Sanctions Operations Associate

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role Rippling is seeking a Sanctions Operations Associate to join our growing Financial Crime Compliance Team. A core part of this role is the review and disposition of sanctions screening alerts. You will evaluate matches generated by Rippling’s automated screening program, applying sound analytical judgment to distinguish true matches from false positives, escalate confirmed hits, and maintain clear documentation throughout the alert lifecycle.

This includes assessing name, geography, and ownership-based hits across OFAC and international sanctions lists, and ensuring disposition rationales meet audit and regulatory standards. You will also support sanctions due diligence reviews of existing customers, prospects, and third-party partners, helping ensure alignment with Rippling’s risk appetite and applicable sanctions regulations.

Due diligence reviews involve research using open-source, proprietary, and third-party tools, reviewing sanctions-related adverse media, and drafting targeted outreach and escalation questions. You will contribute to risk analyses across a broad spectrum of sanctions exposure and work closely with teams across the organization, including the Compliance FCC Team, KYC, Sales, Implementation, Legal, and Product.

What You Will Do Review and disposition sanctions screening alerts generated through Rippling’s screening program; evaluating potential matches against OFAC and international sanctions lists, assessing name, geography, and ownership-based hits, applying risk-based judgment to distinguish true positives from false positives, and escalating confirmed or high-risk matches with clear, well-documented rationales

Support end-to-end sanctions due diligence reviews of customers, prospects, and third-party partners, from initial screening through risk determination and resolution

Conduct research across open-source, proprietary, and third-party tools, including adverse media analysis and sanctions nexus assessments for complex entities and ownership structures

Participate in customer-facing due diligence calls and help develop targeted outreach and escalation questions that surface meaningful risk Contribute to the policies, procedures, and operational frameworks that support Rippling’s sanctions due diligence program

Produce clear, well-reasoned sanctions risk analyses and governance documentation

Work cross-functionally with the EDD Team, Sales, Implementation, Legal, and Product to keep sanctions risk visible and actionable across the business

Stay current on OFAC and international sanctions developments and support translation of regulatory change into practical guidance for the team Support internal sanctions training and help answer sanctions questions from business units

What You Will Need2-4 years experience conducting sanctions alert investigations and risk…