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We’re building it.\nBanks, fintechs, and payments companies spend billions every year on audits and independent testing they need to operate. Most of that work still runs through spreadsheets, document requests, email, and professional hours.\nClusia is building a different kind of firm. We deliver the assurance work ourselves, while proprietary software handles more of the evidence collection, preparation, and testing. Experienced professionals review the full engagement, make the judgment calls, and sign the final work.\nWe currently provide ACH audits and BSA/AML independent testing and are expanding across the regulatory assurance work financial companies buy every year.\nClusia was founded by Reed Switzer, founder of Hopscotch, which was acquired by Avalara, and Nolan Hendrickson, who previously led engineering teams within Microsoft Defender. We are venture-backed and building a small, high-talent-density team.\nThe Role\nWe’re looking for someone to lead Clusia’s BSA/AML independent testing practice.\nThis is not a role where you inherit an established practice and manage it. You’ll help define the methodology, conduct and oversee engagements, work directly with customers, and build the systems that allow the practice to scale.\nYou’ll work closely with our product and engineering teams to turn the way great BSA/AML testing is performed into software. The goal is to reduce the manual work surrounding an engagement without lowering the standard of the work itself.\nEarly on, you’ll be close to nearly everything: customers, testing, product, hiring, and business development. As the practice grows, you’ll build the team and own the business line.\nWhy Join\nCompliance tech is next up. We believe compliance is entering the same kind of transformation legal tech has seen over the last two years: large, high-stakes workflows being rebuilt around AI, collaboration, and better systems of record.\n\nWe’re building a small, high-talent-density team. Clusia will remain lean by design. There will be few openings and the bar for talent is incredibly high.\n\nYour work will matter at global scale. The systems we’re building will power critical operations for some of the largest financial institutions and technology companies in the world.\n\nYou’ll work with founders who have done this before. The founding team has built and sold venture-backed companies in the past and is applying those lessons to build Clusia with focus, urgency, and ambition.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn BSA/AML independent testing. Lead engagements from scoping through fieldwork, findings, management responses, and final reporting.\n\nBuild the methodology. Define Clusia’s testing programs, workpapers, sampling approaches, evidence standards, and quality-control process.\n\nBuild the product with us. Work directly with product, design, and engineering to turn manual testing workflows into software and increase the number of engagements each professional can support.\n\nMaintain a high bar for quality. Ensure every engagement is defensible, well-documented, risk-based, and suitable for sophisticated financial institutions and their regulators.\n\nBuild the practice. Help hire and develop the BSA/AML team as customer volume grows.\n\nWork directly with customers. Become a trusted counterpart to compliance leaders at fintechs, payments companies, and banks.\n\nExpand what we offer. Help identify and build adjacent independent testing and regulatory assurance services where Clusia can deliver a meaningfully better experience.\n\nHelp grow the business. 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