Quality Assurance Director, Legal & Compliance (Crypto)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company

A cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform serving users across more than 200 countries and regions, with services spanning trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3.

What you will do

• Own compliance quality assurance across the legal and compliance department.
• Set QA standards, review methodologies, scoring criteria, escalation standards, governance processes, and reporting mechanisms.
• Conduct hands-on reviews of compliance cases, decisions, controls, and processes.
• Oversee and calibrate existing QA resources to ensure consistent review standards.
• Build a broader compliance assurance capability beyond current local QA activities.
• Identify recurring quality gaps, control weaknesses, process failures, and execution risks, then recommend process, control, and training improvements.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of experience in compliance, compliance assurance, QA, audit, AML controls, or operational risk within financial services, fintech, payments, or crypto.
• Hands-on experience conducting QA reviews, assurance testing, control reviews, or case quality assessments.
• Strong understanding of compliance operations and control environments, particularly AML, KYC, onboarding, and transaction monitoring.
• Experience designing or maturing QA or assurance frameworks.
• Ability to identify risks independently, challenge decisions, and drive remediation.
• Strong analytical, reporting, stakeholder management, detail-orientation, and execution skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional development support through a Study Growth Fund.
• Regular team-building activities, workshops, and internal events.
• Collaboration with a diverse international team.
• Career advancement and internal mobility opportunities within a rapidly expanding global company.