Web3 Licensing and Regulatory Compliance Specialist

About the role

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering regulatory advisory projects focused on licensing and compliance for digital-asset businesses. Your work will involve translating complex regulatory requirements into practical governance and operational controls, ensuring clients are well-prepared for regulatory scrutiny.

You will collaborate with various teams within Certik, leveraging their expertise in cybersecurity and compliance to enhance tools and workflows. Success in this position will depend on your ability to manage projects effectively, communicate findings clearly, and adapt to the evolving regulatory landscape in priority jurisdictions.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $75,000 to $125,000, reflecting the expertise required for the role.

Skills that matter here

• Regulatory compliance: This role requires hands-on experience in regulatory compliance specifically for digital-asset businesses.
• Web3 knowledge: A practical understanding of blockchain technology and digital-asset business models is essential.
• Communication: Strong written and spoken English skills are necessary for effective collaboration with clients and regulators.

Who this role suits

• You have a background in regulatory compliance or legal operations within the digital-asset sector.
• You thrive in remote work environments and can effectively manage your time to align with CET and CEST business hours.
• You are detail-oriented and capable of producing clear documentation and reports.
• You have strong interpersonal skills, enabling you to work collaboratively with diverse teams and stakeholders.

From the employer

Responsibilities

• Deliver Web3 regulatory advisory projects, including licensing and authorisation readiness, gap assessments, compliance reviews, and implementation support for CASPs, VASPs, token issuers, and other digital-asset businesses.
• Help clients translate regulatory requirements into practical governance, AML and CFT, cybersecurity, technology, and operational controls, drawing on CertiK's wider expertise.
• Support application-related work by coordinating key materials, evidence, stakeholders, and responses to regulators, particularly for European Union and United Arab Emirates processes.
• Present clear findings and recommendations in reports and workshops, and manage delivery across agreed scope, timelines, and follow-up actions.
• Monitor and analyse Web3 regulation and supervisory expectations across priority jurisdictions, with particular attention to the European Union and the United Arab Emirates.
• Turn regulatory research and client experience into reusable methods, templates, control mappings, knowledge materials, and new or updated regulatory service offerings.
• Work with CertiK's cybersecurity, AML, product, and engineering teams to develop and improve compliance tools and workflows, including requirements definition, regulatory content, and testing.
• Use market developments and client feedback to identify opportunities to improve our tools and services and make delivery more consistent and scalable.

Requirements

• Strong match: Hands-on experience supporting a Web3 licensing or authorisation process for a CASP, VASP, token issuer, or similar digital-asset business. Direct application experience under MiCA, VARA, ADGM FSRA, DFSA, or another European Union or United Arab Emirates regime is especially valuable.
• Experience: Two to four years in digital-asset regulatory compliance, financial-services licensing, legal or compliance operations, consulting, or a related role.
• Web3 knowledge: Practical understanding of blockchain networks, wallets, custody, exchanges, transfers, token issuance, stablecoins, and common digital-asset business models.
• Regulatory knowledge: Working knowledge of governance, operational risk, consumer protection, technology, cybersecurity, and/or AML requirements relevant to digital-asset firms.
• Writing and delivery: Ability to interpret regulation, map obligations to controls, produce clear documentation, and coordinate contributors, evidence, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Communication and collaboration: Professional written and spoken English and the ability to work with clients, subject-matter experts, senior management, and regulators in a distributed team with reliable overlap with CET and CEST business hours.
• Additional qualifications: A relevant legal, compliance, risk, accounting, or information-security qualification or certification, or additional European or Middle Eastern language skills, is an advantage.

What We Offer

• Remote work: Work remotely from Europe or a nearby time zone, with regular overlap with European business hours.
• Competitive compensation: A competitive base salary plus equity or token options where applicable.
• Professional growth: Direct exposure to EU, UAE, and global digital-asset authorisation projects, with support to deepen your Web3 regulatory expertise.