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About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure. As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact.

The Department: Compliance

Compliance at Gemini is a team dedicated to managing the next generation of financial crime prevention in a complex and evolving regulatory environment. We are a diverse group of technology, legal, and operational professionals who develop new approaches to solving classic problems using cutting edge tools and processes.

The Role: Lead, Technical Compliance
In this role, you will work with a team of experienced compliance professionals responsible for critical functions within the Compliance and AML/BSA/Sanctions program. This individual will be the key person responsible for helping to modernize the Compliance program through AI and automation initiatives, including the design and implementation of agentic AI workflows and solutions that leverage AI models. The role will ensure these solutions are scalable, secure, auditable, appropriately governed, and aligned with regulatory and business requirements. In addition, you will have responsibilities including, but not limited to, assessing transaction monitoring data ingestion, development and tuning of transaction monitoring scenarios, development of customer risk scoring models, enhancing Sanctions controls, reviewing name and transaction screening settings, development of reports to present to senior management, and other critical components/development of the compliance program that may arise from time to time. This position will have frequent interaction with firm senior management, third party vendors/auditors, and multiple departments within Gemini’s organization. Gemini’s Compliance team is constantly evolving and developing new operations and controls. In this role, you will contribute to that development by rolling up your sleeves and building the future of money, while being an integral part of a best-in-class compliance department.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design, development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of AI-enabled automation and agentic AI workflows across the Compliance Program.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI models, machine learning, and automation to improve the effectiveness, scalability, consistency, and efficiency of compliance processes and controls.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine their suitability for compliance applications based on business value, risk, explainability, and implementation complexity.
- Lead development and maintenance of Gemini’s transaction monitoring system, including data ingestion, development of new transaction monitoring scenarios, and optimization of transaction monitoring scenarios.
- Support and maintain a customer risk scoring model that reflects Gemini’s risk-based approach and will drive periodic reviews and transaction monitoring (leading to effective customer segmentation).
- Lead in enhancing sanctions controls, procedures, and tuning of thresholds. Maintain sanctions screening tool to stay up-to-date with list updates and relevant regulatory changes.
- Build real-time data and reporting solutions using Python or SQL that automate the capture of key management information and reporting in a scalable, efficient, and reliable manner.
- Integrate and maintain external tools to enhance the Compliance Program.
- Assist in developing enhancements to Gemini’s quantitative approach to its enterprise-wide AML/BSA risk assessment.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, project managers, and analysts to deliver insights to Compliance.
- Partner with Compliance, Engineering, Product, Data, Legal, and Information Security teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable AI and technology solutions.
- Establish appropriate governance and controls for AI-enabled solutions, including testing, validation, human oversight, data protection, auditability, documentation, and ongoing performance monitoring.
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of AI and automation solutions, from requirements gathering and prototyping through implementation, production monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications:

- BA/BS degree or international equivalent.
- 7+ years of relevant work experience with compliance technology and data analysis within the financial services, digital asset and/or management consulting spaces.
- Advanced skills with Python and SQL are a must.
- Experience in Databricks and Pyspark is good to have.
- Experience designing, developing, or implementing AI-enabled automation, agentic AI workflows, or other advanced technology solutions.
- Experience leveraging AI models and data-driven technologies to solve complex business or operational problems.
- Ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical requirements, solution designs, and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Understanding of the software-development lifecycle, including testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Comfort in a technology-forward company and facility with computer and web-based applications, including Microsoft Office, case management systems, and web-based databases.
- Experienced in working collaboratively across different teams and departments.
- Strong technical and clear business communication style.
- Authorization to work in the United States and fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Understanding of or familiarity with regulatory expectations and industry standards in relation to AML/BSA/Sanctions regulations.
- Exposure to blockchain tracing/analytics tools or blockchain concepts.
- Adaptability to an ever-changing environment and the capability to articulate thorough analysis to stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience with generative AI, large language models, agentic workflows, prompt and context design, workflow orchestration, or AI-model evaluation.
- Familiarity with responsible-AI principles and AI governance, including explainability, human oversight, privacy, security, auditability, and model-performance monitoring.
- Experience implementing AI or automation solutions within financial services, compliance, risk management, or another regulated environment.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools or coding agents to support prototyping, testing, documentation, and solution delivery.

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:
- Competitive starting pay
- A discretionary annual bonus
- Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
- Comprehensive health plans
- 401K with company matching
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible time off

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $140,000 - $200,000 in the State of New York. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce. All employees, however, are required to onboard in-person at one of our office locations.

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.