Governance & Oversight Program Manager - Remote

About the Role

We are hiring a Governance & Oversight Program Manager to join our team at Paxos, where we are revolutionizing the financial infrastructure. As a Governance & Oversight Program Manager remote, you will lead critical compliance and regulatory initiatives across our organization, ensuring program execution while translating complex compliance and regulatory requirements into actionable plans.

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end cross-functional compliance enhancement and remediation initiatives, aligning compliance, legal, product, and engineering teams to execute initiatives effectively.
• Translate complex regulatory and compliance requirements into clear action plans and technical solutions.
• Manage remediation efforts and regulatory compliance outcomes, ensuring sustainable, defensible, and documented results.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and lead meaningful process and control improvements to enhance program effectiveness and scalability.
• Apply critical thinking to evaluate potential solutions for compliance issues, process enhancements, and regulatory remediation.
• Drive accountability across stakeholders, ensuring ownership, follow-through, and timely delivery of assigned responsibilities.
• Anticipate emerging risks, evolving regulatory expectations, and potential execution challenges, escalating with mitigation strategies as needed.
• Establish and uphold best-in-class organizational and documentation practices to support governance, audit readiness, and long-term scalability.
• Utilize data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Looker) to validate, test, and improve compliance processes and controls.

Requirements

• Experience as part of a compliance team with a focus on process improvement, issue management, and regulatory examination readiness.
• Demonstrated expertise in AML, sanctions, and fraud compliance workflows.
• Strong cross-functional program management and technical project coordination skills.
• Thorough understanding of regulatory requirements, documentation standards, audit and exam process, and compliance tooling.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex compliance and technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with compliance tooling platforms such as AML monitoring systems, sanctions screening tools, case management solutions, and blockchain technology tools (Chainalysis, Elliptic).
• Background in regulated cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, or FinTech companies.
• Experience working globally and within a number of regulatory frameworks (e.g., US, EU, Singapore, South America).
• Basic experience in SQL within modern data warehouse environments (Snowflake, Looker, etc.) and experience with Python for data analysis, automation, and building scalable applications.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary range of $115,900 to $136,400 per year.
• Remote work flexibility that allows you to work from anywhere.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development in the fast-paced crypto industry.
• A diverse and inclusive work environment that values different perspectives.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.