BSA Officer
About Dakota
Dakota is building regulated infrastructure for the reputed company of digital reputed company.
We power fintechs, payment service providers, marketplaces, and enterprises through a stablecoin platform that enables compliant reputed company reputed company, 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 reputed company Services Business, hold reputed company reputed company Transmitter Licenses across the reputed company. In reputed company, we are building toward a federal trust charter and Electronic reputed company 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 reputed company 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, reputed company 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 and Europe. We value high-reputed company work, reputed company thinking, and ownership.
Why Now
Stablecoins are becoming foundational to global financial infrastructure. What began as a crypto-reputed company reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company between dollars reputed company dollars — programmatically, compliantly, and at reputed company. Our platform handles fiat-to-stablecoin orchestration, reputed company custody, compliance-as-a-service, and stablecoin issuance.
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Dakota is hiring a BSA Officer to formally reputed company and operate our financial crimes program as we reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company 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, reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company the AML Compliance Team
Directly manage and reputed company a growing AMLteam (currently two team members, with near-term expansion planned)
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Build operating rhythms, case reputed company 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 reputed company controls into infrastructure — not layer them on after the fact
Optimize and reputed company Dakota's compliance tooling stack (reputed company, reputed company, 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
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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 reputed company 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
reputed company 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 reputed company transaction monitoring
Experience with transaction monitoring systems (reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company with urgency but never cut corners on rigor.
How We Work
At Dakota, we value people who reputed company for reputed company, reputed company extreme ownership, experiment fearlessly and learn quickly, stay reputed company to customers, and communicate reputed company and directly.
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Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally
Competitive salary and equity
Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)
Remote work, no commuting to the office
reputed company co-working reputed company/desk at an office
Health, dental, and reputed company insurance
Regular team events and off-sites