Financial Crime Strategy Lead - Amsterdam

Our mission is to make sending and receiving money effortless, borderless, and instantaneous. Morse lets you pay anyone, anywhere, by name alone – no more worrying about IBANs, account numbers, or sort codes. Leveraging blockchain technology to settle transfers, we are currently available in over 150 countries.

Morse is the first product from Avian Labs Inc., backed by VCs like Union Square Ventures, Slow Ventures, and Ribbit Capital.

Our mission is to make sending and receiving money effortless, borderless, and instantaneous. Morse lets you pay anyone, anywhere, by name alone – no more worrying about IBANs, account numbers, or sort codes. Leveraging blockchain technology to settle transfers, we are currently available in over 150 countries.

Morse is the first product from Avian Labs Inc., backed by VCs like Union Square Ventures, Slow Ventures, and Ribbit Capital.

As Financial Crime Strategy and Product Lead, you'll own the roadmap for how we detect and prevent financial crime — fraud, money laundering, and sanctions risk — across our markets. You'll set the strategy and standard for our fraud investigations, work with product/engineering to build tooling, and work closely with compliance to ensure that we’re managing activity across our platform.

This is a role for a data-driven operator who can move fluently between deep-dive analysis into emerging threats and the strategic, cross-functional work of turning those insights into a scalable detection system.

We are open to hiring for this role in either London or Amsterdam.

• Own the financial crime roadmap. Set and drive the strategy for how we detect and prevent fraud, money laundering, and sanctions risk — translating regulatory obligations and emerging threats into a prioritised, buildable plan.
• Manage controls with data, not instinct. Take ownership of our financial crime rulesets and controls, using data to decide what to ship, tune, or retire. Measure control performance (detection rates, false positives, precision) and continuously improve the balance between risk coverage and customer experience.
• Build the detection platform. Define the requirements for our fraud and AML detection systems and work hand-in-hand with engineering to build tooling that catches financial crime effectively and efficiently, without creating unnecessary friction for legitimate users.
• Run deep-dive investigations. Lead detailed analysis into suspected fraud and financial crime — identifying typologies, quantifying exposure, and turning what you find into new detection logic and controls.
• Turn threats into countermeasures. Stay ahead of evolving fraud and money laundering typologies across our markets, and design the rules, models, and workflows to counter them before they scale.
• Work across the company. Partner closely with product, engineering, data, operations, and compliance to make sure financial crime controls are built into the product — and communicate risk, trade-offs, and priorities clearly to both technical and senior audiences.
• Measure and report on what matters. Define the metrics that show whether our financial crime programme is working, and build the reporting that gives the business and leadership a clear view of risk and performance.

• A strong data and analytics background. You're a genuinely data-driven decision-maker — comfortable getting into the numbers yourself (SQL or similar), interrogating data to find patterns, and using evidence rather than instinct to decide what to build, tune, or retire.
• Deep investigative instinct. You can lead detailed analysis into suspected fraud and financial crime, quantify exposure, and translate what you find into concrete detection logic. You have a…