Fraud & AML Manager

We’re Tribute — the leading monetization platform on Telegram. Our users earn through donations from their followers, subscriptions to private channels, paid digital content and physical products. 60k+ creators are already actively using Tribute, incl. many well-known names and bloggers with large audiences. And that number keeps growing every day!

We’re looking for a senior fraud and AML expert to own this area across the platform. This is a hands-on, department-of-one role. Your main goal is to stop fraud and money laundering before they cause losses: design the preventive controls, find risky activity early in the data and keep the defenses ahead of new schemes. You’ll have direct access to data, decision-makers and engineering, and real influence on how the platform handles risk.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the platform’s preventive fraud and AML controls: risk rules, limits, scoring and monitoring across the user and payment lifecycle.
• Proactively hunt for fraud and laundering patterns in transaction and user data, and catch them before they turn into losses.
• Set up early-warning signals and alerts, and make sure they lead to timely decisions.
• Test and calibrate controls on historical data, and keep the balance between losses, false positives and user experience.
• Work with Engineering and Product to embed risk controls into the product and automate them.
• Track new fraud and laundering typologies and adapt the defenses before they hit the platform.
• Investigate the cases you find, assess the exposure and make risk decisions, working with payment providers and legal counsel when needed.
• Own the fraud and AML strategy, policies and key risk metrics, and report regularly to the CEO.
• Act as the internal expert on fraud and AML for Support, Moderation, Finance and Product.

Requirements:

• 6+ years in fraud, AML or financial crime at a PSP, PayFac, marketplace or similar platform.
• A track record of designing and launching preventive fraud or AML controls, with measurable impact on losses.
• Hands-on experience building detection rules, scoring or transaction monitoring, and tuning them on real data.
• Experience proactively uncovering money laundering or organized fraud schemes, with examples you can walk us through.
• Strong knowledge of payment fraud, chargebacks and merchant or seller risk.
• Advanced SQL and comfort working with raw data on your own.
• Experience tracing crypto flows and working with on-chain data.
• Sound judgment: you can make decisions with direct financial impact and explain them clearly to leadership.
• Self-driven and comfortable working as a team of one in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Professional English.

Nice to have:

• ACAMS, ICA or a similar certification.
• Experience automating fraud operations with scripts, AI tools or agents.
• Background in high-risk, creator economy or subscription businesses.

Why it is a fantastic opportunity:

• Our business is growing at an exponential scale.
• Non-bureaucratic management that focuses on results.
• Regular performance reviews to assess your progress.
• Remote setup with access to our hubs in Dubai, Yerevan, London and Belgrade.
• Compensation for medical expenses.
• Provision of necessary equipment.
• Employees get access to the most advanced AI models via mira.tg.
• 20 working days of paid vacation annually.
• 11 days off per year.
• 14 days of paid sick leave to support your health and recovery when needed.