Compliance, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives

As part of Kalshi’s Compliance team, you will own some of the company’s most important regulatory expansion initiatives. This is a hands-on execution role with significant strategic exposure. You will be expected to take regulatory questions, develop a clear path forward, and then drive the underlying diligence, applications, documentation, and cross-functional work required to execute.

Responsibilities

Own complex licensing and regulatory initiatives end-to-end across new products, jurisdictions, and regulated business lines; Develop regulatory strategies for new products, partnerships, market expansion, and other strategic business initiatives; Prepare and coordinate regulatory applications, supporting documentation, policies, business plans, governance materials, and other materials required for licensing and approval processes; Serve as a central cross-functional owner across Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, Operations, and executive leadership for major regulatory initiatives; Manage regulatory diligence workstreams and coordinate with outside counsel, consultants, regulators, and other external stakeholders; Evaluate regulatory 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 strategic initiatives, establish milestones and dependencies, and drive workstreams through completion; Help design and operationalize compliance frameworks for new products, international markets, or regulated business lines; Take on other high-priority strategic compliance initiatives as Kalshi’s business and regulatory footprint expand

Requirements

8–12 years of relevant experience in financial-services compliance, regulatory licensing, fintech, crypto, payments, or related fields; Direct, substantive experience working through complex financial-services licensing or regulatory approval processes, ideally within a fintech, crypto, payments, or other technology-driven financial-services company; Experience owning complex regulatory processes from initial assessment through application, regulator engagement, remediation, and approval; Strong understanding of financial-services regulatory frameworks, licensing requirements, governance expectations, and compliance program design; Demonstrated ability to independently take 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; Comfortable operating without an established playbook in a fast-moving and evolving regulatory environment

Nice to have

Experience with regulatory M&A diligence, market-entry analysis, complex licensing regimes, or other strategic financial-services regulatory work is a plus

Benefits

Equity; Benefits