Compliance, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives

What is Kalshi?

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

• Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.

• Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.

Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.

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.

• 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 work streams 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 work streams 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

• 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,…