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title: 'Compliance Lead at Sphinx'
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# Compliance Lead at Sphinx

- **Company:** Sphinx
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphinx/be887462-bb10-46d0-85c3-0390e9f00d40

## Job description

tl;dr: We’re automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work on existing systems like human analysts. We’re looking for someone who understands both compliance and product management, someone who can turn regulatory workflows into scalable systems that help define how our AI agents reason, decide, and learn.

## BACKGROUND

If you’ve worked in compliance, you’ve seen it firsthand: the endless reviews, duplicate alerts, and outdated systems that make even simple controls take hours. The rules make sense; the systems don’t.

Sphinx is fixing that. We build AI analysts that work inside browsers and internal systems just like humans — automating AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring end-to-end.

Instead of replacing judgment, our agents replicate it – learning from analyst feedback, explaining their reasoning, and improving over time. The result: faster onboarding, fewer false positives, and compliance teams that focus on decisions, not data entry.

Banks and fintechs across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm use Sphinx agents to handle 90% of their manual work and cut costs by 4x.

## WHY JOIN SPHINX

1. Redefine compliance: Banks spend $50B a year hiring thousands of analysts to manage compliance operations. You’ll design how financial crime prevention works in the age of AI – replacing checklists and manual reviews with robust reasoning systems that explain their logic.
2. Work directly with clients: You’ll collaborate with banks, fintechs, and MSBs to deploy automation that meets real-world standards.
3. Build at the frontier: You’ll work with engineers to design interpretable, auditable, and explainable AI systems that regulators can trust.
4. We have never lost a deal to a competitor: Yes you heard that right, we’ve won every RFP we’ve been in.
5. Small team, big surface area: Our co-founders previously sold an AI company & have built ML systems that scaled to millions of users and closed deals with major banks. The rest of our team in SF includes PhDs, industry experts, and competitive coders.

## WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Define how our agents think. That means turning complex regulations into structured, machine-readable logic – and ensuring it works across jurisdictions, languages, and edge cases.

Partner with customers to understand how their compliance processes are actually done, then design products that remove the bottlenecks: mapping workflows, refining alerts, improving output quality & accuracy, and building transparency into every decision.

You’ll collaborate with engineering to make sure every product decision is explainable and compliant by design – ensuring regulatory adherence, technical precision, and customer success.

## WHAT WE LOOK FOR

- You bring real compliance experience: You’ve spent 3–5 years in AML, risk, or compliance roles at a bank, fintech, or regtech – and you know how investigations, onboarding, and escalations actually work.
- You bridge compliance and product: You can translate regulatory logic into product requirements engineers can act on – turning policies, SOPs, and edge cases into automated workflows.
- You think in systems: You know how to deconstruct manual review processes, identify leverage points, and design scalable automation.
- You care about false-positives: you know how to use metrics to understand issues, and love diving deeper to find a pattern.
- You’re impact-obsessed: You want to see your work move the company forward – every day.

## ABOUT THE INTERVIEW

- Intro call
- Case Study
- Fit call
- Offer 🎉

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- 🍽 Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office
- 🏥 Comprehensive healthcare
- 🏝️ Unlimited PTO
- 🗺️ Annual offsite (last one in Mexico!)
- ✈️ Paid relocation & one-month temporary housing
- 💻 Latest tech and as many monitors as you can fit on a desk

## About Sphinx

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sphinx provides AI compliance agents that automate KYC, AML, and KYB workflows for banks and fintechs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Alexandre Berkovic (CEO) and Chrisjan Wust (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: RegTech / Compliance Automation / Financial Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – compliance teams at banks, fintechs, and other financial institutions
- **Mission or purpose**: Replace manual compliance work with AI agents that make transparent, auditable decisions at software speed.

## Products & Services
- **AI Compliance Agents**: End-to-end automation of onboarding, transaction monitoring, and reporting. Agents log into existing systems, click, type, and resolve cases without APIs or engineering support. Covers ID verification, PEP/sanctions screening, adverse media checks, UBO identification, document intelligence, web/media analysis, dispute resolution, and regulatory reporting (SAR/UAR).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $500,000 total seed funding (raised December 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Fall 2024 batch), Rebel Fund. Primary YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne.
- **Growth Signals**: Team of 14 (as of mid-2025); claims 98.7% false positive detection, 7.7x faster case reviews, 10x faster disposition, and customers clearing six-month alert backlogs in two days. Actively hiring across multiple roles (Founding Sales, Product Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, etc.).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Transparent AI**: Full step-by-step reasoning and evidence trails, not a black box – SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.
- **Zero‑integration deployment**: Agents work inside existing systems by clicking and typing like a human analyst, so no API or engineering time is needed.
- **End‑to‑end coverage**: From onboarding to continuous monitoring to regulatory reporting, all within one platform.
- **Real‑time risk network**: Connects structured data with web, news, and on‑chain data to surface hidden links between counterparties.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand end‑to‑end agentic workflow for real‑time KYC decisions.
- Replace fragmented legacy compliance tools with a single, AI‑driven platform.
- Scale the agent’s reasoning capabilities across more data sources and jurisdictions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “High ownership, low ego, very little patience for bureaucracy.” A small, fast‑moving crew where everyone talks to users and ships code. No passive roles – you own problems from start to finish.
- **Engineering environment**: Building AI agents that handle live financial data and messy edge cases. Emphasis on shipping quickly and having real impact.
- **Location**: San Francisco‑based; remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely in‑person or hybrid given YC context.
- **Open roles** (as of mid‑2025): Founding Sales, Product Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Member of Technical Staff, Chief of Staff, GTM, Head of Content, Financial Crime Analyst, Compliance Solutions Architect.

## Sources
1. [sphinxlabs.ai](https://sphinxlabs.ai/)
2. [ycombinator.com/companies/sphinx](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sphinx)
3. [crunchbase.com/organization/sphinx-labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sphinx-labs)
4. [linkedin.com/company/sphinx-hq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sphinx-hq)
5. [sphinxhq.com/careers](https://sphinxhq.com/careers)

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