Remitly
Head of Global Risk Mining & Strategic Investigations
Seattle, Washington United States · Senior
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About the role
- Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money- we're here to move our global customers forward.
- We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation.
- If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career-we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
Responsibilities
- You will define your own operating model, the analytic tradecraft, the intelligence product set, and the external engagement posture.
- Own Remitly's authoritative view of high risk financial crime typologies across corridors, products, and channels, including the indicators and network signatures that make each one detectable.
- Build an intelligence product set for internal and external consumption, with explicit confidence levels and analytic judgments that hold up under regulatory and law enforcement scrutiny.
- Own the strategic investigations pipeline for the highest severity, most sensitive, and most novel matters, and refer findings into the business for control, product, and customer action.
- Build trusted-partner relationships, including public-private information sharing partnerships, industry working groups, and typology forums.
- Own reporting strategy for complex financial crime, including how findings escalate into suspicious activity reporting and how sensitive matters reach the Chief Compliance Officer, executive leadership, and board-level oversight.
- Deliver intelligence briefings to senior audiences that are precise, decision-oriented, and free of overstatement.
Requirements
- Define the scenarios, segmentation, and model features required to detect typologies the current control environment misses, and partner with Transaction Monitoring, Data Science, and Engineering to build them.
Compensation
- The starting base salary range for this position is typically $208,000-$260,000.
- In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.
- Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
- Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
- Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Continuing education
- Quantify and challenge coverage, identify false negative exposure, and drive remediation to closure.
Company info
- About the Role: Remitly moves money for millions of customers across more than 170 countries.
- Remitly moves money for millions of customers across more than 170 countries.
- At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them.
- Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind.
- At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together.
- At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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