About Uphold Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking, and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services, and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries. Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone. To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com. The Opportunity: Uphold is looking for an experienced compliance officer to join our growing European Compliance team as the deputy MLRO. This is an exciting opportunity to help build out our regulatory compliance program, supporting our local UK MLRO as well as the global CCO and wider teams. Primary Responsibilities: Act as a deputy to the MLRO: Support the MLRO to deliver their responsibilities as regards the Money Laundering regulations. This means work on complex case investigations, strategic projects and coordinate cross-departmental initiatives. Crypto experience is essential. Project management: Respond to regulatory initiatives by providing leadership and direction for new projects to adhere to our obligations, specifically Financial Promotions and Travel Rule. Support long-term strategy planning and enhance departmental governance framework and ensuring policies and procedures remain fit for purpose. Creating and implementing operational policies around reporting suspicious activity, filing reports, returning funds to customers. Brief senior management: prepare board reports, MLRO reports, write papers for internal governance to effect change to the control framework to respond better to risks or improve the performance of the function, and maintain monthly management information. Strategic insight: Be a resource for knowledge and understanding internally in order to make good judgements around regulatory obligations, audits, regulatory engagement, compliance risks and business development. Ensure team success: Support team managers and have an oversight role for the front line operational staff involved with on-boarding new customers and ongoing account monitoring of crypto and fiat activity. Required qualifications: Minimum 6-8 years experience working in financial crime, crypto, compliance or financial regulation. Leadership experience - preferably at least 3 years. Specific experience in undertaking financial crime prevention (AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, investigations, transaction monitoring) and law enforcement liaison Project management experience, ideally in the compliance space Experience writing policy papers and reports, managing committees and supporting senior leaders’ work Credible stakeholder and regulator engagement skills, especially with the NCA or national law enforcement agencies Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously on tight deadlines Ability to work independently with a high level of responsibility Excellent verbal and written communication skills Experience designing/documenting policies, procedures and presentations Fluent written and oral English skills Bonus if you have: Previous experience working at a fintech company or neobank or registered cryptoasset firm. Professional qualifications such as ACAMS, ICA etc. Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business. What we offer: Innovation and Impact : Contribute to pioneering projects in a dynamic and challenging environment. Competitive Compensation : Stock options, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits on top of a competitive salary. Strong Company Culture : Thrive in a supportive, collegiate environment with values of integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence. Global Collaboration : Participate in regular updates, strategy sessions, and networking opportunities across the group. Development Opportunities : Access training and mentorship programs. Flexibility : Enjoy options to work from home, other locations, or adjust your hours. Inclusive Environment : Value and respect diverse perspectives. Benefits: Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance. Home office stipend for a productive setup. Generous PTO, healthcare, and employee assistance programs. Engaging events and celebrations. Well-stocked office kitchen with a foodie culture. Join us to grow, innovate, and contribute meaningfully. Be part of our talented team! Visit our careers page for more exciting opportunities, if this role isn’t the perfect fit. EEOC Employer We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes. Difference makes us stronger and better - together.