Description
About Gusto
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff , payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR , so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
Our teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) , because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location.
AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves.
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.
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.
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.
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.