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Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer / BSA Officer, the Manager owns customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, screening, investigations, and regulatory reporting, and grows the analyst team as the Trust Bank scales. This is a chance to build a financial-crimes function from the ground up at the intersection of AI, stablecoins, and regulated banking.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nOwn client onboarding: run know-your-business onboarding and due diligence for new clients.\n\nRun ongoing monitoring: manage risk-based CDD refresh and transaction monitoring across fiat and digital assets.\n\nOperate sanctions and risk screening within the Trust Bank’s compliance gate, along with the resulting reporting.\n\nInvestigate suspicious activity and own regulatory reporting and record-keeping, plus management and Board reporting for the areas you own.\n\nMaintain funds-transfer and Travel Rule compliance across all transaction types.\n\nDesign and deliver BSA/AML and Sanctions training to the team, and support the BSA Officer in developing training for Management and the Board.\n\nSupervise and grow the BSA/AML analyst team and support independent testing and examinations.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BRING\n7+ years of hands-on BSA/AML/Sanctions experience at a bank, trust company, or regulated fintech, with direct ownership of CIP/CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, OFAC screening, and SAR investigation and filing.\n\nStrong command of the Bank Secrecy Act, FinCEN regulations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and funds-transfer and Travel Rule recordkeeping.\n\nExperience operating or tuning transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems and managing alert and case workflows.\n\nClear writing, examination-ready documentation, and sharp investigative judgment.\n\nComfort in ambiguous, build-from-scratch environments, with a desire to help define the process, not just run it.\n\nNICE TO HAVE\nAML and Sanctions experience in a digital-asset context, including familiarity with leading blockchain analytics tools (e.g., Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic).\n\nExperience at a national trust bank or other OCC-regulated institution, or through a de novo charter and early examinations.\n\nExperience related to implementing systems that leverage AI and ML to increase quality and productivity within the function.\n\nCAMS, CFCS, or comparable certification.\n\nExperience supervising or building a team.\n\nJOIN US\nIf you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of what AI agents can do in financial services and want to be part of building the trusted financial infrastructure for the agentic economy, we want to hear from you. 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