Fincrime Operations Lead

Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.

The dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand, but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter America’s first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute.

We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We're backed with $40M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum and founders of Ramp, Deel and Circle.

We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.

As Fincrime Operations Lead at Augustus, you build the machine that runs our BSA/AML monitoring program. Compliance writes the specs - the rules, the risk appetite, the policies. You build the system that executes them. Automating decisions and engaging humans only for the highest risk or knife‑edge decisions.

Your mission: take it from spec to production. You're building infrastructure - decisioning rules, automated investigation flows, agent‑run case handling, and audit trails by default. Transaction monitoring, sanctions, and SAR pipelines - all of it becomes code you author, deploy, and version.

We're building the dark bank - a bank that runs mostly autonomously, where operations are designed so the work doesn't emerge in the first place. Fincrime Ops is the sharpest expression of that thesis: legacy banks throw seas of analysts  design queues that shrink. Every alert you automate correctly is a flow that becomes machine‑runnable. Every alert you patch with headcount is a flow that compounds the wrong way.

It’s ultimately your goal that headcount does not scale with transaction volume.

You work across Operations, Product, and Compliance to shape how the bank handles risk in practice. You partner with the BSA Officer and CCO daily - they write the requirements, you build the machine. You are trusted with every decision you make.

In your first 6 months, you'll own the refinement and build out of Augustus' BSA/AML engine - a complete, documented system for how the bank detects, investigates, and dispositions risk at every stage from alert to filing. Tooling, SOPs, ownership, escalation paths, decisioning rules - and the agents that run them.

• Month 1–2: You get into the stack. You understand exactly how money moves through our infrastructure, where the current compliance controls sit, and where the gaps are. You build a clear picture of what needs to be automated, what needs to be replaced, and what can wait.

• Month 3–4: Ship the first wave of automations. Prove out the operating model on a live cohort. Drive measurable case‑handling lift.

• Month 5–6: Automation lives across the alert lifecycle. Optimize skills and human in the loop processes to start scaling.

We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

• Relentless: You can't leave something broken. You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.

• Set The Bar: You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be. You don't need external accountability to care about quality.

• Shape The Game: You don't wait for a playbook and you don't need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move before anyone asked you to.

• Systems First: You don't solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller. Your first instinct is to automate, not to handle it manually.

This job is for you, if

• You reach for code before a queue. When you see an alert pattern, your first instinct is "what rule or model should have…