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About the Role
An exciting opportunity to apply your research skills to collect intelligence and develop expertise at the convergence of cybercrime and cryptoassets. This role will focus on identifying and monitoring cryptoasset use connected to Terrorism and Sanctions.
Impact of the Role:
As a Senior Crypto Threat Analyst at Elliptic, your in-depth research on cryptoasset-related sanctions and terrorist activity will help financial and government institutions screen transactions and prevent financial crime.
Sitting within our Intelligence function, you will help build our best-in-class dataset that is collected across the open and dark web. Your contributions will form our ground truth dataset, the most fundamental building block that defines our understanding of low-risk and high-risk crypto wallets - helping hundreds of our customers, every day.
Your insights will form the basis of client-facing research, intelligence briefings, and marketing content, solidifying Elliptic's position as a thought leader and ensuring a more secure future for the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Ensure Elliptic maintains a deep understanding of terrorist and sanctioned use of cryptoassets
- Source and collect data in collaboration with the Intelligence Collection team
- Analyse blockchain activity connected to Terrorism and Sanctions
- Produce and deliver intelligence reports and briefings
- Manage collaborative research projects with internal stakeholders and/or external partners.
- Lead on the production of blogs, research reports and other marketing materials.
- Attend industry events to showcase Elliptic’s research to current and prospective clients.
- Maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and industry partners
- Use Elliptic’s tools and other resources to investigate blockchain activity
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
You will be a great fit here if you:
- Love researching and applying better practices to drive process improvement
- Love collaborating with others to solve problems
- Are curious about how terrorist and sanctioned entities use crypto and blockchain technology
Our ideal candidate has:
- Subject matter expertise in terrorism financing or sanctions is highly desirable
- 4+ years experience as an intelligence analyst or investigator in a similar role within law enforcement or crypto/banking/compliance
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills - the ability to distil complex concepts and data into concise explanations
- Open source and dark web research skills
- An understanding of legal considerations when researching terrorist and sanctioned entities
- Experience with crypto or within the crypto industry
Bonus points:
- A technical understanding of cryptoassets and blockchains
- Experience with blockchain analytics tools
Benefits
> How we work:
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
> Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development LinkedIn Learning subscription.
> Vacation/ Leave:
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
> Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 cryptocurrency for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
About Elliptic
At Elliptic, we believe cryptocurrency will play a huge role in the future of value transfer, and we care deeply about helping to build this future. As digital assets and cryptocurrency become more widely adopted, our products are essential to ensure cryptocurrency is safe and accessible to all.
Elliptic’s blockchain analytics solutions help prevent financial crime and allow cryptocurrencies to be used for good. The company is the global leader in detecting, preventing, and pursuing criminal activity in cryptocurrencies. Our products are used by some of the world’s most highly regulated banks and financial institutions, leading cryptocurrency exchanges, and government agencies to screen over $1 billion of transactions every single week.
The company has offices in London (Global HQ), New York City, and Singapore.. We are backed by leading institutions including Evolution Equity Partners, SoftBank, SBI Group, Albion VC, Octopus Ventures, SignalFire, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Paladin Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Digital Currency Group.
To achieve our mission, we depend on our incredible team of Elliptites. Our values are reflected in everything we do and in every decision we make, both internally and outwardly to our customers. We actively encourage Elliptities to challenge the status quo and allow the freedom to innovate and learn everyday. We encourage new ideas and learning, whether that’s through collaboration, our curiosity sessions, or utilising your professional development budget - the team’s personal growth is key to our success.
