Senior Director, Financial Crimes Monitoring

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

What you’ll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence and High Integrity. Circlers are consistently evolving in a remote world where strength in numbers fuels team success. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for: 

Circle is looking for a transaction and customer monitoring expert to join our Financial Crimes Compliance team. Reporting to the Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance, the Senior Director, Financial Crimes Monitoring, will own the end to end customer monitoring lifecycle, including transaction monitoring, investigations, and Suspicious Activity Reporting. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience design transaction monitoring systems and scenarios and overseeing investigations processes, and is looking to find creative approaches to detect and investigate financial crimes in the fast-changing crypto ecosystem.

What you'll work on: 

• Acting as primary architect for Circle’s global AML/CTF transaction monitoring program, including definition of scenarios, rules and thresholds.
• Being the primary decision maker on the best methods by which Circle will identify and address new and emerging typologies and trends, and monitor proactively for suspicious behavior.
• Overseeing the investigations processes globally, including alert driven reviews and proactive monitoring of customers and activity in all jurisdictions.
• Enhancing transaction monitoring based on SARs filed and broader ecosystem intelligence.
• Partnering with Compliance Data & Technology, Product, and Engineering teams to implement enhancements to the transaction monitoring systems.
• Driving scenario testing and tuning exercises to identify optimal transaction monitoring scenarios and thresholds.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the overall efficacy of the monitoring program, including but not limited to, use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect unusual activity and adjudicate alerts.
• Staying at the forefront of money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes regulations, risks and typologies, and technologies to detect suspicious activity.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle: 

• A passion for harnessing the power of digital currency and blockchain technology and services built on top of it.
• B.A./B.S. degree; quantitative or technical degree a plus.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in AML/CFT, with a minimum of 5+ years developing transaction monitoring programs.
• 10+ years of experience managing and leading teams. 
• Deep knowledge of global financial crimes transaction monitoring programs and systems.
• Deep understanding of cryptocurrency transactions, risks and typologies.
• Experience with blockchain analytics and monitoring platforms, such as TRM Labs, Chainalysis or Elliptic.
• Thorough understanding of investigations processes and tools, and Suspicious Activity Reporting requirements in the U.S. and beyond.
• An innovative an