KYC Ops Specialist: Automate, Improve, Govern

AngelList, LLC; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AngelList is seeking a KYC Operations Associate to own the standard for investor verification and onboarding. You’ll operate in a fast-paced tech environment, handling end-to-end KYC reviews, expediting decisions with auditors in mind, and partnering with engineering/compliance to push policy and product improvements.

Reporting to an Operations Manager on our banking operations team, you’ll own queue work, serve as a subject matter expert, and drive automation as the volume and complexity grow.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in KYC/AML operations, customer due diligence, or financial compliance at a fintech, bank, or fund administrator.
• Precise by default; mistakes in this work touch sensitive data and real money, and you catch your own before anyone else has to.
• Can work a high-volume queue without your accuracy eroding, and write decisions an auditor could follow.
• Operate independently with broad scope, and don't need a fully defined lane to be effective.
• Are energized rather than unsettled when the tools change under you.
• You reach for automation before you reach for a checklist and you have a point of view on how AI changes this work.

Responsibilities

• Run KYC/KYB/CDD reviews end to end. Verify individual and entity investors, including identity, beneficial ownership, and sanctions/PEP/adverse media screening, accurately and within SLA, through volume spikes.
• Make the hard calls. Disposition screening hits and layered ownership structures, escalate cases needing enhanced due diligence, and document every decision well enough that an auditor could reconstruct it.
• Be the expert. Serve as a consistent, reliable KYC resource for internal teams and external stakeholders, with answers people can build on.
• Fix the system. Turn queue pain points into shipped product improvements with engineering and adapt to compliance policy changes.
• Design the system that replaces the queue. Build agents and automations against real KYC volume, watch where they fail, and iterate. You'll be expected to contribute to architecting this, not adopting it.

Skills

KYC/AML operations

CIP

CDD/EDD

Beneficial ownership

Sanctions/PEP screening

Auditing mindset

Automation mindset

Job description

AngelList is seeking a KYC Operations Associate to own the standard for investor verification and onboarding. You’ll operate in a fast-paced tech environment, handling end-to-end KYC reviews, expediting decisions with auditors in mind, and partnering with engineering/compliance to push policy and product improvements.

Reporting to an Operations Manager on our banking operations team, you’ll own queue work, serve as a subject matter expert, and drive automation as the volume and complexity grow.