KYC/KYB Analyst

Decide who we onboard: review the cases our agents prepare, verify businesses and the people behind them, and escalate what does not fit.

  • Compliance
  • Remote
  • Full-time
  • Salary + equity
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The role

You make sure every business and person we onboard is who they say they are and fits our risk appetite. You review clients from many countries and balance a smooth onboarding with rigorous standards, working with the compliance teams of our regulated partners.

Our onboarding is designed agent-first: agents collect documents, run screening and draft the case, and you make the decision. What you correct is how the agents improve.

What you'll own

01Business onboarding (KYB)

The businesses our partners bring, from corporate documents to the people behind them.

  • Verify corporate documents, registry extracts and licences
  • Map ownership structures and identify ultimate beneficial owners and controllers
  • Approve, reject or escalate with a clear written rationale
  • Request missing information from clients and partners without slowing them down

Success looks likeTime from a complete application to a decision, with no rework after review.

02Individual checks (KYC)

Directors, beneficial owners and individual clients.

  • Review identity documents, proof of address and liveness results
  • Run sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening, and resolve potential matches
  • Assign risk ratings and run enhanced due diligence, including source of funds and source of wealth
  • Keep every decision documented and auditable

Success looks likeEvery decision traceable to evidence an auditor can follow.

03AI-assisted review

Agents prepare the case. You make the call and teach them.

  • Review cases prepared by onboarding and screening agents
  • Flag where an agent was wrong and why, so it improves
  • Help write the checklists and evals agents are measured against
  • Suggest which steps can safely be automated next

Success looks likeShare of cases where the agent's draft needed no correction.

04Ongoing monitoring

Clients after onboarding.

  • Run periodic reviews and KYC refreshes
  • Support the investigation of transaction monitoring alerts
  • Answer RFIs and due diligence questionnaires from banks and partners
  • Keep procedures current as we add markets

Success looks likeReviews and RFIs closed on time.

What you'll bring

Tap the ones that are true. Most of them is enough to apply.

Nice to have

  • Digital asset or stablecoin compliance
  • Enhanced due diligence, source of funds and source of wealth
  • FATF standards and the EU AML framework
  • A second language used in our corridors, such as Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese or Spanish

Your first 90 days

  1. Days 1–30Learn the rules
    • Learn our risk appetite and procedures
    • Shadow live onboarding cases
    • Decide your first cases with a second reviewer
  2. Days 31–60Own the queue
    • Own KYB decisions within your limits
    • Run the feedback loop with the onboarding agents
    • Ship your first checklist improvement
  3. Days 61–90Make it scale
    • Propose the next steps to automate safely
    • Help design periodic reviews
    • Measure decision time and rework

What we offer

  • Salary and founding-team equity. Discussed openly in the first conversation, confirmed in writing at offer.
  • Remote-first. Work from where you do your best work.
  • Ownership. A whole surface, with the metric that proves it.
  • AI-native tools from day one. Agents in the workflow, not on a slide.
  • Fast decisions. No layers between a good idea and shipping it.

How we hire

  1. ApplyYour profile, 2–3 cases and what you learned from them.
  2. Intro call30 minutes on culture and industry fit.
  3. Live problemA real problem, solved together in real time, through to how you would make it real.
  4. Final interviewMeet the team you would work with. You interview us too.
  5. OfferSalary, equity and start date in writing, walked through line by line.

We reply to every application within 2 days, including a no.

About Modality

Modality is a stablecoin settlement layer for cross-border payments: 36 account currencies, 630 direct pairs and 24/7 settlement, with no local entity and no pre-funding for our clients. Modality is a technology provider, not a bank. Licensed partners hold client funds and run payment, custody and exchange under their own licences.

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