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About the Role
The Financial Crimes (FinCrimes) Sanctions team protects Robinhood and its customers by identifying, investigating, and mitigating sanctions-related risks. As a Sanctions Crypto Investigator, you will investigate potential sanctions exposure associated with cryptocurrency transactions, digital asset wallets, and customer activity using blockchain analytics and investigative tools.
Responsibilities
- Conduct thorough investigations of cryptocurrency-related sanctions alerts, including customer screening matches, deposits, withdrawals, wallet addresses, and blockchain transactions.
- Leverage blockchain analytics tools to evaluate direct and indirect sanctions exposure, trace transaction activity, and identify potential sanctions evasion typologies.
- Review and disposition potential matches against OFAC and other applicable sanctions lists, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-documented investigative decisions.
- Identify and escalate potential sanctions violations, including transactions or assets that may require blocking, rejecting, or additional regulatory review.
- Prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive investigative narratives, supporting documentation, and escalation recommendations.
- Monitor emerging cryptocurrency sanctions risks, regulatory developments, and illicit finance typologies to support ongoing risk identification and mitigation.
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, Engineering, Product, and other FinCrimes teams to resolve complex investigations and enhance sanctions screening capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to improve investigative workflows, screening effectiveness, operational efficiency, and automation.
- Assist with regulatory examinations, internal and external audits, quality assurance reviews, and management reporting.
- Maintain adherence to established procedures, regulatory requirements, and internal service-level expectations while managing investigative workloads.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in financial crimes, sanctions investigations, AML compliance, or a related field within financial services, fintech, cryptocurrency, or another regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience investigating cryptocurrency transactions and assessing financial crimes or sanctions-related risks.
- Working knowledge of blockchain technology, digital asset transactions, wallet addresses, and cryptocurrency transaction flows.
- Experience using blockchain analytics tools such as TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic, or comparable platforms.
- Strong understanding of OFAC sanctions regulations, sanctions screening requirements, and common sanctions evasion methodologies.
- Experience conducting complex investigations, evaluating potential true positive matches, and preparing clear, defensible investigative documentation.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to assess complex information and make sound, risk-based decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate investigative findings and recommendations effectively.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain a high degree of accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
- A collaborative mindset and willingness to partner across teams to solve problems and improve existing processes.
- High standards of integrity, professionalism, and discretion when handling confidential or sensitive information.
Skills
- Blockchain analytics
- TRM Labs
- Chainalysis
- Elliptic
- OFAC sanctions regulations
- Sanctions screening
- AML compliance
- Cryptocurrency transactions
- Digital asset wallets
- Risk assessment
- Investigative documentation
- Analytical skills
- Critical-thinking
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Location
- Denver, CO
- Westlake, TX
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC): $94,000—$110,000 USD
- Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL): $82,000—$97,000 USD
- Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL): $73,000—$86,000 USD
Benefits
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact
- Bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building
- Lifestyle wallet
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
About the Company
- Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all.
- We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems.
- Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers.
- We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do.
Equal Opportunity
- Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws.
- Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best.