VP, Financial Crimes Advisory

Location: New York, NY; Boston, MA; or Charlotte, NC

Base salary: $200,000–$250,000 per year, plus potential equity, bonuses, commission, and benefits.

Company

AI-driven risk intelligence platform helping organizations detect and investigate financial crime, manage compliance risk, and uncover hidden threats across complex data environments.

What you will do

• Advise senior client stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, AML, and Sanctions functions.
• Lead discovery, solution design, capability mapping, executive presentations, and points of view during complex enterprise sales cycles.
• Define and evolve financial crime solutions focused on sanctions screening, compliance, payments risk, and transaction monitoring.
• Translate market needs into scalable solution frameworks and provide client and market feedback to Product for roadmap development.
• Represent the organization through white papers, industry insights, conference presentations, and client briefings.
• Enable Sales with messaging, positioning, domain expertise, value propositions, and strategic partnership support.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in financial crimes, risk, compliance, or related technology.
• Experience with financial institutions, consulting or advisory firms, and/or financial crime technology providers.
• Deep expertise in sanctions and sanctions screening technologies, false-positive reduction, and regulatory expectations.
• Strong understanding of cross-border payments, correspondent banking, the SWIFT ecosystem, payment flows, risks, and controls.
• Broad knowledge of AML, fraud, KYC, and transaction monitoring, with proven success supporting or leading complex enterprise sales cycles.
• Exceptional executive communication and storytelling, business-to-technical translation skills, commercial acumen, and a hands-on execution mindset.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on AI-driven financial crime prevention in a highly visible advisory role.
• Competitive salary and company equity.
• Exceptional benefits package and employer-matched 401(k) plan.
• Flexible vacation and paid time off.
• Collaborative, fast-moving environment with work-life balance valued.