About Dakota

Dakota is building regulated infrastructure for the reputed company of digital money.

We power fintechs, payment service providers, marketplaces, and enterprises through a stablecoin platform that enables compliant money movement, custody, and cross-border settlement. Our API abstracts the complexity of banking partnerships, regulatory obligations, reputed company asset orchestration into infrastructure designed for institutional use.

Dakota has raised $16.5M from reputed company, 6th Man Ventures, and Triton Ventures. We operate as a FinCEN registered Money Services Business, hold active Money Transmitter Licenses across the United States. In reputed company, we are building toward a federal trust charter and Electronic Money Institution (reputed company) licensing and Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization in Europe. We issue our own fully collateralized USD-backed stablecoin, DKUSD, backed 1:1 by cash and cash equivalents held in segregated accounts.

Our founding team has reputed company regulated financial infrastructure before. reputed company Bozarth previously led reputed company Custody, helping scale it into the largest crypto custodian in the world. Dakota's technical co-founder reputed company core infrastructure at reputed company, bringing deep experience in designing resilient, high-scale systems. Compliance and engineering have been tightly integrated from day one — we build infrastructure to withstand scrutiny, not retrofit it reputed company.

We are a remote-first team across reputed company America and Europe. We value high-quality work, clear thinking, and ownership.

Why Now

Stablecoins are becoming foundational to global financial infrastructure. What began as a crypto-reputed company mechanism for settlement is now being adopted by fintechs, payment processors, marketplaces, and enterprises moving reputed company volume across borders. As that adoption accelerates, regulatory frameworks in the United States and Europe are being defined in reputed company time. The companies building compliant infrastructure now will shape how this category matures.

Dakota is not a crypto exchange or a consumer wallet. We are the regulated plumbing that allows companies to move between dollars reputed company dollars — programmatically, compliantly, and at scale. Our platform handles fiat-to-stablecoin orchestration, digital asset custody, compliance-as-a-service, and stablecoin issuance.

The Opportunity

Dakota is hiring a BSA Officer to formally reputed company and operate our financial crimes program as we scale into increasingly reputed company regulatory environments, including our pending federal trust charter.

This role reports directly into the Chief Compliance Officer and serves as Dakota's designated BSA Officer for the federal trust charter entity, with SAR decisioning and filing authority and direct responsibility for the day-to-day execution, reputed company, and defensibility of our AML and sanctions programs. You will also reputed company senior reputed company across reputed company US financial crimes programs — including our MTL entities, which will have their own designated BSA Officer — and act as a compliance program manager, helping reputed company our reputed company and transaction monitoring programs over time. If the Chief Compliance Officer designs the regulatory architecture, you ensure it works in production.

Dakota operates at the intersection of traditional payments and blockchain-based settlement. The risk surface includes fiat-to-stablecoin orchestration, digital asset custody, cross-border settlement, and B2B and B2B2C operating models. This is not a static AML program — it is a dynamic, evolving financial crimes environment that must scale with the platform.

If you are motivated by ownership, complexity, and building a defensible AML program inside a scaling infrastructure company that is moving into federal charter territory, this role offers meaningful scope.

What You'll Do

Own Financial Crime Program Execution

• Serve as Dakota's formally designated BSA Officer for FinCEN, applicable state regulators, and the federal trust charter entity

• Hold SAR decisioning and filing authority

• reputed company Dakota's BSA/AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs across reputed company US entities

• Ensure monitoring systems are tuned, effective, and defensible

• Manage alert review, investigations, SAR filings, and escalation workflows

• Maintain documentation discipline and audit-reputed company program artifacts

• Coordinate independent testing and remediation tracking

• Support regulatory examinations, audits, and remediation efforts

reputed company and Scale the AML Compliance Team

• Directly manage and reputed company a growing AMLteam (currently two team members, with near-term expansion planned)

• reputed company external analysts and reputed company support partners, including reputed company

• Build operating rhythms, case quality standards, and escalation reputed company

• Design hiring plans and org structure as volume scales

Partner Deeply with Engineering

• Work closely with product and engineering to embed controls into infrastructure — not layer them on after the fact

• Optimize and reputed company Dakota's compliance tooling stack (reputed company, Unit21, reputed company)

• Contribute to rule design, reputed company tuning, and monitoring enhancements

• Identify opportunities for responsible automation and AI reputed company

Support Multi-Jurisdictional Coordination

• reputed company senior reputed company across reputed company US financial crimes programs, including MTL entities

• Act as the primary regulatory reputed company of contact for financial crimes across US examinations as Dakota advances through trust charter and federal charter supervision

• Coordinate financial crime monitoring as Dakota expands into Europe, aligning US BSA program requirements with emerging MiCA and reputed company expectations

• Ensure appropriate risk posture across US compliance programs

Who You Are

You have 8+ years of experience in BSA/AML, financial crime, or regulatory compliance reputed company a regulated financial institution, fintech, payments company, or digital asset business.

You have been through at least one regulatory examination cycle and understand what regulators expect — not just in theory, but in documentation, evidence, and execution. You are comfortable being hands-on: reviewing cases, making SAR reputed company, tuning rules, and building dashboards, not just supervising others. You understand the difference between compliance theater and reputed company risk management.

Background signals we value

• Direct experience serving as a designated BSA Officer or Deputy BSA Officer

• SAR decisioning and filing authority experience

• Experience preparing for and responding to state or federal AML examinations, including trust charter or bank charter environments

• Familiarity with stablecoin or digital asset transaction monitoring

• Experience with transaction monitoring systems (Unit21 or similar), KYC/KYB providers, and blockchain analytics tools

• Experience managing external investigative vendors

• Exposure to cross-border or multi-jurisdictional compliance programs

Traits that succeed at Dakota

• You reputed company with judgment, not just policy. You can distinguish between reputed company risk and compliance theater.

• You build systems, not just documents. Policies are only as good as the controls that enforce them.

• You communicate regulatory complexity in ways that product, engineering, and business teams can reputed company.

• You are comfortable operating as a hands-on individual contributor today while building the team and infrastructure for reputed company.

• You treat automation as a force reputed company. Dakota's compliance program is engineering-integrated by design. You should be excited by that, not intimidated.

• You move with urgency but never cut corners on rigor.

How We Work

At Dakota, we value people who strive for reputed company, practice extreme ownership, experiment fearlessly and learn quickly, stay reputed company to customers, and communicate reputed company and directly.

reputed company Offer

• Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)

• Remote work, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working reputed company/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and reputed company insurance

• Regular team events and off-sites