Senior AML Investigator

About the role

As a Senior AML Investigator at Strike, you will lead high-level investigations into financial crimes such as structuring, sanctions evasion, and fraud. This includes conducting detailed on-chain analysis to trace complex cryptocurrency flows and translating these technical findings into clear, understandable conclusions. Your work will directly support the company's compliance efforts and help maintain its integrity in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

This position requires you to be Strike's internal expert on bitcoin investigations, serving as a key escalation point for difficult tracing issues. You will review the work of junior team members and ensure that investigative outputs meet high standards, especially when interacting with law enforcement, auditors, and examiners. A critical part of your role will be drafting defensible Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narratives and preparing comprehensive filing packages for review.

You will also contribute to the development of new typologies by identifying emerging patterns in financial crime, which will inform the design of monitoring rules and help reduce false positives. The role involves shaping how Strike uses AI tools in investigations, from evaluating new technologies to setting standards for human review of AI-assisted outputs. Success in this role means effectively detecting and escalating suspicious activities, making sound recommendations on customer risk, and continuously enhancing the company's AML and fraud policies.

The salary for this position ranges from $78,000 to $100,000 USD annually, with the listed conditions also mentioning a range of €73K - €84K.

Skills that matter here

• AML: This role requires leading investigations into financial crimes and maintaining compliance with anti-money laundering regulations.
• blockchain: The investigator will conduct on-chain tracing and attribution analysis of high-risk cryptocurrency flows.
• bitcoin: The position requires serving as the company's internal authority on bitcoin investigations and understanding its unique characteristics.
• analytical skills: Exceptional analytical abilities are needed to defend conclusions based on ambiguous facts and make sound judgments.
• documentation: The role involves drafting clear and defensible suspicious activity narratives and preparing thorough case files.
• AI tooling: The investigator will help shape the application of AI in investigative work, evaluating tools and setting human review standards.

Who this role suits

• A candidate with at least four years of experience in financial crime investigations, including a minimum of two years focused on digital assets.
• Someone who possesses deep knowledge of multi-hop bitcoin tracing and can explain the heuristics used in such analyses.
• An individual with strong written communication skills, capable of producing clear and defensible SAR narratives and case files.
• A person who can work both independently and collaboratively in a remote, fast-paced environment, taking ownership of their responsibilities.

From the employer

• Complex Investigations: Lead investigations into the highest-risk and multi-jurisdictional activity, including structuring, layering, sanctions evasion, and fraud.
• Blockchain Tracing: Conduct on-chain tracing and attribution analysis on high-risk flows, translating technical findings into plain-language conclusions.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as Strike's internal authority on bitcoin investigations. Act as escalation point on complex tracing, review the investigative work and written output of junior team members, and hold credibility with law enforcement, auditors, and examiners.
• SAR Narratives: Draft clear, defensible suspicious activity narratives and prepare filing packages for BSA Officer review.
• Typology Development: Identify emerging patterns and feed them into monitoring rule design, threshold tuning, and false positive reduction.
• AI-Enabled Investigations: Help shape how Strike applies AI tooling to investigative work, from evaluating tools to setting the human review standards that keep AI-assisted output defensible.
• Risk Escalations: Detect and escalate anomalies or suspicious behaviors in line with our AML and fraud policies, and make well-reasoned recommendations on customer risk decisions.

• Experience: At least 4 years in AML, financial crime, or fraud investigations, including a minimum of 2 years dedicated to blockchain or digital asset investigations.
• Bitcoin Tracing Depth: Demonstrated multi-hop tracing through peel chains, consolidations, change behavior, and obfuscation such as nested services. You should be able to name the heuristics you rely on and where they break down.
• Analytical Prowess: Exceptional analytical abilities, with the judgment to defend a conclusion on ambiguous facts and to know when to escalate rather than resolve.
• Documentation & Narrative: Outstanding written communication, with a track record of SAR narratives and case files that withstand scrutiny.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of BSA/AML obligations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and SAR filing standards.
• Tech Savvy: Hands-on proficiency with blockchain analytics tooling (Chainalysis, TRM Labs), open source research, and KYC/case management tools.
• AI Fluency: Practical experience applying AI tooling professionally, with the judgment to know where it creates leverage and where its output cannot be relied on without verification.
• Independence & Teamwork: Capability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a remote, fast-paced setting, taking ownership of responsibilities. The ability to work with a high degree of urgency is critical.
• Language Skills: English fluency is a must, with additional languages being a valuable asset.

• Salary range: €73K - €84K
• Equity in a high-growth startup
• Cell phone and internet reimbursement
• Flexible PTO, sick leave & parental leave
• No trading fees when you buy and sell bitcoin on Strike
• Location dependent competitive salary
• Other benefits are location dependent