Identity Consultant – KYC/AML Career at Jumio in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Career Trajectory: This role sits at the intersection of fraud/identity consulting, enterprise SaaS, and compliance — a high-demand niche. Identity verification and eKYC are rapidly growing sectors driven by global AML regulation tightening, making skills gained here highly transferable to fintechs, banks, and regtech firms.
Compensation Context: The stated minimum of €80,000 EUR gross for a full-time 38.5hr/week role in Austria is competitive for a mid-senior consultant level, roughly aligned with Austrian market rates for senior tech consulting (typically €70k–€100k). However, UK equivalents for this seniority in identity/fraud consulting often range £70k–£95k — so UK-based candidates should probe the overpayment clause carefully.
Skills You'll Build:
- Deep expertise in KYC/AML workflows and fraud risk strategy — highly valued by financial regulators and enterprise clients
- Enterprise customer lifecycle management (pre-sales through expansion)
- Cross-functional coordination across Product, Engineering, and Legal/Compliance
- API/SaaS implementation consulting — a transferable technical skill set
Green Flags: Jumio is a well-established identity verification leader with global enterprise clients — solid brand name for a CV. The role has genuine strategic scope, not just execution work.
Watch-outs: The salary is stated as a minimum with unspecified upside, and benefits beyond salary are notably absent from the posting. The role spans pre-sales, onboarding, AND expansion simultaneously — a broad remit that could mean high workload without clear specialization paths.
Headquarters: Austria (remote); UK (remote)
Role Purpose:
The Identity Consultant serves as a customer-facing Fraud and Identity subject matter expert across the entire customer lifecycle, operating as a forward-deployed consultant across pre-sales, onboarding, and ongoing expansion. In this role, you will partner directly with enterprise customers to design optimal product implementation strategies, evaluate risk profiles, and align Jumio's technical solutions with customers' unique business objectives.
The Identity Consultant owns the critical onboarding mission for new deployments. Acting as a strategic advisor, you are directly responsible for driving efficient customer onboarding and rollout, and overcoming regulatory, legal, or operational hurdles to accelerate time-to-live and maximize time-to-value while ensuring solution adoption and long-term trust.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with new and existing Jumio customers to evaluate their risk profile and design tailored fraud strategies
- Provide expert recommendations on risk mitigation, user friction, and verification workflow optimization
- Lead the design of standardized identity workflows within the Jumio product, optimized for different verticals and use cases that can be quickly adopted by new customers
- Orchestrate launch readiness by proactively identifying and resolving technical, regulatory, or policy-related bottlenecks to drive time-to-live and time-to-value
- Advise customer risk and fraud teams on emerging fraud vectors and industry best practices
- Validate completion of implementation milestones and success criteria, confirming that the customer's integration aligns with Jumio best practices
- Coordinate go-live planning, readiness reviews, and support go-live day execution
Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
- Relevant professional experience spanning fraud, identity, AML/KYC, digital risk, or a related field, including meaningful customer-facing experience in consulting, technical account management, solutions, professional services, product, or implementation
- Strong consultative, analytical, and strategic thinking abilities with a focus on risk strategy and workflow design
- Project management skills and the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams from Product, Engineering, Legal/Compliance to deliver outcomes for Jumio customers
- Ability to distill complex, technical fraud concepts into clear, value-driven narratives for executive stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with identity verification, fraud, compliance, fintech, or enterprise software solutions
- Technical understanding of APIs, integrations, SaaS platforms, or implementation methodologies
- Project management certification or equivalent experience
- Experience working with global enterprise customers
Compensation:
We offer an annual full-time salary (38.5 hr week) of min 80,000 EUR gross, with a possible overpayment depending on qualifications and experience.
Jumio Values:
IDEAL: Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, Leading Innovation
Equal Opportunities:
Jumio is a collaboration of people with different ideas, strengths, interests and cultures. We welcome applications and colleagues from all backgrounds and of all statuses.
About Jumio:
Jumio is a B2B technology company dedicated to eradicating online identity fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes to help make the internet safer. We leverage AI, biometrics, machine learning, liveness detection and automation to create solutions that are trusted by leading brands worldwide and respected by industry thought leaders.
Jumio is the leading provider of online identity verification, eKYC and AML solutions. With a global footprint, we're expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services, Travel, Sharing Economy, Fintech, Gaming, and others.
Applicant Data Privacy
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To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/jumio-identity-consultant
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