Head of Compliance

The opportunity:

Our clients are importers, exporters and wholesalers moving six and seven figure payments across borders, many between the US and Latin America. Shield gives them USD accounts settled on stable coins and a Visa business card built around inventory spend. Every client and every payment goes through our compliance program, so your decisions shape what clients can do and how fast. The program is built and running: written BSA/AML policies, KYB and KYC onboarding, wallet screening, transaction monitoring and a team of analysts, with AI agents doing the repetitive work and people reviewing it.

What it needs now is one owner. The seat becomes Chief Compliance Officer as we scale.

You own the compliance program, day-to-day operations, and key decisions.

• Program:
  You're our designated BSA/AML Officer and own the policies, procedures and risk model.
• Decisions:
  Final call on escalated onboarding, wallet and monitoring cases, SARs included, with a clear record of why.
• Team:
  Our compliance analysts report to you, and their escalations come to you.
• Partners: you represent our program to banks and payment partners: due diligence, RFIs and audits.
• Systems:
  Workflows and AI agents that let analysts move fast while you approve what matters.

By day 90:
Compliance running day to day without the founders;
Faster onboarding and review decisions;
Wallet screening calibrated to a clear risk appetite

By month 12:
Clean partner reviews and audits;
Program ready for new partners and markets;
Your team hired and trained