Transaction Monitoring & Sanctions Screening Program Manager

Transaction Monitoring & Sanctions Screening Program Manager

Ramp is seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Transaction Monitoring & Sanctions Screening Program Manager to join our Compliance team. This pivotal role will help uplevel, govern, and improve two critical components of our financial crime program in addition to other tooling initiatives. In this role, you will own the operational health, documentation, and governance of our transaction monitoring (TM) and sanctions screening systemsensuring they are risk-based, scalable, auditable, and aligned with both regulatory and partner expectations, and help implement tools and observability dashboards for the Compliance organization.

This role blends strategic oversight with hands-on program management. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Legal and Compliance to define requirements, oversee testing and tuning, and support investigations and reporting pipelines. You'll also build observability metrics, help prepare for audits, and support related initiatives like dynamic risk ratings and due diligence flows.

This is an ideal opportunity for a technically fluent compliance professional with a strong understanding of AML tooling, regulatory expectations, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Oversee the health and performance of Ramp's transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems, including rules, thresholds, workflows, and exception handling.
• Serve as a technical SME, partnering with Engineering and Data Science to evaluate system behavior and drive improvements.
• Maintain policies and documentation to meet regulatory expectations and follow existing guidance and best practices.
• Manage system governance processes, including rule tuning, model testing, validation coordination, and logic changes.
• Draft and maintain clear business requirements and testing plans for any logic or tooling updates.
• Use SQL and dashboarding tools to perform data analysis, track false positives, and improve rule precision.
• Support partner audit and regulatory exam preparation, including system documentation, policy walkthroughs, tuning history, and metric reporting.
• Establish operational KPIs and ensure reporting to internal stakeholders (e.g. Compliance leadership, Risk Committees).

What You Need

Nice to Haves

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

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