Technical Lead – Financial Crime Compliance

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About the Role

Gusto is looking for a Technical Lead – Financial Crime Compliance Oversight to join our Financial Crime Compliance Oversight & Advisory organization. This role is responsible for the technical delivery and enablement of financial crime oversight capabilities, ensuring that the data, tooling, automation, and integrations supporting oversight are reliable, scalable, and audit-ready.

This role operates at the intersection of financial crime compliance, engineering enablement, data infrastructure, and responsible automation and AI governance. You will translate oversight requirements into technical specifications, own dashboards and metrics pipelines, coordinate delivery across Engineering and Product partners, and drive the implementation of monitoring, reporting, and vendor integrations that underpin the oversight program.

About the Team

The Financial Crime Compliance Oversight & Advisory team is responsible for second-line oversight of financial crime risk across Gusto’s products, jurisdictions, and regulatory obligations. The team designs and monitors controls, supports audits and exams, oversees remediation efforts, and partners closely with Operations, Product, Engineering, Risk, Legal, and external stakeholders.

As Gusto grows, effective oversight increasingly depends on strong technical foundations. This role exists to ensure those foundations are built and maintained intentionally.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day

• Translate financial crime oversight requirements into technical specifications and delivery plans, enabling Engineering teams to build and maintain automated and AI-enabled controls.

• Own financial crime oversight dashboards and metrics, ensuring data quality, automation, and the accuracy of weekly and monthly reporting used to monitor AI- and rules-based controls.

• Support financial crime (AML, EDD/KYC, Fraud) rule tuning, threshold updates, and AI-enabled control changes across internal systems and vendor implementations.

• Lead the build, rollout, and stabilization of oversight tooling and third-party integrations, including AI-powered transaction monitoring, screening, and case management systems.

• Implement logging, monitoring, and control instrumentation that support audits, regulatory exams, and governance of automated and AI-enabled controls.

• Lead the technical delivery of remediation-driven updates, ensuring AI- and automation-related changes produce reliable, reusable evidence for audits and exams.

• Partner directly with Product and Engineering counterparts to coordinate integrations, resolve dependencies, and embed AI-aware oversight requirements into system design and delivery.

Here’s what we’re looking for

• 6+ years of experience in technical program delivery, engineering enablement, or compliance-related technology roles within a regulated FinTech, payments, or financial services environment.

• Experience supporting automated, rules-based, or AI-enabled systems in regulated environments particularly AML transaction monitoring and screening systems.

• Experience translating regulatory or oversight requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Strong understanding of data pipelines, dashboards, system integrations, and monitoring infrastructure.

• Experience delivering and maintaining third-party vendor integrations.

• Ability to manage cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Product, Data, and Compliance teams.

• Strong communication skills and comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A builder mindset with strong execution discipline.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting audits, exams, or regulatory remediation efforts.

• Familiarity with AML, fraud, sanctions, or broader financial crime programs.

• Working knowledge of SQL, data visualization, or automation tools like Gumloop.

• CAMS Certification

Work Location & Compensation

This role is hybrid and based in one of Gusto’s offices in Denver, New York, or San Francisco, with in-office expectations of at least two days per week. This is not a remote role.

Our starting annual cash compensation amount for this role is between $110,000- 136,000 in Denver and $133,000- 164,000 for New York/San Francisco. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Compensation for this position also includes an equity package and performance bonuses.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

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