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You will manage the entire spectrum of customer outcomes, initiating with deep discovery and investigative work and culminating in the design, integration, deployment, and long-term enablement of the customer.\nThis position sits at the intersection of analytical rigor, financial services expertise, and strategic customer partnership. You will engage directly with banks and other financial institutions to understand their operational goals, risk requirements, investigative needs, and compliance challenges, developing bespoke workflows that allow organizations to leverage Chainalysis independently.\nYour impact hinges on strong investigative instincts, technical proficiency, an understanding of financial crime and compliance within banking, and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders. Japanese language fluency is required, both spoken and written.\nIn this role, you’ll:\nOwn end-to-end customer engagements with banks and financial institutions, from discovery through investigation, solution design, deployment, enablement, and ongoing value delivery\n\nPartner directly with banks and financial institutions to understand investigative, intelligence, compliance, fraud, AML, and operational objectives and translate them into actionable outcomes\n\nDesign, build, and maintain custom workflows, notebooks, dashboards, queries, and data models using Chainalysis data and products\n\nEnable customers to operate solutions independently, building internal capability and embedding Chainalysis into their operational infrastructure\n\nAct as the primary technical and domain advisor for customers, building trusted relationships through hands-on expertise and credibility\n\nDeliver live training, demonstrations, investigative walkthroughs, and technical briefings to both technical and non-technical audiences\n\nSupport pre-sales technical engagement for complex and strategic financial services opportunities, helping customers understand what is possible and how to achieve it\n\nCollaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Global Intelligence, and Sales to influence the roadmap and improve offerings based on customer and market intelligence\n\nDevelop and share financial services domain expertise, investigative techniques, and best practices that raise the capability of the wider team\n\nWe’re looking for candidates who have:\nProfessional experience working directly with banks, financial institutions, or other financial services organizations\n\nFluency in both spoken and written Japanese\n\nConducted or directly supported cryptocurrency investigations, blockchain intelligence, financial crime analysis, AML, compliance, fraud, or related work in an operational environment\n\nStrong understanding of how banks and financial institutions manage financial crime, compliance, risk, investigations, and digital asset exposure\n\nDeep familiarity with blockchain ecosystems, including BTC, ETH, stablecoins and DeFi, and how on-chain data can be used within financial crime, compliance, risk, or investigative workflows\n\nDelivered customer-facing technical solutions, whether investigative outputs, data products, or analytical workflows, in complex real-world environments\n\nBuilt insights from large or complex datasets and communicated findings to varied audiences, from analysts to senior banking executives\n\nOperated successfully in fast-paced, ambiguous environments requiring ownership, adaptability, and sound judgment\n\nRequired Skills:\nTechnical Skills\nProficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis, transformation, and solution development\n\nExperience building notebooks, dashboards, and analytical workflows\n\nSolid understanding of data modelling, querying, and working with large datasets\n\nAbility to quickly develop deep expertise in Chainalysis data structures, schemas, and products\n\nFinancial Services & Domain Expertise\nSubstantive experience working with banks or financial institutions is a must\n\nExperience in one or more relevant domains, such as AML, financial crime investigations, fraud, sanctions and compliance, risk, cybercrime, or digital asset compliance\n\nUnderstanding of how banks and financial institutions operate, including their investigative workflows, regulatory environment, risk frameworks, and stakeholder structures\n\nAbility to apply financial services and domain expertise to shape investigative approaches, solution design, and customer advisory\n\nStrong understanding of how blockchain intelligence and digital asset data can support banking, compliance, risk, and financial crime objectives\n\nCustomer & Communication Skills\nProven ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with banking and financial services customers through technical and domain credibility\n\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex investigative and data concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\nFluent Japanese communication skills, both written and verbal\n\nComfortable leading customer sessions, workshops, training, and technical working groups\n\nExperience enabling and upskilling customer teams, not just delivering outputs but building long-term customer capability\n\nAbility to communicate effectively with senior banking, compliance, risk, AML, and financial crime stakeholders\n\nAI at Chainalysis\nAI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.\nAI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.\nAbout Chainalysis\nChainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.\nYou belong here.\nAt Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.\nWe encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. 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