BSA Operations Manager

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Catena Labs seeks a Senior Compliance Engineer to run the daily compliance engine for client onboarding, due diligence, and transaction monitoring across fiat and digital assets. You will own sanctions screening, investigations, and regulatory filings while shaping automation and model-driven monitoring.

The role emphasizes human judgment in defining suspicious activity, documenting reasoning, and ensuring exam readiness. Experience in AI-enabled monitoring and digital assets analytics is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial crimes within banks or regulated fintechs.
• Ownership of alert and case workflows from triage to resolution.
• Ability to produce examination-ready documentation and regulatory filings.

Responsibilities

• Run daily compliance engine for onboarding, due diligence, and transaction monitoring across fiat and digital assets.
• Oversee screenings for sanctions and OFAC; manage investigations and SAR filings.
• Supervise analysts as the bank grows; help design and tune monitoring tools and processes.

Skills

Financial crimes

Bank/reg fintech experience

Alert/workflow ownership

Examination-ready documentation

Team leadership

AI/ML in monitoring

Digital assets analytics

Tools

AML monitoring platforms

SAR databases

OFAC screening tools

Job description

This role runs the daily compliance engine for a trust bank: client onboarding and due diligence, transaction monitoring across fiat and digital assets, sanctions screening, investigations, and regulatory filings. A strong candidate has years of hands on financial crimes work at a bank or regulated fintech, owns alert and case workflows, and writes clean examination ready records. The posting also asks for comfort building a function from scratch and supervising analysts as the bank grows.

How it fits the AI era

AI agents moving money create more transactions and more counterparties to screen, so monitoring and alert triage will lean on automation and models. Judgment stays human: deciding what is suspicious, documenting the reasoning, and answering examiners. The manager shapes how those tools are tuned and trusted rather than replacing the core compliance work.

How it builds AI experience

The company builds a platform for AI agents to transact safely, so this role sits where agent activity meets financial crimes controls. Experience tuning monitoring or screening systems, including ones using AI or machine learning, is a plus, as is digital asset and blockchain analytics familiarity. Building that means learning how agent driven payments look in monitoring data and how screening rules hold up.

Worth showing

• BSA AML sanctions ownership
• SAR investigation and filing
• OFAC screening operations
• Examination ready documentation

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About Catena Labs

Regulated banking and governance platform built for AI agents to handle financial transactions safely, per the company.