Compliance Lead

The role

This person will turn complex regulations into structured, machine-readable logic for AI agents. They will partner with customers to design products that remove compliance bottlenecks and collaborate with engineering to ensure products are explainable and compliant.

What you will do

• Define how agents think by turning complex regulations into structured, machine-readable logic
• Ensure logic works across jurisdictions, languages, and edge cases
• Partner with customers to understand compliance processes
• Design products that remove bottlenecks by mapping workflows and refining alerts
• Improve output quality and accuracy
• Build transparency into every decision
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure product decisions are explainable and compliant

Required qualifications

• 3–5 years in AML, risk, or compliance roles at a bank, fintech, or regtech
• Knowledge of how investigations, onboarding, and escalations work
• Ability to translate regulatory logic into product requirements
• Ability to deconstruct manual review processes and design scalable automation
• Ability to use metrics to understand issues and find patterns

Benefits

• Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual offsite
• Paid relocation & one-month temporary housing
• Latest tech and as many monitors as you can fit on a desk

Before you apply

• Intro call
• Case Study
• Fit call

About the company

Sphinx builds AI analysts that work inside browsers and internal systems to automate AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring. The team in SF includes PhDs, industry experts, and competitive coders.