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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, own, and continuously enhance Nubank's global sanctions policy framework
- Direct the end-to-end sanctions screening program for customer onboarding, ongoing customer screening, transactions, and payments
- Oversee watchlist and reference data management, including list ingestion, update cadence, and screening logic tuning
- Lead investigation and escalation of potential and true sanctions hits
- Make disposition decisions and handle blocked and rejected transactions, regulatory filings, and reporting
- Serve as Nubank's primary interface with OFAC, Treasury, and other regulators
- Manage examinations, inquiries, and voluntary self-disclosures where applicable
- Advise business, product, and partnerships teams on sanctions risk in new products, markets, customer segments, and third-party relationships
- Monitor geopolitical and regulatory developments and translate them into program updates
- Coordinate independent testing, internal audit, and regulatory examinations
- Drive remediation of identified gaps
- Own sanctions training and awareness programs for employees, contractors, and relevant third parties
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of progressive experience in sanctions compliance or broader financial crimes compliance within financial services
- Deep, current knowledge of OFAC regulations and sanctions programs
- Working familiarity with EU, UN, and UK OFSI regimes
- Experience building, scaling, or materially uplifting a sanctions program in a high-growth, regulated, or fintech environment
- Demonstrated people leadership, including managing distributed or multi-country teams
- Strong track record of stakeholder management with regulators, executives, and the Board
- Bachelor's degree required
- Willingness to be based in or relocate to Virginia
- Preferred: Experience at a global or multi-jurisdictional bank, payments company, or fintech operating across multiple regulatory regimes
- Preferred: CAMS or equivalent financial crimes compliance certification
- Preferred: Direct experience managing OFAC examinations, voluntary self-disclosures, or sanctions-related enforcement matters
- Preferred: Familiarity with sanctions screening technology vendors and model tuning/validation practices
Benefits
Comp & perks- Periodic travel to Brazil and other Latin American offices
- AI-enabled recruitment tools support evaluation; final hiring decisions are made by human reviewers