Head of Marketing Compliance

The role

This senior individual-contributor role focuses on the day-to-day review of new products, material product changes, and existing product enhancements. You will deliver risk-based product compliance assessments to protect the firm's regulatory positioning. You will act as a compliance partner to Product and Engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Own and deliver day-to-day compliance reviews of new products, features, market expansions and material changes.
• Review product requirements, technical documentation, user journeys, onboarding flows, trading or transaction mechanics, reward structures, disclosures and operational processes.
• Apply a risk-based waterfall to distinguish legal blockers from risks addressed through controls.
• Conduct and document product compliance risk assessments covering AML/CFT, sanctions, KYC, consumer protection, and more.
• Produce clear, concise and solutions-based compliance recommendations.
• Work with Product, Engineering, Legal, Risk, Central Compliance and local Compliance teams.
• Maintain complete and accurate documentation and audit trails for product reviews.
• Support post-launch monitoring, control testing and assurance.
• Promote a compliance-by-design culture and deliver targeted training to stakeholders.
• Support special projects and priority product launches.

Required qualifications

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in Compliance, Legal or Risk within financial services, fintech, payments or the cryptocurrency industry.
• Bachelor's degree in law, finance, business, economics, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Significant hands-on experience in product compliance, regulatory advisory or product risk assessment.
• Strong understanding of the digital-asset industry and the products offered by crypto platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant regulatory and compliance requirements, including licensing, AML/CFT, sanctions, KYC, consumer protection, financial promotions and trading or market-conduct requi
• Ability to analyze products involving significant complexity and risk and translate regulatory requirements into practical product requirements and controls.
• Experience in and demonstrated success in leveraging AI-enabled technology to maintain risk assessment standards.
• Excellent risk judgment and the ability to balance compliance rigor with a pragmatic, risk-based approach.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver repeatable product compliance solutions, controls and review processes.
• Strong project-management and execution skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Direct product compliance or regulatory advisory experience at a crypto exchange, fintech or technology-led financial-services company.
• Experience supporting multi-jurisdictional product launches and applying regulatory requirements across the United States, European Union, Middle East or Asia-Pacific
• Practical knowledge of CeFi trading products, including spot, derivatives, leverage, custody, institutional products and OTC flows
• Familiarity with Web3 products, blockchain technology, smart contracts, DeFi protocols and digital-asset transaction flows.
• Experience developing compliance risk-assessment frameworks, controls, and key risk indicators

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Various team building programs and company events
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
• Performance bonus and long-term incentives may be provided

About the company

OKX is a leading crypto exchange and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications. The company is united by core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done.