Head of Compliance
Nxos · UAE on-site or remote · Senior
About the role
Own compliance at Nxos, from onboarding decisions and transaction monitoring to policy and our relationship with regulators. About Nxos Nxos moves money between fiat and stablecoins for businesses that work across borders: traders, payment companies, holding structures and founders in APAC, the GCC and LATAM. We are registered with FINTRAC in Canada, are preparing our ADGM licence, and are backed by tier-1 crypto and regional VCs. We are a small, driven team that thrives in complex and dynamic environments. People who join Nxos gain real ownership and meaningful equity. In return we expect drive, hunger, and the will to grow personally. We use best-in-class AI systems to scale operations while raising quality, not trading it off. The role You will own compliance at Nxos, from onboarding decisions and transaction monitoring to policy and our relationship with regulators. You will also own the AI compliance engine we are building in-house, which researches applicants, drafts due diligence questions and decision documents, and runs our monitoring rules. Your job is to make it sharper, keep it honest, and run the function through it. In turn, you get all the software and AI resources you need to work at the highest level and shape a modern compliance function. What you will do 1. Review and decide on onboarding files, from simple KYC to complex corporate structures in high-risk corridors 2. Run and tune transaction monitoring for fiat and on-chain flows: rules, alerts, Travel Rule, wallet screening 3. Shape the AI compliance engine with our engineers: what it checks, how it reasons, where a human must decide 4. Own our policies and keep them current, including the build-out for ADGM 5. Be the person regulators, banking partners and auditors talk to How we work Few meetings, written decisions, a lot of trust. You get context, not instructions, and the room to change how things are done. Location: UAE on-site or remote. Contract: full-time. Equity: real ownership, meaningful equity. Licences: FINTRAC MSB (Canada), ADGM in preparation. How to apply Send a short note on why this role, and a recent decision you are proud of, to wassily@nxos.io. Full posting at https://nxos.io/careers/compliance-manager
Requirements
5 to 10 years or more in compliance, with real exposure to virtual assets and cross-border payments A practical feel for the businesses we serve: trading companies, payment providers, free zone funds, and the markets they operate in Sound judgement: you know when a file needs more questions and when it is fine as it is Curiosity about AI tooling, and the drive to build with it rather than just use it You take ownership, write clearly, and are comfortable deciding without a manual MLRO experience, and being based in the UAE, are a plus