Private markets are the new public markets. The most important companies of this era are private, and almost no one can own them. What's missing is the financial system public markets spent a century building: exchanges, custodians, brokers, and ways for ordinary people to buy in. Private markets, now $28T, never had the equivalent. AngelList is building it.
The last decade of structural innovation in venture happened here: syndicates, SPVs at scale, Rolling Funds, scout programs. Today we have $200B+ in assets and 30,000+ startups funded on our platform. The rest of private markets is next.
What you'd do
- Run KYC/KYB/CDD reviews end to end. Verify individual and entity investors, including identity, beneficial ownership, and sanctions/PEP/adverse media screening, accurately and within SLA, through volume spikes.
- Make the hard calls. Disposition screening hits and layered ownership structures, escalate cases needing enhanced due diligence, and document every decision well enough that an auditor could reconstruct it.
- Be the expert. Serve as a consistent, reliable KYC resource for internal teams and external stakeholders, with answers people can build on.
- Fix the system. Turn queue pain points into shipped product improvements with engineering and adapt to compliance policy changes.
- Design the system that replaces the queue. Build agents and automations against real KYC volume, watch where they fail, and iterate. You'll be expected to contribute to architecting this, not adopting it.
- have 3+ years in KYC/AML operations, customer due diligence, or financial compliance at a fintech, bank, or fund administrator, with working fluency in CIP, CDD/EDD, beneficial ownership, and sanctions/PEP screening
- are precise by default; mistakes in this work touch sensitive data and real money, and you catch your own before anyone else has to
- can work a high-volume queue without your accuracy eroding, and write decisions an auditor could follow
- operate independently with broad scope, and don't need a fully defined lane to be effective
- are energized rather than unsettled when the tools change under you