Senior Intelligence Analyst - Russia & Eurasia Regional Focus

Chainalysis

6d • $135,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Chainalysis is hiring a Senior Intelligence Analyst focused on Russia and Eurasia to serve as the Global Intelligence Team’s subject-matter expert on Russian and Eurasian crypto threats. The role owns attribution of Russia’s crypto footprint, investigates how regional actors use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions and move value, and produces intelligence that helps customers understand and act on these threats. The analyst will work with a globally distributed team of analysts, threat-domain experts, data scientists, and engineers.

The position focuses on Russian and Eurasian crypto networks and financial infrastructure, including no-KYC exchanges, OTC networks, instant swaps, stablecoin corridors, cross-border payment channels, ransomware and cybercrime flows, and procurement networks for restricted or dual-use goods. The analyst will respond to Russia-related sanctions designations, map networks on-chain, contribute to collection priorities, translate threat typologies into product and customer guidance, and represent Chainalysis externally. The role also involves designing and tuning AI-enabled automation while applying judgment to cases that automation cannot resolve.

Chainalysis describes AI fluency as an expectation for all employees: employees are expected to develop their capabilities, take ownership of AI outputs and quality, experiment with available tools, and collaborate to improve how work is done.

Requirements

• Deep, demonstrable expertise in Russia and Eurasia, including the Russian sanctions landscape, Russian financial infrastructure and its adaptation to sanctions, the CIS/former Soviet bloc crypto ecosystem, and/or Russian illicit-finance and procurement networks.
• Ability to trace Russian-targeted cryptocurrency activity on-chain, or deep Russia threat-finance expertise paired with proven blockchain-tracing skills.
• A national-security or threat-finance background, such as intelligence, sanctions, counter-threat-finance, or investigations experience in the intelligence community, Treasury/OFAC, law enforcement, the military, a think tank or research institution, or private-sector counter-threat-finance or sanctions work.
• Strong understanding of Russian and Eurasian geopolitics, the sanctions landscape, and regional financial flows.
• Exceptional aptitude, judgment, and work ethic, with a track record of leading difficult problems end to end and raising the performance of others.
• Excellent writing and communication skills for delivering intelligence to analysts, customers, and senior audiences.
• An AI-forward approach, including building automation to scale one’s own work and that of others.
• Comfort working with data.
• At least 5 years of relevant analytic, intelligence, or threat-finance experience for a Senior hire.

Nice To Haves

• Russian language ability.
• Direct experience with OFAC, EU, or OFSI sanctions, sanctions-evasion investigations, or the designation process.
• Published research or public-speaking experience on Russia, sanctions evasion, or crypto threat finance.
• Familiarity with Russian and CIS exchange infrastructure, stablecoin-based sanctions evasion, ransomware financial flows, or dual-use procurement networks.
• Blockchain forensics experience.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience and recognized domain authority for a Staff hire.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end attribution of Russian and Eurasian threat-actor entities, their definitions, and their associated accounts, addresses, and infrastructure.
• Lead rapid on-chain attribution responses to Russia-related sanctions designations by OFAC or allied authorities.
• Trace how Russian and Eurasian actors raise, move, launder, and cash out value through regional exchanges, no-KYC swaps, OTC desks, stablecoin corridors, mixers, and off-ramps, and keep network assessments current as actors adapt.
• Produce finished intelligence, including advisory notes, customer and partner briefings, and contributions to publications such as the Crypto Crime Report.
• Represent Chainalysis as an external expert on Russia and Eurasia crypto threats at conferences, panels, in press engagements, and in public- and private-sector briefings.
• Identify collection needs for Russian and Eurasian networks and contribute them to the team’s collection process and priority intelligence requirements.
• Translate Russian threat methods and sanctions-evasion typologies into actionable guidance for Chainalysis products and customers.
• Design and tune AI-enabled automation to scale individual and team analysis, while handling cases automation cannot resolve.
• Raise the team’s standard of Russia and Eurasia and sanctions-evasion tradecraft, partnering with analysts, other subject-matter experts, data scientists, and engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed