Role in brief
Binance is hiring a Business Compliance Specialist to ensure product offerings meet global regulatory standards. This role involves collaborating with product and compliance teams to launch new features and products in a compliant manner. It's ideal for a compliance professional with experience in crypto or fintech who understands how to translate regulations into product requirements.
About the role
This role focuses on ensuring that Binance's digital asset products and services comply with global regulatory requirements. The specialist will manage compliance controls from initial product launch through ongoing maintenance, ensuring that country-specific restrictions are applied. This involves working closely with various internal teams to assess product availability in different markets and to develop regulatory analyses for business expansion.
A key part of the work involves generating compliance plans in collaboration with cross-functional teams, embedding best practices into products, and monitoring regulatory changes. The specialist will also provide guidance to business teams on new regulations and their impact. Success in this role means efficiently supporting business objectives while maintaining a strong compliance posture across all product offerings.
The role requires building strong relationships across the business to facilitate effective collaboration and communication. The specialist will track global regulatory developments impacting product offerings and translate these into clear, actionable guidance for stakeholders. This position also offers the opportunity to assist with other products, ensuring broad coverage and team contingency.
The annual salary for this position ranges from $68,000 to $112,000.
Skills that matter here
- Compliance/Regulatory Advisory: This role requires providing compliance guidance for product launches within the crypto, fintech, or financial services sectors.
- Product/Engineering/Operations collaboration: The specialist will work with these teams to ensure compliant product launches, including requirements definition, control implementation, and testing.
- Country/jurisdiction product restriction frameworks: Experience is needed in building or operating systems for product eligibility, geofencing, and other market-specific limitations.
- Crypto exchange products: An understanding of various crypto products, including custody solutions, wallets, and on-chain/off-chain flows, is necessary.
- Regulatory obligations translation: The role involves converting regulatory requirements into practical product specifications, user journeys, and control points.
- Stakeholder management: Effective communication and relationship-building skills are essential for working with diverse internal teams and promoting the compliance function.
Who this role suits
- Someone with at least five years of experience in compliance, particularly in a global or cross-border context.
- A professional who can independently manage multiple projects, prioritizing based on regulatory risk and business needs.
- An individual who understands the crypto landscape and current regulatory narratives, with an interest in Web3.
- A person who can clearly translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable product and operational controls.
From the employer
- Provide end-to-end compliance control coverage for business unit product launches, new features, maintenance, and support to implement country product restrictions within the assigned product portfolio.
- Engaging with key stakeholders to assess and, where feasible, enable product availability in markets where offerings are currently limited.
- Proactively identify business opportunities for the assigned product portfolio, creating documented regulatory analysis and required controls for business expansion.
- Generate compliance plans with joint efforts from cross functions to ensure it is managed in accordance with the BU’s objectives, and that best practices are embedded in the products and services.
- Work closely with product teams, global compliance teams and local/regional PoCs and MLROs to ensure controls are in place, testing is complete and the business can launch on time and in line with regulatory requirements.
- Monitor regulatory changes, assess impact to products and controls, coordinate implementation, and deliver advisory and guidance to relevant business teams as needed.
- Build strong and effective relationships across the business to promote a positive image of the Business Compliance Team and efficiently support and deliver work activities.
- Track and analyze global regulatory developments affecting product offerings, and communicate clear, actionable guidance to stakeholders.
- Assist the team with other products, if required, to ensure contingency and global coverage.
- 5+ years in Compliance/Regulatory Advisory supporting product launches in crypto, fintech, broker-dealer, exchange, derivatives venue, asset manager, payments, or bank environment (global/cross-border strongly preferred).
- Proven experience partnering with Product/Engineering/Operations to deliver compliant launches (requirements, controls, testing, go-live).
- Experience building or operating country/jurisdiction product restriction frameworks (eligibility, geofencing, disclosures, leverage limits, KYC/AML gating, marketing constraints).
- Understanding of crypto exchange products (custody vs non-custody, wallets, on-chain vs off-chain flows, listing lifecycle, stablecoins, DeFi/Web3 exposure).
- Ability to translate regulatory obligations into product requirements (user journeys, control points, monitoring, alerts, audit trails).
- Up to date knowledge of regulatory regimes and recent regulatory developments (eg. MICA).
- Excellent adaptability, communication skills and stakeholder management.
- Demonstrated experience working independently and prioritizing multiple projects based on regulatory risk and business needs.
- An interest in Web3 and understanding of current regulatory narratives.
- Practical experience with AI solutions implementations for efficiency and controls preferred.
- Shape the future with the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem.
- Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
- Tackle unique, fast-paced projects with autonomy in an innovative environment.
- Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
- Competitive salary and company benefits.
- Work-from-home arrangement (the arrangement may vary depending on the work nature of the business team).
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a work-from-home arrangement, though specific arrangements may vary based on the business team's needs.
What level of experience is required for this position?
Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in compliance or regulatory advisory, specifically supporting product launches.
How does this role contribute to product development?
The specialist will work with product teams to ensure new features and launches are compliant, providing regulatory analysis and implementing necessary controls.