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Senior Crypto Threat Analyst - Sanctions

Elliptic · Washington, D.C. · Remote

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About Elliptic

Blockchain analytics for financial crime risk management and compliance across crypto and digital assets. Innovate with confidence. Backed by SoftBank VF.

About the role

Serve as the go-to SME on global sanctions regimes, applying your expertise independently to resolve complex analytical questions and produce reliable outputs without requiring senior oversight on domain-level judgements. Own and document a comprehensive coverage framework for global sanctions designation regimes.

What they're looking for

  • Significant professional experience as an intelligence analyst, investigator, or compliance specialist in sanctions compliance, financial crime, law enforcement, or the crypto industry
  • Demonstrated, independent subject matter expertise in global sanctions regimes, including practical knowledge of OFAC, UK, EU, and UN frameworks and the operational distinctions between autonomous designating authorities and supranational regimes
  • Experience designing or improving monitoring and alerting frameworks, triage processes, or investigation playbooks in a compliance or intelligence context
  • Proven ability to identify systemic coverage risks and drive durable remediation, including process improvement and automation planning
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of producing high-quality, stakeholder-ready outputs independently and to deadline
  • Proficiency with blockchain analytics tools, open-source intelligence (OSINT), corporate registries, and adverse media sources
More about this role

Do you want to be at the forefront of combating crypto-enabled sanctions evasion? Are you excited about leading the intelligence research that helps financial institutions and governments disrupt illicit financial networks? Are you looking for a values-led company that trusts you to own your domain and make a real impact?

Join Elliptic's Intelligence team as the go-to subject matter expert (SME) on cryptoasset sanctions. Sitting at Senior level, you will own Elliptic's end-to-end coverage of sanctioned entities, jurisdictions, and evasion typologies, and translate that expertise into high-quality analytical outputs, scalable monitoring processes, and clear internal and external communications.

Your work will directly strengthen the intelligence dataset that underpins our products, helping hundreds of financial institutions, exchanges, and government agencies take defensible sanctions-compliance decisions every day.

You will coach and collaborate with colleagues across the Intelligence function, contribute to cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams, and represent Elliptic's capabilities to clients, regulators, and industry partners.

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