Head of Sanctions (Crypto Compliance)

Location: Singapore, United Arab Emirates, or United Kingdom. Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement; availability may vary depending on the role and team.

Company

Binance operates a global blockchain ecosystem providing cryptocurrency trading, finance, payments, institutional services, education, and other digital-asset products.

What you will do

• Lead the end-to-end investigations lifecycle from alert intake and referrals through evidence gathering, disposition, and documented closure.
• Apply sanctions regimes operationally, including blocking, rejection, and reporting obligations.
• Manage triage, prioritization, SLAs, aging, throughput, and quality metrics.
• Lead lookbacks, remediation, backlog clearance, root cause analysis, and improvements to screening logic and procedures.
• Provide sanctions and CTF investigation expertise, quality assurance, findings, and recommendations across Compliance and Binance.
• Build and manage the investigations team through hiring, capacity planning, training, accreditation, calibration, and investigator development.

Requirements

• 10+ years of proven experience in international compliance or financial crime compliance.
• Knowledge of cryptocurrency and financial institution businesses, processes, procedures, and systems.
• Fluency in English is required to coordinate with overseas partners and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills, sound judgement, and the ability to work across functional and geographic lines.
• Learning agility with a critical and innovative mindset.
• Natural authority and the ability to inspire, motivate, and support others.
• People-focused approach with strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex sanctions and CTF risk-management requirements clearly.
• Adherence to Binance's values.

Nice to have

• ACAMS or ACFCS certification.
• Additional languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement, subject to the nature of the role and team.
• Flat, user-centric global organization with collaboration across world-class talent.
• Autonomy in challenging, fast-paced, and innovative work.
• Career growth and continuous learning opportunities.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.