Fincrime Operations Lead

• You reach for code before a queue. When you see an alert pattern, your first instinct is "what rule or model should have decisioned this?" — not "we need more analysts."

• You want to build the BSA/AML engine, not staff one. Compliance writes the specs. You translate them into decisioning logic, investigation flows, and agents that run cases. If you've watched fincrime programs scale linearly with volume and thought this is solvable, this is the job where you solve it.

• You can sit between Compliance and Engineering and speak both languages. You take a CCO's risk appetite and turn it into something a system can execute, with audit trails by default. Neither side has to translate for you.

• You want to ship into production, not write memos about shipping. Transaction monitoring, sanctions, SAR pipelines — these become code you author, deploy, and version. If you've been the person whose best ideas died in a vendor procurement cycle, you'll appreciate that here you build them.

• You want decisions that are actually yours. You report to the COO, partner daily with the BSA Officer and CCO, and own the machine end-to-end. This suits someone who's hit the ceiling of executing other people's compliance roadmaps.

• You measure your impact by the size of your team. Success here looks like alert volume going up while headcount stays flat. A growing analyst org is the failure mode, not the goal.

• You prefer a mature program to a blank page. No Actimize tuned over five years, no investigations playbook to inherit, no QA team standing by. You'll be designing the system, not optimizing within one.

• You see Compliance as a constraint to work around. The BSA Officer and CCO are your closest partners and they own the requirements. If "Compliance said no" is a phrase you've used with frustration rather than respect, the partnership won't work.

• You want to spend most of your time on cases. You'll know the alert landscape intimately, but the bulk of your week is building decisioning logic, specifying agents, and shaping infrastructure with Product and Engineering.

• "Operations designed so the work doesn't emerge" sounds like a marketing line to you. The dark bank thesis shapes every decision. Skepticism that fincrime ops can run this way means rowing against the current daily.

• 3+ years in a fast-paced environment.

• Building products or processes at a bank, fintech, payments, or crypto company, or a tier 1 consulting background with regulated financial services exposure.

• AI native.

Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000-$180,000 + equity.