# Compliance, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives

**Company:** [Kalshi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kalshi)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $150k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** financial services compliance, regulatory licensing, occ charters, bank regulatory matters, trust regulatory frameworks, regulatory applications, compliance program design, Project Management, m&a diligence, money transmission, payments regulation, custody, stablecoins, regulatory analysis, Cross-Functional Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Own complex financial-services licensing and charter initiatives, initially focused on a potential OCC bank or trust charter. The role requires 8–12 years of relevant experience, direct charter application experience, strong regulatory knowledge, and the ability to execute cross-functional workstreams.

## Job Description

## 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.

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