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As part of Kalshi's Compliance team, you will own some of the company's most important regulatory expansion initiatives as Kalshi enters new products, payment rails, jurisdictions, and regulated business lines. Your initial priority will be driving Kalshi's bank and trust charter strategy, including the potential pursuit of an OCC charter, while also supporting other licensing, market-entry, M&A, and strategic regulatory initiatives.

This is a hands-on execution role with significant strategic exposure. You will be expected to take ambiguous regulatory questions, develop a clear path forward, and then drive the underlying diligence, applications, documentation, and cross-functional work required to execute. In the near term, a major objective will be developing and executing Kalshi's trust or bank charter roadmap. Longer term, if a charter is obtained, you may play a central role in building and operating the compliance program for that regulated entity.

The ideal candidate has personally worked through complex financial-services licensing processes and is equally comfortable developing the strategy, engaging with regulators and advisors, and doing the detailed execution required to get an application across the finish line.

What You'll Do

• Own Kalshi's licensing and charter initiatives end-to-end, with an initial focus 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 materials required for licensing and charter processes
• Serve as a central 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 associated with potential acquisitions, investments, partnerships, or entry into new regulated businesses
• Conduct regulatory and competitive landscape analysis and translate findings into clear 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 Kalshi's business and regulatory footprint expand

What You Bring

• 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 other 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
• Demonstrated ability to independently take ambiguous regulatory or strategic questions and turn them into clear recommendations and executable workplans
• Strong project-management skills with the ability to drive multiple complex, cross-functional workstreams simultaneously
• Excellent written communication skills and comfort producing regulator-facing applications, memoranda, policies, presentations, and executive-level recommendations
• Comfortable working directly with senior executives, regulators, outside counsel, and other sophisticated external stakeholders
• Highly execution-oriented and willing to personally drive detailed diligence, documentation, and application work rather than only managing advisors
• Experience with regulatory M&A diligence, money transmission licensing, payments regulation, custody, stablecoins, or other financial-services licenses is a plus
• Comfortable operating without an established playbook in a fast-moving and evolving regulatory environment

NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure:

Salary Range: $150,000 to $250,000 annually plus equity and benefits.
This range reflects current market data for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and broad variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out - we're always happy to discuss.