Technical Lead for Financial Crime Compliance Oversight at Gusto, a payroll and HR platform. Translates compliance requirements into technical specs, owns oversight dashboards and metrics, and coordinates delivery of monitoring and AI-enabled controls across engineering and product teams.
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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.
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.
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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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