Footprint

Deployment Strategist

New York City

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago

Detection EngineeringCompliance

About the role

Ideal candidates have both owned a financial crime program as an accountable officer and possess the ability to build in rules, thresholds, and system logic, offering a unique opportunity to shape how compliance can be both effective and practical.
As our first dedicated deployments hire, you will translate customer risk and compliance policies into a robust, repeatable Percy configuration, working closely with BSA officers and financial crime teams to turn their investigations and policies into actionable agent behavior-defining when Percy triggers RFIs or offboarding, tuning alert triage logic, and setting thresholds that meet risk tolerance and regulatory scrutiny.

Architect the compliance program around Percy. Map a customer's existing investigation workflows, find the gaps and inefficiencies, and design how Percy improves the broader program, RFI-vs-offboard logic, alert triage, new SOPs that Percy now makes possible.
Partner with sales pre-sale. Join deals to give compliance and technical credibility, scope deployments, and help prospects see what Percy makes possible before they sign. You're the person in the room a skeptical BSA officer believes.
Co-build the product. Be the field's voice inside the company, in the loop with product and engineering on what gets built and how, shaping the roadmap from the patterns you see across deployments.
Build the engine. Codify the calibration templates, playbooks, and systems that turn one-off deployments into a repeatable motion, and grow the function (and team) around it as we scale.
You want to build the thing, not just deploy it.
The strongest people for this role have felt the frustration of a compliance program that spends more time defending itself than fighting crime, and they want to build what fixes it.
Forward-deployed temperament. You own the customer outcome, you're comfortable with ambiguity, and you'd rather build the playbook than follow one. This is an early-stage role, that should excite you, not worry you.
From day one, you'll have direct ownership over strategic initiatives that drive the business forward.

You can take "we're conservative on crypto MSBs" and turn it into concrete logic, thresholds, and decision rules.
You can walk into a customer's compliance team, quickly understand how they actually operate, and lay out a credible path to better.
Earn BSA officers' confidence because you've held the seat, you speak their language, and you can credibly advise on how comparable institutions are solving the same problems.

Time embedded on the vendor side (regtech, compliance platform), ideally where you owned deployments into regulated institutions rather than advising from arm's length.
Hands-on familiarity with alert-generating platforms (NICE Actimize, Verafin, ComplyAdvantage, or similar).
Experience as a BSA officer, interim or permanent.
Background with community banks, regional banks, or mid-market fintechs.
Crypto / VASP compliance depth.
Massive impact, fast: You'll work on projects that shape company direction, not analysis that gets shelved.
Real growth opportunity: Promotion timelines depend on performance: the harder you work, the quicker you'll get promoted.
Winning team and culture: We're a fast-moving, no-BS team that likes to win (and have fun doing it).

Compliance teams at banks and fintechs are drowning in financial crimes investigations.
Percy learns each team's procedures and makes the same calls their analysts would:
clearing false positives, escalating real risk, writing the case narrative, and documenting every decision for audit.
It cuts review workloads by 70%+ and routinely catches fraud that human reviewers miss.

You'll work on projects that shape company direction, not analysis that gets shelved.
We're a fast-moving, no-BS team that likes to win (and have fun doing it).
Guide customers through setting up and iterating Percy's agent harness, translating their regulatory obligations and operational preferences into a finely tuned configuration.

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