What Is a Crypto Compliance Officer / Analyst?

Compliance roles keep a crypto business inside the regulatory lines that increasingly define the industry: KYC and AML programs, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, licensing and regulator relationships, and the policies that let an exchange or wallet operate across jurisdictions. As companies mature this function grows fastest on the operations side of the board.

Live demand right now

ChainJobs currently lists 125 live roles whose title matches this role, 22 of them posted in the last seven days, and 39 (31%) remote. By function they fall mostly into Operations 99 · Engineering 17 · Product 5. Every count comes from the employer's own careers page, re-verified daily.

What it pays

Among the 27 live matching roles with an employer-published USD annual band, the median midpoint is $166k, and the middle half of bands runs $100k–$205k. The top of the current market, from the employers' own listings:

• Engineering Manager - Identity, Compliance & Risk (NYC / MIA) at Crossmint — $250k–280k
• Tech Governance - Security Compliance & Governance Engineer (Mandarin Bilingual Required) at OKX — $224k–268k
• Manager Engineering, Compliance Core at Chainalysis — $220k–250k

Who is hiring for it

What the role is actually called

The most common titles on live listings that match this role: Senior Compliance Analyst 4 · Compliance Officer 4 · Compliance 4 · MLRO & Compliance Officer, UAE 4 · Senior AML Specialist, KYB 3 · Compliance Analyst 3. Titles vary by company; the job titles reference ranks every common title on the board.

Skills and the path in

Traditional compliance or financial-crime experience transfers directly; what must be added is the domain — on-chain analytics, travel-rule mechanics, the specifics of digital-asset regulation in the relevant jurisdictions. Certifications (CAMS and similar) are common. Exchanges and custodians hire the most.

Open roles

• Head of Consumer and Lending Compliance at Gemini — $150k–215k
• Manager Engineering, Compliance Core at Chainalysis — $220k–250k
• Compliance Associate - Bank Sponsorship & Product Expansion at Rain — $80k–120k
• Tech Governance - Security Compliance & Governance Engineer (Mandarin Bilingual Required) at OKX — $224k–268k
• Compliance - AML Manager at Crypto.com — $120k–145k
• Senior Product Manager, Compliance & Platform Experience at Paxos — $203k–233k

Full live set: the related jobs page, or the board with the search term above. For candidates, the how to get a crypto job guide covers the process; for employers, the hiring guides cover what this market costs and how to write the listing.

Role matching is by job title (word-boundary patterns), so counts are indicative of the role, not exhaustive. Figures computed from ChainJobs' live board on 2026-09-16; salary only from employer-published bands. How we source data →