Compliance, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives

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