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About the role
Motive empowers physical operations with tools for safety, productivity, and profitability. The platform enables safety, operations, and finance teams to manage drivers, vehicles, equipment, and spend in a single system, serving nearly 100,000 customers ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses.
Motive’s Financial Products team operates a fast-growing commercial lending and spend management program (Motive Card) built on partnerships with issuing banks and card networks. The program currently spans the US and Canada with further international expansion planned.
The Lead Compliance Manager will build and own the compliance function end-to-end, from policy development through hands-on execution. Reporting to the Head of Risk, Financial Products, this role will serve as the senior-most dedicated owner of AML/BSA, sanctions, KYC/KYB, and lending-compliance programs.
What you'll do
- Own and maintain Motive’s AML/BSA, Sanctions, and KYC/KYB policies and procedures across all markets.
- Design, implement, and monitor controls for sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity escalation.
- Serve as the primary compliance point of contact and relationship owner for issuing bank and card network partners.
- Partner with Risk, Legal, Underwriting, Product, and Engineering to embed lending-compliance requirements into new products before launch.
- Lead internal and third-party compliance audits and exams, driving findings to closure.
- Monitor regulatory developments across commercial lending, AML/sanctions, and payments in existing and planned markets.
- Build and run the governance structure for the compliance program, including reporting and risk committees.
- Build out the compliance function as it scales, including hiring and managing future team members.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience in compliance, audit, or risk management within lending, payments, or financial services.
- Direct ownership of AML/BSA, KYC/KYB, sanctions, and PEP programs.
- Hands-on experience managing compliance relationships with issuing banks, card networks, or regulated financial partners.
- Multi-jurisdiction compliance program experience, including Canada and UK/EU.
- Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as BSA, FinCEN, FINTRAC/PCMLTFA, and OFAC sanctions.
- Proven ability to write policy and operationalize it into audit-ready controls.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Legal, Risk, Product, and Engineering to launch products.
Nice to have
- Additional international experience in Mexico or other Latin American markets.
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Motive benefits
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“We are a remote-first organization made up of more than 3,000 employees located around the world. While some of our employees are more effective working remotely ... members also have the option to work on-site at any of our eight global office locations if they prefer.”
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