Own the compliance program behind every Shield client and payment.

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 stablecoins 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.

We run compliance to manage real risk at scale and to help the company grow. Every control has to reduce a risk we can name. Markets that look difficult from the outside, like Venezuela, are ones we work to understand, de-risk and win.

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.

The job

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.
• Growth: Find the path to yes on hard clients and markets, with controls that match the actual risk.
• 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.

What success looks like

We expect impact from day one. There is no 90-day ramp.

Day one:

• Escalated onboarding and wallet cases coming to you
• Reviewing our policies and open partner requests

Week one:

• Decisions made and recorded without waiting on the founders
• The biggest risks to scale and the biggest blockers to growth mapped, with a plan for each

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

Not a fit

You treat compliance as a checklist, or your default answer to a hard market is no.

How we work

• Outcomes over activity: Results define success, measured by clear numbers. Here that means real risk reduced and new markets opened safely.
• World-class at your job: We hire you for one job and expect you to do it at a very high level.
• Radical candor: Feedback is direct and honest, and it goes both ways.
• Impact from day one: You deliver value from your first day, and feedback comes often in your first months.
• Solve before escalating: Research it yourself first. When you escalate, bring a proposed fix.
• Launch early and iterate: Ship a simple version fast, get feedback and improve it.