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About the Role
Aave Labs is seeking a VP, Compliance to lead the compliance function globally, providing strategic leadership across regulated and unregulated entities. This senior leadership role involves partnering with various departments to ensure growth and innovation within a strong compliance framework, overseeing regulatory risk, and acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and Boards.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Group compliance strategy and framework across products, entities, and jurisdictions, covering both regulated and unregulated activities.
- Oversee the compliance frameworks of the Group’s regulated entities and provide proportionate compliance oversight and advice across the wider unregulated business.
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and relevant Boards on compliance, regulatory risk, and emerging issues.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Commercial teams to embed regulatory requirements into new products, features, partnerships, and customer journeys.
- Lead the assessment of regulatory implications associated with new products, markets, business models, and strategic initiatives.
- Own and continuously develop the Group compliance programme, including policies, risk assessments, monitoring and testing, regulatory reporting, governance, remediation, and management information.
- Oversee financial crime compliance across the Group, ensuring effective frameworks for AML/CTF, sanctions, customer risk, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, and other relevant financial crime risks.
- Maintain effective regulatory relationships and lead engagement with regulators, including regulatory applications, examinations, information requests, and remediation programmes.
- Monitor regulatory developments across key markets and translate changes into clear implications, priorities, and actions for the business.
- Provide clear and effective compliance reporting to executive leadership and relevant Boards.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in Compliance, Financial Crime, Regulatory, or related functions within regulated financial services, fintech, payments, or crypto, including significant experience in senior leadership roles.
- Operated at Group or enterprise level with responsibility spanning multiple products, business lines, regulated entities, or jurisdictions.
- Advised executive leadership and Boards on complex compliance and regulatory matters and comfortable challenging senior stakeholders.
- Significant experience engaging directly with financial services regulators and understanding how to manage regulatory relationships effectively.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks relevant to payments, cryptoassets, and digital financial services, ideally across the UK, EU, and US.
- Experience supporting product development and understanding how to translate regulatory requirements into practical solutions without unnecessarily slowing down innovation.
- Ability to operate strategically while remaining close enough to the detail to work through complex or high-risk matters.
- Experience building and scaling compliance programmes, teams, and infrastructure within a growing international organisation.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where regulation and business priorities evolve quickly.
- Able to satisfy applicable FCA fitness and propriety requirements and comfortable holding individual regulatory responsibilities in respect of UK regulated businesses, including registration as an EMD and MLR Individual.
Skills
- Compliance
- Financial Crime
- Regulatory
- Leadership
- AML/CTF
- Sanctions
- Payments
- Cryptoassets
- Digital financial services
- Regulatory frameworks (UK, EU, US)
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- 12+ years
About the Company
- Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally?
- We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech.
- Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally.
- We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.
- We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it.
- We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable.
- We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.