SeniorFull TimeEN
We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.
lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months.
We’ve seen firsthand how expensive, slow, and complex brokerage infrastructure can be. We remove that friction for partners and their customers, making investing easier to offer, and easier to use.
Your Mission
As our Senior AFC Compliance Manager (Deputy MLRO), you’ll help ensure lemon.markets can scale safely and confidently in an increasingly bank-grade, B2B-focused environment. We already have a full AFC framework in place. Your mission is to take what exists, challenge it, refine it, and bring it to the next level.
In particular, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we operate as part of a group and in conversations with large financial institutions. You will communicate at eye level with strategic internal and external stakeholders, translating regulatory expectations into practical processes, and preparing high-impact AFC decisions. Over time, this role potentially also offers the opportunity to take on leadership responsibility.
In this role you will:
Support the MLRO function as Deputy MLRO: you prepare and structure decisions so they can be approved efficiently, and you step in as a trusted representative where needed.
Own AFC Compliance processes end2end, based on your previous experience; for example, control design & implementation.
Review and approve high-risk customers and business-critical decisions: you support/drive approvals of high-risk customers and complex setups and you handle or steer money laundering suspicion cases.
Work closely with 1LoD / AFC Operations as their senior contact point: you run calibration and alignment meetings, resolve escalations, and build a collaborative rhythm where guidance is clear, implementable, and actually adopted.
Prepare strategic AFC decisions with high business impact: you turn complex regulatory requirements into crisp options, recommendations, and decisions, so leadership can approve with confidence.
Collaborate with group stakeholders: you align on group standards and approaches where needed, implement group processes, and communicate in a way that works for a large-bank environment.
Support Partner Onboarding (KYP) from an AFC perspective: you help evaluate new partners against AFC requirements, understand their KYC/monitoring maturity, and assess how their risk profile affects lemon.markets.
You’ll be successful in this role if:
Growing investing opportunities excite you. Our mission resonates with you, because you have worked in the financial sector before, whether it’s an Investment Firm, a Bank or a Fintech (or ideally a mix of all).
You have extensive experience in AFC with a strong 2LoD foundation, meaning solid regulatory and hands-on experience across KYC, AML, CTF, fraud prevention plus know-how and working knowledge of the German Money Laundering Act.
You bring strong stakeholder management and communication skills: you can set clear requirements while bringing people along, collaborative, firm, and pragmatic.
You have senior-level judgment and can confidently interact with representatives of large German banks.
You can work in German and English at C-level proficiency and express yourself clearly, precisely, and professionally.
What would make you an even better fit (nice to have, not mandatory):
You have B2B exposure (onboarding/monitoring/partner risk), ideally in models where you don’t fully see end customers and must rely on partner controls.
You have experience as Deputy MLRO (or in a comparable role with MLRO-level responsibilities).
You have experience in AFC Operations (1LoD).
How we take care of you:
🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.
🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.
🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany (ideally from Berlin) within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.
📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, plus a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations so you always know where you stand, and what to do to level up.
🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture.
💛 Perks & benefits: We choose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.
🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total.
About the process
Hiring can be an exhausting process, especially when you're the one trying to get hired. Therefore, we try to make this a fast and transparent process. Additionally, you will always have one contact person guiding you through the process and helping you to schedule meetings, and setting you up on a path of success. Your process will look like this:
Get to know - Karo - Talent Partner | 40 minutes
Deep Dive - Niko - Head of Compliance | 60 minutes
Meet the Leadership/Bar Raiser Interview - Dirk - MD Back Office I 60 minutes
Meet us at our lemon.markets HQ
Case Study - A selection of lemoneers | 60 minutes
Principles Session - A selection of lemoneers | 60 minutes
As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.
If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply.
You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via talent@lemon.markets.com
