Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Program

• Design and lead AML frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, including Due Diligence, and Suspicious Transaction Reporting.

• Establish consistent governance standards, documentation requirements, and operational controls to ensure regulatory alignment across markets.

• Identify emerging AML risk typologies and direct the development of analytic methods, and escalation criteria.

• Conduct comprehensive enterprise-wide AML risk assessments and implement robust remediation plans to address identified vulnerabilities.

• Serve as the principal liaison for internal audits, external regulatory examinations, and law enforcement inquiries related to money laundering.

Transaction Monitoring, Fraud & Ecosystem Defense

• Design and manage Transaction Monitoring frameworks to identify suspicious activities and financial crime typologies across the global platform.

• Extend Transaction Monitoring capabilities to function as a holistic defense mechanism, integrating preventative controls over fraud, Trust and Safety, and payment anomalies.

• Support the design and operation of monitoring mechanisms for fraud, seller abuse, or related risk indicators, coordinating with internal functions as needed.

• Partner with engineering and data teams to deploy advanced monitoring rules and real-time detection solutions to protect the platform's ecosystem.

Sanctions Compliance Management

• Lead global sanctions screening for new and existing partners/customers and ensure compliance with U.S., U.K., E.U., and other applicable sanctions regimes.

• Oversee sanctions system configuration, alert review procedures, and escalation protocols to maintain screening accuracy and defensibility.

• Implement and manage comprehensive e-commerce sanctions controls beyond entity screening, including IP geolocation blocking, restricted delivery address logic, and cross-border shipping restrictions for high-risk regions.

• Provide guidance to business teams on sanctions implications for customers, products, and market expansion.

• Monitor real-time geopolitical developments and proactively update internal sanctions policies to mitigate emerging jurisdictional risks.

• Establish ongoing testing and calibration routines for screening tools to minimize false positives and optimize tools.

Regulatory Advisory & Compliance Awareness

• Continuously assess evolving legal and regulatory requirements across multiple global jurisdictions to ensure the compliance framework remains robust and current.

• Provide strategic advice, interpretation, and counsel to business units and executive leadership on applicable AML, Sanctions, and Financial Crime obligations.

• Design, implement, and oversee comprehensive compliance training and awareness programs tailored to relevant teams and departments, fostering a proactive culture of risk management.

Cross-Functional Compliance Support

• Provide support across adjacent compliance domains including ESG reporting.

• Act as a senior compliance advisor for major strategic initiatives, ensuring that financial crime controls are seamlessly embedded into new market launches and platform features.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and progressive experience in Compliance, with strong exposure to AML, sanctions, or financial crime risk management and related compliance domains. Certifications like CAMS and CGSS are a plus.
• Experienced in designing and scaling compliance programs across multiple jurisdictions and compliance areas.
• Strong understanding of global regulatory frameworks related to AML and Sanctions.
• Familiarity with ESG and sustainability reporting; CSRD experience is a plus.
• Proven ability to build intelligence-driven monitoring programs and high-quality control environments.
• Skilled stakeholder manager with excellent communication and influence capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments with complex global regulatory expectations.
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and capable of driving cross-functional initiatives at senior levels.