Sanctions Operations Associate at Rippling

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the Role:

Rippling is seeking a Sanctions Operations Associate to join our growing Financial Crime Compliance Team. A core part of this role is the review and disposition of sanctions screening alerts. You will evaluate matches generated by Rippling’s automated screening program, applying sound analytical judgment to distinguish true matches from false positives, escalate confirmed hits, and maintain clear documentation throughout the alert lifecycle. This includes assessing name, geography, and ownership-based hits across OFAC and international sanctions lists, and ensuring disposition rationales meet audit and regulatory standards.

You will also support sanctions due diligence reviews of existing customers, prospects, and third-party partners, helping ensure alignment with Rippling’s risk appetite and applicable sanctions regulations.

Due diligence reviews involve research using open-source, proprietary, and third-party tools, reviewing sanctions-related adverse media, and drafting targeted outreach and escalation questions. You will contribute to risk analyses across a broad spectrum of sanctions exposure and work closely with teams across the organisation, including the Compliance FCC Team, KYC, Sales, Implementation, Legal, and Product.

You will help maintain policies, procedures, and operational frameworks that support how the team identifies, assesses, and escalates sanctions risk, and will contribute to sanctions risk analyses and governance documentation.

You will stay current on US and international sanctions programs and support the delivery of internal training on new or emerging risks. Strong cross-functional partnership is important. This role works closely with Go-to-Market teams and requires the ability to communicate sanctions risk clearly to non-specialist audiences.

What You Will Do:

• Review and disposition sanctions screening alerts generated through Rippling’s screening program; evaluating potential matches against OFAC and international sanctions lists, assessing name, geography, and ownership-based hits, applying risk-based judgment to distinguish true positives from false positives, and escalating confirmed or high-risk matches with clear, well-documented rationales
• Support end-to-end sanctions due diligence reviews of customers, prospects, and third-party partners, from initial screening through risk determination and resolution
• Conduct research across open-source, proprietary, and third-party tools, including adverse media analysis and sanctions nexus assessments for complex entities and ownership structures
• Participate in customer-facing due diligence calls and help develop targeted outreach and escalation questions that surface meaningful risk
• Contribute to the policies, procedures, and operational frameworks that support Rippling’s sanctions due diligence program
• Produce clear, well-reasoned sanctions risk analyses and governance documentation
• Work cross-functionally with the EDD Team, Sales, Implementation, Legal, and Product to keep sanctions risk visible and actionable across the business
• Stay current on OFAC and international sanctions developments and support translation of regulatory change into practical guidance for the team
• Support internal sanctions training and help answer sanctions questions from business units

What You Will Need:

• 1-2 years of sanctions or financial crime compliance experience, including exposure to OFAC/sanctions due diligence or high-risk customer reviews
• Some experience conducting sanctions investigations and risk analyses, in a first-line or second-line role
• Familiarity with multi-jurisdictional sanctions regimes, particularly US (OFAC), EU, and UK programs
• Working knowledge of sanctions typologies, regulatory obligations, and risk assessments for entities and ownership structures
• Strong research, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple reviews in a fast-paced environment
• BA/BS degree required; professional certifications such as CGSS, CFCS, or CAMS are a plus

About the Team:

Rippling's Financial Crime Team is a core function within the Compliance department, responsible for managing financial crime risk across Rippling's global operations. The team brings together deep expertise across sanctions, AML, KYC, and EDD to build and maintain scalable compliance frameworks that protect the company and support sustainable growth.

Sanctions compliance is a critical pillar of that mission. As Rippling expands into new markets and onboards an increasingly complex customer base, the ability to identify and manage OFAC and international sanctions exposure is more important than ever. The Sanctions Due Diligence function sits at the centre of that effort, owning the reviews, frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships that keep Rippling's sanctions program effective.

At Rippling, we view compliance as a strategic enabler rather than a constraint. We build efficient, technology-driven processes that safeguard the business without slowing it down. Join us to help shape a modern sanctions compliance function at a rapidly growing, global company.