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OKX

Venture capital for blockchain startups

Senior Fraud Risk Manager

Financial Crime & AMLConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNew York, NY, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of relevant investigative or analytical experience, including meaningful professional experience conducting cryptocurrency or blockchain investigations.
  • Demonstrated hands-on expertise independently conducting complex blockchain tracing investigations, rather than solely reviewing blockchain alerts or commercial risk scores.
  • Advanced proficiency with one or more blockchain intelligence platforms such as Chainalysis Reactor, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or comparable technology.
  • Strong understanding of how blockchain intelligence platforms derive attribution, clustering, exposure, and risk information, and of the limitations of those methodologies.
  • Demonstrated understanding of blockchain fundamentals, including wallets and addresses, transactions, UTXO and account-based models, tokens, smart contracts, block explorers, transaction fees, confirmations, and blockchain-specific transactional structures.
  • Strong understanding of digital-asset ecosystems, including centralized exchanges, self-hosted wallets, DeFi, decentralized exchanges, stablecoins, cross-chain bridges, mixers, privacy-enhancing mechanisms, and other relevant technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to trace assets across multiple chains, protocols, and intermediaries and recognize when technical limitations prevent definitive continuity or attribution.
  • Experience conducting transaction-graph analysis, wallet attribution, clustering, counterparty analysis, transaction-flow reconstruction, and investigative link analysis.
  • Ability to critically assess blockchain attribution and distinguish among technical facts, commercial vendor intelligence, analytical inference, and unsupported assumptions.
  • Experience integrating blockchain intelligence with off-chain evidence and enterprise information to develop investigative conclusions.
  • Strong knowledge of fraud-investigation principles, including corroboration, source evaluation, evidence preservation, timeline development, hypothesis testing, and documentation.
  • Experience analyzing large or complex datasets and familiarity with tools such as SQL, advanced Excel, Python, Splunk, or comparable data-analysis technologies.
  • Ability to clearly explain technically complex blockchain findings to audiences that may have little or no blockchain expertise.
  • Strong investigative writing skills and demonstrated ability to produce accurate, concise, and defensible analytical products.
  • Sound judgment and ability to work effectively where evidence is incomplete, conflicting, or evolving.
  • Demonstrated discretion when handling sensitive employee, customer, investigative, security, or company information.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring, supervising, or reviewing the work of junior analysts or investigators.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and conduct complex blockchain investigations and transaction tracing across multiple wallets, counterparties, entities, blockchains, tokens, protocols, and digital-asset ecosystems.
  • Trace the origin, movement, conversion, layering, consolidation, and ultimate disposition of digital assets, including activity spanning multiple intermediaries and blockchain environments.
  • Conduct investigations using blockchain intelligence platforms while understanding the methodologies and limitations underlying platform-generated attribution.
  • Analyze activity involving centralized exchanges, self-hosted wallets, decentralized exchanges, cross-chain bridges, mixers, privacy-enhancing technologies, DeFi protocols, smart contracts, stablecoins, NFTs, OTC activity, gambling platforms, and other relevant ecosystems.
  • Trace assets across multiple chains and cross-chain transactions, identifying continuity of funds where technically supportable and documenting assumptions or limitations where definitive attribution is not possible.
  • Analyze transaction graphs, address relationships, behavioral patterns, clusters, counterparties, timing, amounts, transaction sequencing, and other relevant blockchain indicators.
  • Understand and appropriately apply wallet-clustering and attribution methodologies, including the limitations and potential for false attribution associated with particular heuristics.
  • Independently evaluate blockchain intelligence rather than relying solely on automated labels, risk scores, or vendor-generated attribution.
  • Corroborate on-chain findings, where appropriate, with internal account records, KYC/KYB information, transaction data, access information, open-source intelligence, legal-process returns, or other available evidence.
  • Identify relationships among blockchain addresses, OKX accounts, external counterparties, individuals, organizations, vendors, affiliates, and other relevant entities.
  • Reconstruct complex transaction flows and create fund-flow diagrams, transaction maps, timelines, and visualizations that help investigators and nontechnical stakeholders understand the movement of assets.
  • Analyze blockchain activity associated with suspected fraud, theft, account takeover, social engineering, insider activity, collusion, payment diversion, asset misappropriation, or other misconduct.
  • Identify new wallets, counterparties, entities, or transactional patterns that may generate additional investigative leads.
  • Document the methodology, assumptions, confidence level, and limitations associated with blockchain findings.
  • Distinguish between confirmed attribution, vendor attribution, analytical inference, behavioral similarity, and an unverified investigative hypothesis.
  • Avoid presenting blockchain proximity, exposure, clustering, or a commercial risk score alone as proof of ownership, control, intent, or misconduct.
  • Maintain current knowledge of emerging blockchain technologies, protocols, tracing methodologies, obfuscation techniques, fraud typologies, and developments affecting blockchain attribution or investigations.
  • Conduct and support investigations involving internal and external fraud, employee misconduct, insider threats, vendor and third-party misconduct, collusion, conflicts of interest, asset misappropriation, unauthorized access, credential misuse, and other significant fraud risks.
  • Combine blockchain findings with off-chain evidence to develop a comprehensive investigative picture rather than treating blockchain activity in isolation.
  • Develop investigative hypotheses and objectively test them against available evidence, including information that supports, contradicts, or fails to establish each hypothesis.
  • Conduct timeline reconstruction, link analysis, relationship mapping, pattern analysis, clustering, and comparative analysis across individuals, accounts, wallets, devices, systems, transactions, and entities.
  • Support investigations involving account takeover, impersonation, social engineering, business-email compromise, payment diversion, affiliate misconduct, and trusted-party abuse, particularly where a digital-asset, employee, vendor, or enterprise nexus exists.
  • Analyze vendor, affiliate, partner, and other third-party activity for indicators of billing irregularities, undisclosed relationships, conflicts of interest, unusual payments, control circumvention, or other potential misconduct.
  • Support investigative interviews by developing transaction timelines, identifying inconsistencies or information gaps, organizing evidence, and identifying appropriate areas for follow-up.
  • Analyze appropriately authorized information, including system and access logs, authentication records, audit trails, customer-account activity, KYC/KYB information, transaction records, payment information, case-management records, vendor information, and relevant security telemetry.
  • Correlate blockchain activity with enterprise data to identify possible connections among wallets, accounts, employees, customers, vendors, devices, transactions, and other relevant entities.
  • Support investigations involving suspected unauthorized access, information misuse or exfiltration, credential compromise, control circumvention, unauthorized disclosure, or abuse of privileged access.
  • Identify anomalous behavior or access patterns that may warrant additional investigation.
  • Develop repeatable analytical methodologies capable of processing and correlating information from disparate systems.
  • Use appropriate scripting, database querying, data visualization, and analytical technologies to efficiently analyze large or complex datasets.
  • Prepare clear, concise, and well-supported blockchain investigation reports, investigative memoranda, executive summaries, transaction-flow diagrams, link charts, timelines, and other analytical products.
  • Explain complex blockchain concepts and transaction activity in plain language suitable for investigators, senior management, Legal, regulators, or law enforcement, as appropriate.
  • Distinguish among allegations, investigative leads, known facts, third-party attribution, analytical judgments, assumptions, information gaps, and substantiated conclusions.
  • Ensure analytical conclusions are proportionate to the evidence and do not imply greater certainty than the underlying blockchain or other data supports.
  • Maintain sufficient documentation to allow significant blockchain findings to be reviewed, reproduced, and understood by another qualified analyst.
  • Preserve and handle investigative records in accordance with applicable evidence-preservation, chain-of-custody, confidentiality, privacy, access-control, and need-to-know requirements.
  • Support appropriately authorized law-enforcement, regulatory, litigation, or legal matters in coordination with the appropriate company functions.
  • Provide analytical support to the Global Physical Security Team on selected matters involving threats or concerning activity directed toward employees, executives, offices, events, or other company interests.
  • Conduct authorized open-source, link, timeline, blockchain, financial, or other analytical research where relevant to understanding the identity, relationships, capabilities, or activity associated with a potential threat.
  • Assist in evaluating available information relating to credibility, corroboration, intent, capability, access or opportunity, targeting, escalation, timing, and other relevant indicators.
  • Prepare objective analytical products identifying known facts, analytical judgments, material information gaps, uncertainties, and appropriate confidence levels.
  • Support the Physical Security Team’s assessment while preserving its responsibility for protective-security decisions and operational response.
  • Directly manage and develop one Junior Analyst, including work allocation, coaching, technical development, quality assurance, and review of analytical work product.
  • Serve as a subject-matter resource for blockchain investigations and on-chain analytical methodology across the Fraud Investigations Team.
  • Review blockchain analysis for technical accuracy, appropriate methodology, corroboration, reasonable attribution, and evidentiary support.
  • Train and mentor junior personnel in transaction tracing, blockchain intelligence platforms, analytical reasoning, documentation, and investigative methodology.
  • Help establish consistent standards for blockchain investigations, attribution, documentation, quality assurance, and reporting.
  • Participate in time-sensitive investigations affecting a global organization, including occasional work outside normal business hours when required.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience conducting blockchain investigations within a cryptocurrency exchange, blockchain analytics company, law-enforcement agency, regulatory organization, financial institution, intelligence function, or investigative consulting environment.
  • Experience investigating digital-asset matters involving fraud proceeds, theft, account compromise, insider activity, social engineering, asset tracing, or complex cross-chain movement.
  • Experience supporting asset recovery, law-enforcement referrals, subpoenas or other legal process, civil litigation, regulatory inquiries, or other matters requiring defensible blockchain analysis.
  • Experience investigating insider threats, employee misconduct, unauthorized access, data exfiltration, credential compromise, vendor fraud, conflicts of interest, or trusted-party abuse.
  • Experience with open-source intelligence, digital forensics, enterprise logs, security telemetry, or identity and access-management information.
  • Experience creating custom blockchain analytics through APIs, SQL, Python, blockchain explorers, node data, or other raw-data sources, rather than relying exclusively on commercial graphical interfaces.
  • Relevant blockchain-specific training or certifications, including certifications associated with Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or comparable blockchain-analysis platforms.
  • Professional certifications such as Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Financial Crime Specialist, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, GIAC, or comparable investigative, fraud, financial-crime, cybersecurity, or intelligence credentials.

About the Company

OKX

Venture capital for blockchain startups

OKX Ventures acts as the investment arm of the OKX cryptocurrency exchange, funding and supporting blockchain, DeFi, and Web3 projects. It invests across a wide range of areas—from infrastructure and middleware to applications and games—aiming to strengthen the crypto ecosystem. The firm provides capital and access to OKX’s network of partners and advisors to help portfolio companies grow and succeed. Notable holdings include Polygon, Solana, and Avalanche, reflecting a strategy focused on projects with potential to impact the crypto industry at large. OKX Ventures differentiates itself through its crypto-native perspective, extensive industry network, and active involvement in portfolio development, rather than just providing funding. Its goal is to identify promising projects and help them scale, contributing to a more robust and innovative blockchain ecosystem.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
$1.1B
Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Founded
2017

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