Head of Global Transaction Monitoring

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.

We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

Remitly's transaction monitoring program runs across our licensed jurisdictions and more than 170 receive countries, against a product set that keeps growing. Every new license, product, corridor, and rail changes what has to be monitored, and every regulator we answer to has its own expectations about how.

This role owns the intellectual center of that program: the policy, the standards behind the procedures, and the coverage methodology that determines which financial crime typologies are monitored, how, and to what standard, worldwide. You are accountable for the answer to the question every examiner eventually asks, which is how Remitly knows its monitoring covers the risk it actually has. You do not run the investigative queues.

You define what the queues are looking for and prove the coverage holds as the business, the regulations, and the threat all move.

• Own the global transaction monitoring policy and the standards governing scenario design, thresholds, tuning, model validation, documentation, and change control.
• Set the procedural standards that regional and operational teams execute against, and oversee local variations required by jurisdictional obligations without fragmenting the global program.
• Maintain the control documentation and evidence set that demonstrates the program's design and operating effectiveness to examiners, auditors, and partner bank due diligence.

• Own Remitly's transaction monitoring coverage methodology: the framework that maps financial crime typologies to products, geographies, channels, and rails, and establishes what constitutes adequate coverage for each.
• Maintain the coverage assessment as a living artifact, with defensible rationale for what is in scope, what is out, and why.
• Identify and quantify coverage gaps and false negative exposure, prioritize them against risk, and drive remediation to closure with accountable owners.
• Direct scenario strategy: what gets built, retired, retuned, or replaced, and on what evidence.

• Establish the intake process that captures signals from regulators, examinations, partner banks, regional compliance teams, the strategic investigations function, and industry bodies, and converts them into coverage decisions.
• Own the assessment of regulatory change for monitoring impact, and drive the resulting scenario, threshold, and procedural changes on a schedule that meets the obligation.
• Assess new products, corridors, payment rails, and partner arrangements for monitoring implications before launch, and set the coverage requirements they must meet.
• Respond to emerging typologies and industry risk intelligence with concrete changes to detection rather than acknowledgment.

• Define and operate the metrics that demonstrate…