Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)

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The Role

You'll own Altitude's compliance program from first principles. This isn't a checkbox role, it's designing the policies that govern how we onboard businesses, monitor transactions, and interface with regulators across jurisdictions. You'll translate legislation (US, EU, and eventually UAE/Singapore) into operational reality.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain Altitude's AML/CFT compliance framework from

• Create KYB policies that balance fraud prevention with legitimate business onboarding speed

• Establish transaction monitoring rules and escalation protocols

• Own regulatory relationships and reporting obligations (SARs, required filings)

• Design policies that work across our multi-PSP architecture

• Prepare the company for MTL licensing and evolving regulatory frameworks

• Work with legal to interpret new stablecoin and crypto-asset regulations as they emerge

What We're Looking For

• Deep understanding of AML/CFT legislation - US BSA/FinCEN, EU AMLDs, MiCA implications

• Experience building compliance programs, not just operating within them

• Ability to think systematically about risk vs. applying playbooks

• Comfort with ambiguity, stablecoin regulation is evolving; you'll need to make judgment calls

• Prior experience in fintech, payments, or crypto preferred

• Strong written communication, policies need to be clear, defensible, and implementable

Not a Fit If

• You need every scenario pre-defined before you can act

• Your instinct is to slow everything down rather than find compliant paths forward

• You've only operated compliance programs, never built one