Senior Manager of Sanctions (Fintech)

Location: Remote

Salary: $180K–$250K plus equity

Company

Polymarket operates a peer-to-peer prediction market platform for trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs.

What you will do

• Own and continuously enhance the U.S. sanctions compliance framework, including policies, procedures, governance, risk assessments, controls, escalation standards, and documentation.
• Lead the end-to-end sanctions screening framework for customers, transactions, counterparties, beneficial owners, and related parties.
• Build and manage the sanctions screening team, including staffing, workflows, service levels, quality standards, and performance expectations.
• Oversee sanctions alert investigations, dispositions, escalations, blocked or prohibited activity decisions, and regulatory reporting where required.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, KYC, AML, Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations to embed and improve sanctions controls.
• Use AI and automation to improve screening and alert-review effectiveness while maintaining human oversight, testing, and governance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of sanctions, financial crimes, AML, or related compliance experience, including significant direct responsibility for U.S. economic sanctions.
• Deep expertise in OFAC regulations, sanctions programs, and guidance.
• Experience building or leading both a sanctions program and sanctions or financial-crime screening operations within a regulated financial institution, FinTech, broker-dealer, derivatives firm, payments company, or similarly complex environment.
• Combined sanctions advisory and operational leadership experience, including the ability to interpret complex requirements and manage execution teams and processes.
• Experience with AI, automation, and emerging technologies in sanctions screening, alert review, investigations, or related financial-crime processes, with appropriate governance, testing, and human oversight.
• Hands-on experience with screening, alert investigation, escalation, disposition, and blocked or rejected transaction analysis.
• Experience designing or overseeing screening systems, including matching logic, tuning, testing, list management, QA/QC, and false-positive reduction.
• Experience establishing operational metrics, productivity expectations, quality programs, escalation frameworks, and queue-management processes.
• Experience advising on sanctions risks involving customers, counterparties, jurisdictions, transactions, products, and new business initiatives, including ownership and control considerations and OFAC's 50 Percent Rule.
• Experience drafting sanctions policies, procedures, risk assessments, escalation standards, and operational documentation, and supporting regulatory exams, audits, investigations, or independent testing.
• Strong judgment, independent assessment and escalation skills, and exceptional written and verbal communication with senior leadership and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment and build a program and operations function while the business scales.

Nice to have

• Prior experience at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
• Experience at a CFTC- or NFA-registered entity, including a DCM, DCO, or FCM.
• Experience with digital assets, blockchain analytics, or sanctions risks associated with crypto or blockchain-based activity.
• Experience implementing or enhancing sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media screening technology.
• Experience building a screening operations function from the ground up.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time role within the Financial Crimes organization.
• Competitive salary with equity.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) match.
• New MacBook Pro, display, and accessories provided.