Senior Program Manager – Technical, AML & Verification (Fintech)

Location: Seattle, WA, United States of America; hybrid work with onsite attendance Tuesday through Thursday each week

Salary: $136,000–$170,000 gross annual base salary, plus equity and other compensation components

Company

hirify.global provides secure digital financial services for customers sending money globally, including remittance, wallet, and lending products.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of financial crime controls, from requirements and design through configuration, launch testing, and effectiveness reviews.
• Design and execute first-line-of-defense testing programs, including above-the-line and below-the-line testing, synthetic true-positive generation, and statistically defensible sampling.
• Tune and calibrate detection thresholds and matching criteria while balancing false-negative risk, alert volume, operational capacity, and customer experience.
• Lead vendor implementations and migrations, including parallel runs, discrepancy analysis, and cutover decisions.
• Translate regulatory requirements and risk insights into business and system requirements while partnering with Compliance, Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Operations.
• Maintain audit and regulatory examination readiness, build monitoring dashboards and automated alarms, and support incident response and new product risk assessments.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in program management, risk control ownership, or detection-system tuning within AML, financial crime, fraud, or a related regulated domain.
• End-to-end ownership of a detection or decisioning system and experience proving that controls work, including identifying what systems miss.
• Technical fluency in writing and interpreting BRDs and collaborating with engineering and data analytics teams.
• Intermediate-to-advanced analytics skills and the ability to independently analyze operational and risk-control data.
• Strong written communication, stakeholder management, and ability to create documentation suitable for auditors, validators, and regulators.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, risk management, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience; demonstrated use of AI tooling in analytical or compliance work.

Nice to have

• Experience with AML control systems, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, KYC, document verification, or customer risk rating.
• Knowledge of fuzzy matching, transliteration, multicultural naming conventions, secondary identifier logic, and entity resolution.
• Experience with vendor screening or monitoring platforms, model risk management, or independent validation.
• Background in fraud rule tuning, identity graphs, search relevance, fintech, payments, or remittance products.

Culture & Benefits

• Connected Work Culture with regular in-person collaboration and hybrid-work expectations.
• Flexible paid time off and paid parental, medical, military, and family-care leave.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage with a 401(k) plan and company matching.
• Mental health and family-forming benefits, employee stock purchase plan, and continuing education benefits.
• Equity participation as part of total compensation.