Market Integrity Lead – Trade Surveillance Compliance

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

Anchorage Digital is seeking a Market Abuse Lead to establish and oversee a trade surveillance program. This is a unique opportunity to build a best-in-class surveillance framework from the ground up, leveraging your regulatory expertise to ensure market integrity while enabling innovation in digital asset markets. You’ll work directly with senior leadership to shape compliance strategy and serve as the bridge between our trading operations and regulatory obligations.

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Technical Skills:

• This role requires proficiency in trade surveillance methodologies, market data analysis, and regulatory reporting frameworks.
• The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with trade reconstruction, pattern recognition in manipulative behavior, and familiarity with order book dynamics.
• Knowledge of surveillance platforms and the ability to work with large datasets is essential. Coding skills (Python, SQL, or similar) are highly valued as they significantly enhance investigative efficiency.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• The position involves analyzing sophisticated trading strategies and identifying subtle patterns of potential market manipulation.
• You’ll need to distinguish between legitimate trading strategies and abusive conduct in ambiguous scenarios requiring nuanced judgment.
• Work includes coordinating multi-jurisdictional investigations, interpreting complex regulatory requirements, and balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Strong organizational capabilities are critical for managing multiple concurrent investigations while meeting regulatory deadlines. The role requires:
• Maintaining detailed case files and documentation for potential enforcement actions
• Coordinating with internal stakeholders (trading, legal, product) and external parties (regulators, outside counsel)
• Prioritizing alerts and investigations based on risk severity

Communication and Influence:

• You must translate complex trading behaviors and technical analysis into clear, concise written reports for diverse audiences including senior management, legal counsel, and regulators.
• Strong verbal communication skills are essential for conducting trader interviews, presenting findings to cross-functional teams, and collaborating with regulators.
• Experience drafting investigative memos, preparing deposition materials, and presenting to attorneys is highly valued.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Extensive experience with CFTC/SEC enforcement actions and investigation procedures
• Hands-on expertise with surveillance systems and alert scenario development
• Strong analytical skills to identify complex trading patterns and market abuse schemes
• Ability to manage relationships with regulators and respond to inquiries/examinations
• Experience building compliance programs in fast-paced, evolving regulatory environments

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Direct experience with cryptocurrency markets and DeFi protocols
• Background in both institutional and retail trading environments
• Previous work experience in exchanges or trading venues

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. 

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

 

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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