Senior Program Manager - Technical, AML & Verification

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager - Technical to join our Verification Program team within the Identity & Trust organization.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end control lifecycle management, including requirements definition, control design, configuration, pre-launch testing, and post-launch effectiveness review.
• Design and execute FLOD testing programs — above-the-line and below-the-line testing, synthetic true-positive generation, and periodic effectiveness reviews — and size samples so that findings are statistically defensible.
• Own the tuning and calibration of detection thresholds and matching criteria, balancing false negative risk against alert volume, operational capacity, and customer experience, and document the rationale behind every change.
• Lead vendor implementations and migrations, including parallel running, discrepancy root-cause analysis, and go/no-go criteria for cutover.
• Translate risk insights and regulatory requirements into business and system requirements (BRDs), partnering with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to operationalize scalable solutions.
• Serve as the expert on your control systems — maintaining continuity for incident response, audit requests, regulatory exams, and new product risk assessments.
• Drive and maintain audit and exam readiness, ensuring evidence documentation, traceability, and control mapping across your pillar.
• Develop deep industry knowledge in your control areas including best practices, emerging vendor capabilities, and upcoming regulatory and risk trends, and bring that perspective into our roadmap.
• Partner with our compliance team on requirements interpretation, effectiveness challenge, and independent validation of your control changes.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in program management, risk control ownership, or detection system tuning within AML, FinCrime, fraud, or an adjacent regulated domain.
• Strong grounding in how to prove a control is working, including how to test for what a system is missing, not just what it flags.
• Technical fluency, with the ability to interpret and write BRDs and collaborate substantively with engineering and data analytics teams.
• Intermediate-to-advanced analytics skills and comfort independently analyzing operational and risk control data.
• Excellent written communication, with the ability to produce documentation that is durable and defensible to auditors, validators, and regulators.
• Able to context-switch across product, compliance, and operational domains and provide structured clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Demonstrated use of AI tooling to accelerate analytical or compliance work, with clear judgment about where automation is and is not appropriate in a regulated control.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across global time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, risk management, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Direct experience with AML control systems, including sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, KYC and document verification, or customer risk rating.
• Familiarity with name matching and entity resolution: fuzzy matching algorithms, transliteration and multicultural naming conventions, secondary identifier logic, and list management.
• Experience with vendor screening or monitoring platforms.
• Experience in a model risk management or independent validation context.
• Adjacent detection-tuning backgrounds are welcome — fraud rule tuning, entity resolution, identity graph, or search relevance work translates well to this role.
• Prior experience with fintech, payments, or remittance products.

Skills

• Strong project management and leadership skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards.
• Proficiency in data analysis and statistical methods.
• Experience with regulatory reporting and audit processes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Benefits

The starting base salary range for this position is $136,000 - $170,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.