Global Risk Mining & Investigations Lead

Remitly; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health, dental, and vision + 401k

Paid parental leave

Mental Health & Family Benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Continuing education

Job summary

Remitly is seeking a senior financial crimes leader to build and run a global intelligence and investigations program within our Compliance function. You will own typologies, detection strategies, governance, and liaison with law enforcement across jurisdictions.

We value 10+ years in financial crime, executive communication, and hands-on data skills (SQL). You will lead a distributed team, partner with Data Science and Engineering, and drive high‑risk investigations while maintaining regulatory

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial crime, including time in regulatory or FIU roles or senior financial crime function at a global institution.
• Deep experience with high-risk typologies: trafficking, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, money laundering.
• Experience building law enforcement relationships, information sharing frameworks, and public-private partnerships.
• Proven track record leading complex investigations end to end with regulatory or reputational risk.
• Experience building a specialist intelligence capability within an existing financial crimes program.
• Ability to translate intelligence into detection logic; hands-on SQL and collaboration with data science.
• Executive-level communication; ability to brief boards and federal agents alike.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and disciplined confidence assessment.

Responsibilities

• Own Remitly's typology and threat intelligence program and product set for internal and external use.
• Define detection scenarios and features; partner with Transaction Monitoring, Data Science, and Engineering.
• Lead strategic investigations pipeline for highest severity and sensitivity matters.
• Govern intelligence findings into durable controls rather than one-off cases.
• Serve as Remitly's senior point of contact for law enforcement and FIUs; build partnerships.
• Deliver precise briefings to executives; ensure documentation and audit readiness.
• Build and lead a globally distributed intelligence team; define tradecraft and standards.
• Operate AI-enabled tooling and establish guardrails for model-assisted analysis.

Skills

SQL

Executive communication

Financial crime expertise

Leadership

Regulatory engagement

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM Labs

Elliptic

Job description

Remitly is seeking a senior financial crimes leader to build and run a global intelligence and investigations program within our Compliance function. You will own typologies, detection strategies, governance, and liaison with law enforcement across jurisdictions.

We value 10+ years in financial crime, executive communication, and hands-on data skills (SQL). You will lead a distributed team, partner with Data Science and Engineering, and drive high‑risk investigations while maintaining regulatory