Compliance Lead

Who Are We?

Decentralized Masters is at the forefront of DeFi education globally. In just two years, we have grown from a pioneering pair of co-founders to over 140 dedicated professionals. Today, we are recognized as one of the fastest-growing enterprises in the sector, with industry insiders predicting our evolution into a unicorn company by 2030. Operating on a bootstrapped model, we are on track to achieve an impressive $50 million in revenue this year alone.

Our Impact

While our growth has been remarkable, we take even greater pride in the success of our clients. To date, we have empowered over 4,000 investors to break into the DeFi world. At Decentralized Masters, we don’t just offer education; we cultivate a powerhouse of knowledge combined with an engaging community, innovative technology, and a team of leading DeFi and blockchain experts. Our commitment is to deliver unparalleled resources designed for long-term success in the world of DeFi and Web3, ensuring our members not only safeguard but also enhance their financial future.

Our Vision

Our goal is to create the largest and most influential DeFi ecosystem the world has ever seen, starting with becoming the gold standard in DeFi education. This vision is ambitious, transformative, and poised to change the landscape of digital finance.

Are You Ready?

This is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to shape the future of Web3 technology and education. Are you ready to be part of our vision to redefine what’s possible in DeFi and beyond? Apply below, and let’s explore this journey together.

Check us out here: https://www.decen-masters.com/

What will you be doing?

The Compliance Lead is the operational owner of legal and regulatory compliance across the entire organization. This is not a passive advisory role. The Compliance Lead is expected to build infrastructure, enforce standards, manage external counsel relationships, and serve as the front line of risk management for every department that touches customers, marketing, or revenue.

Why This Role Exists

Decentralized Masters is one of the fastest-growing crypto and DeFi education companies in the world. With that growth comes real regulatory responsibility. The industries we operate in - financial education, digital marketing, and emerging technology - exist within a regulatory environment that is constantly evolving, and the consequences of failing to keep pace can range from significant financial penalties to threats against the business itself.

The Compliance Lead exists to make sure that as DM scales, we do it the right way. This isn't a back-office legal function - it's a front-line business protection role. The person in this seat monitors the shifting regulatory landscape, translates what those changes mean for how we market, sell, and operate, and builds the internal systems that keep our team informed and protected. They sit at the intersection of marketing, sales, product, and legal - ensuring that DM can grow aggressively without creating liability that could threaten everything we've built.

Put simply: this role exists because a company operating at our level and pace needs someone whose full-time job is understanding where the rules are today, anticipating where they're going tomorrow, and making sure DM is always on the right side of both.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES BY AREA

Marketing & Advertising Compliance

• Establish and operate a formal pre-launch review process for all external marketing assets: Facebook/Google/YouTube ads, VSLs, landing pages, webinar slides, email sequences, and affiliate-distributed copy.
• Build and maintain a versioned asset library with compliance notes, approval status, and review history for every piece of marketing collateral.
• Maintain a pre-approved disclaimer and disclosure library for reuse across channels, ensuring standards are met in every placement format (video, email, social, landing page).
• Monitor and evaluate ad accounts for compliance (Meta, Google, YouTube) Sales Team 

Compliance

• Review, annotate, and approve sales webinar scripts and one-on-one sales frameworks before they are used.
• Conduct post-webinar compliance auditsAnd Provide feedback to sales leadership

Product Compliance

• Conduct a full risk assessment of all current DM products.
• Review and update the student onboarding agreements 
• Manage the stored signed agreements in a searchable database.
• Monitor and report on mentor compliance patterns; recommend remediation or removal for non-compliant behavior.

Affiliate & Partner Compliance

• Review and revise affiliate agreement templates to include explicit compliance obligations: prohibited claims, required disclosures, takedown procedures, and indemnification provisions.
• Conduct compliance and background vetting of all new affiliate partners, advertising channel partners, and business development deals before execution. Produce written risk assessments for each.
• Maintain a database of all active affiliate and partner contracts with key terms, renewal dates, compliance status, and any active issues.
• Implement an ongoing affiliate content monitoring process to identify and remediate non-compliant income claims, undisclosed material connections, or prohibited advertising tactics made on DM’s behalf.
• Serve as a second set of eyes on all incoming business development proposals and partnership deal terms, flagging regulatory or liability concerns before deals close.

Data Privacy & Consumer Protection

• Audit and certify SMS marketing program for compliance, including: prior express written consent documentation, per-text consent tracking, keyword opt-out functionality, message frequency disclosures, and content restrictions. 
• Review all commercial email programs for CAN-SPAM compliance: proper identification headers, functional unsubscribe mechanisms, physical address inclusion, and non-deceptive subject lines.

Internal Training & Policy Management

• Ongoing trailing and compliance onboarding for all new hires in marketing, sales, mentorship, and customer success roles.
• Conduct quarterly compliance training sessions for the mentor team Maintain a centralized compliance policy library accessible to all teams: a living set of approved language, prohibited phrases, platform rules, and regulatory summaries.
• Produce a monthly internal compliance digest summarizing: new regulatory developments, recent enforcement actions in the fintech/edu space, and any internal compliance incidents or near-misses

External Counsel Management

• Serve as the primary internal liaison with outside legal counsel.
• Triage issues between internal handling and escalation to outside counsel; manage the outside counsel budget by handling routine compliance work internally and reserving attorney time for high-stakes matters.
• Track and brief leadership on regulatory developments affecting crypto/DeFi education companies

Requirements

What you will bring

Required Experience

• Background in a compliance, legal, or risk management role within FTC-regulated marketing, financial publishing, fintech, or direct-response marketing. Familiarity with crypto, DeFi, or broader fintech regulatory landscape (SEC, CFTC, and state-level securities laws are a plus).
• Hands-on knowledge of FTC Endorsement Guides (2023 update), TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and the Publisher’s Exemption under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
• Direct exposure to affiliate ecosystem compliance: monitoring affiliate claims, drafting affiliate agreements, and managing takedowns.
• Experience reviewing marketing copy, VSLs, email sequences, and webinar scripts for compliance risk in a high-volume, fast-moving content environment.

Core Competencies

• Typicality and earnings claim analysis: understands the distinction between specific income claims, lifestyle claims, and substantiated educational context.
• Understands digital marketing mechanics: funnels, copywriting psychology, affiliate channels, and how promotional content is constructed — not just reviewed.
• Can translate legal risk into business-friendly decisions: says “no” when required but always brings an alternative.
• Comfortable working without a formal legal team above them — this role is the team. Must be a self-starter who builds systems from scratch.
• Strong written communication: produces clear, actionable compliance memos, policy documents, and feedback that non-attorneys can act on.

Mindset Requirements

• Commercially aware: understands that compliance is a business enabler, not a roadblock. The goal is compliant revenue growth, not revenue prevention.
• High sense of urgency: DM is a fast-moving content organization. The Compliance Lead must be able to turn around reviews quickly and communicate clearly about timelines.
• Low ego, high standards: this person will push back on marketing, sales, and leadership when needed. Must do so confidently and constructively.
• Pattern-recognition instinct for enforcement: when reviewing content, conversations, business products and initiatives, the internal question is always “would a regulatory body flag this?”
  

Benefits

What We Offer

• Competitive salary - benchmarked to experience and output, not just credentials
• Full access to DM courses and educational resources
• Direct exposure to the founders and senior leadership - your work will be seen
• 100% remote and async-friendly culture
• The chance to build and own the organic growth function from the ground up
• A brand with a real audience and real students - your work will have measurable impact immediately