Compliance, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives

Responsibilities

• Own Kalshi’s licensing and charter initiatives end-to-end, initially focusing on evaluating and potentially pursuing an OCC national trust bank or national bank charter.
• Develop licensing strategies for new products, payment rails, custody capabilities, stablecoin-related infrastructure, jurisdictions, and regulated business models.
• Prepare and coordinate regulatory applications, supporting documentation, policies, business plans, governance materials, and other licensing and charter materials.
• Serve as a cross-functional owner across Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, Operations, and executive leadership for major licensing initiatives.
• Manage regulatory diligence workstreams and coordinate with outside counsel, consultants, regulators, banking partners, and other external stakeholders.
• Evaluate licensing implications of potential acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and entry into new regulated businesses.
• Conduct regulatory and competitive landscape analysis and translate findings into recommendations for senior leadership.
• Build execution plans for ambiguous strategic initiatives, establish milestones and dependencies, and drive workstreams through completion.
• If Kalshi obtains a bank or trust charter, help design and operationalize the entity’s compliance program.
• Take on other high-priority strategic compliance initiatives as the business and regulatory footprint expand.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of relevant experience in financial-services compliance, regulatory licensing, bank regulatory matters, fintech, crypto, payments, or related fields.
• Direct, substantive experience working on an OCC national trust bank or national bank charter application, ideally within a fintech, crypto, payments, or technology-driven financial-services company.
• Experience owning complex regulatory licensing processes from initial assessment through application, regulator engagement, remediation, and approval.
• Strong understanding of bank or trust regulatory frameworks, licensing requirements, governance expectations, and compliance program design.
• Ability to turn ambiguous regulatory or strategic questions into clear recommendations and executable workplans.
• Strong project-management skills and the ability to drive multiple complex, cross-functional workstreams simultaneously.
• Excellent written communication skills, including experience producing regulator-facing applications, memoranda, policies, presentations, and executive-level recommendations.
• Ability to work directly with senior executives, regulators, outside counsel, and sophisticated external stakeholders.
• Willingness to personally drive detailed diligence, documentation, and application work.
• Ability to operate without an established playbook in a fast-moving regulatory environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with regulatory M&A diligence, money transmission licensing, payments regulation, custody, stablecoins, or other financial-services licenses.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $150,000–$250,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.