About the Role
In this position, you'll be a key player within the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Scale Team, focusing on enhancing transaction monitoring and compliance with regulatory environments. The role will center on leading improvements in operational efficiency and effectiveness while utilizing innovative technologies to bolster financial crime compliance efforts. You will work closely with various departments and external vendors, ensuring the FIU is well-equipped to scale its operations as the company expands into new markets and product offerings.
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Responsibilities
- Lead transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning, and the design and rollout of new monitoring scenarios to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
- Identify and drive automation and workflow improvements across FIU processes to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including LLM and AI-enabled tools, to enhance alert triage, investigations, SAR filing, and FIU operational capabilities.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to support vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure improvements, and FIU tooling enhancements.
- Collaborate with Compliance leadership, including RCOs and MLROs, to maintain well-governed transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations.
- Support FIU scalability by designing processes and monitoring strategies that enable expansion into new products, regions, and increased transaction volumes.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime compliance, or FIU operations, with deep knowledge of transaction monitoring frameworks, suspicious activity detection, and regulatory expectations under BSA/AML regimes.
- 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and tuning transaction monitoring rules, including threshold optimization, scenario design, and alert reduction strategies.
- 3+ years of experience working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling, including case management platforms, monitoring infrastructure, and investigative workflows.
- Experience working in a regulated financial institution, preferably one licensed to operate in the EU, UK, and/or United States.
- Experience driving process optimization or automation initiatives within compliance or financial crime programs to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, or Operations teams to implement monitoring controls, vendor integrations, or compliance technology solutions.
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with experience using metrics, dashboards, and data analysis to evaluate monitoring effectiveness and improve detection quality.
- Experience operating in fast-growing fintech, payments, or crypto environments, with the ability to design scalable compliance controls that support new product launches and geographic expansion.
- Experience working with AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled compliance tools, including investigative automation or alert triage technologies.
- Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar crypto investigative platforms.
- Experience supporting vendor selection, implementation, or integration of regtech solutions.
Nice to Haves
- ACAMS, CAMS-Audit, CFCS, or similar financial crime certifications.
Additional Information
Unless a specific application deadline is stated, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Applicants are permitted to redact or remove information identifying age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at educational institutions. We assess candidates’ criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. We celebrate diverse talents and backgrounds and encourage applications from those who may not meet all listed requirements but have a passion for and knowledge of crypto.
As an equal opportunity employer, we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
