VP, Payments Risk & Compliance

Job description

VP, Payments Risk & Compliance – US Full-time We are seeking an entrepreneurial, execution-focused VP of Payments Risk & Compliance to lead the design, implementation, and scaling of Modulr’s US risk and compliance framework. This is a foundational leadership role in our US expansion, reporting into the US Managing Director and working closely with UK Risk, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams. Serves as the senior US AML and payments risk lead, responsible for overseeing the design and effectiveness of Modulr’s US BSA/AML program in alignment with sponsor bank requirements. and maintains independent escalation authority to the US Board and sponsor bank compliance leadership You will be responsible for building a sponsor-bank-aligned risk and compliance structure to support our US launch and future scale. Who We Are: Now expanding into the US, Modulr has launched the same programmable, API-first infrastructure across ACH, RTP, FedNow, and push-to-card networks in partnership with leading sponsor banks and FIS. Our focus is high-frequency, business-critical payment flows across payroll, lending, earned wage access, and platform ecosystems. By combining regulatory oversight, op...