Shield

Description Shield is a global startup, with offices in TLV, NYC, LDN, and LIS. We’re growing and looking for another important piece of the puzzle. Is it you? We are looking for a sharp, detail-oriented student to join our Data Science team for a limited-term engagement. If you have a finance background, speak multiple languages, and enjoy digging into data, this is for you! Let’s get down to business: About the Role Shield FC is a leading innovator in the financial compliance space, serving some of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions. We help these organizations meet regulatory obligations by monitoring vast volumes of employee communications. Our Data Science team builds NLP and LLM-based solutions that detect rare and subtle indicators of suspicious behavior hidden in massive streams of text. High-quality annotated data is the foundation of everything we build, and that’s where you come in. As a Data Labeling Specialist, you’ll use your financial and linguistic expertise to label, review, and analyze real-world communication data, directly shaping the accuracy of our models. What You’ll Do • Annotate and label financial communication data (text, and potentially transcribed audio) according to defined guidelines and taxonomies • Apply your financial knowledge to identify and classify relevant terminology, context, and potentially risky behaviors • Work with data in multiple languages, ensuring consistent and accurate labeling across them • Analyze annotated datasets to identify patterns, edge cases, ambiguities, and quality issues • Provide feedback on annotation guidelines and help refine them • Review and validate annotations for consistency and quality • Summarize your findings and insights for the Data Science team • Collaborate with data scientists and domain experts to improve data quality and model performance Additional Details: • Part-time, fixed-term temporary contract (approximately 100 hours per month) • Duration: 3 months • Location: 3 office days per week in our Ramat Gan office Requirements Requirements • Currently enrolled in a BA/BSc or MA/MSc program in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, or a related field • Fluency in English and at least one additional language: [Spanish, German, French, Portuguese] • Strong understanding of financial concepts and terminology - Financial markets experience (or education). • Exceptional attention to detail and a high level of accuracy • Strong analytical skills and the ability to spot patterns in data • Ability to follow detailed guidelines while using sound judgment on ambiguous cases • Ability to commit to 100 hours a month for 3 months, working 3 days a week from the office • Team player Advantages - • Familiarity with financial compliance, regulation, or market surveillance • Experience in a large investment bank front office environment is a huge advantage • Experience in compliance for top tier investment bank is a big advantage • Basic experience with Python, SQL, or data analysis tools • Previous experience in data annotation, labeling, or research • Interest in AI, NLP, and LLMs

Description Enterprise Sales Development Representative – Financial Services Shield is a global technology company with offices in Tel Aviv, New York, London and Lisbon. We’re growing and looking for another important piece of the puzzle. Is it you? Shield is looking for an ambitious, curious and commercially minded Sales Development Representative (SDR) to join our team. This isn’t a high-volume, transactional SDR role. You’ll focus on some of the world’s leading financial institutions, researching complex organizations, identifying the right buying groups and business triggers, and creating meaningful conversations with senior decision-makers. You’ll work closely with Account Executives and Marketing to build a qualified enterprise pipeline through highly targeted, account-based engagement. Availability: This is a full time position with Availability: Monday–Friday, with working hours aligned to US Eastern Time (ET) to support our US-based client base. Friday is a shortened working day, in accordance with standard Israeli practice. What You’ll Do • Drive new business development across North America, targeting strategic, high-value enterprise financial institutions and significant ACV opportunities. • Research and map complex organizations, identifying key stakeholders, buying groups, business priorities, pain points and relevant engagement triggers. • Build qualified pipeline through highly targeted, account-based prospecting, not high-volume transactional outreach. • Use intent data, account intelligence, market developments and buying signals to identify when, why and how to engage priority accounts. • Build relationships with senior stakeholders across Compliance, Surveillance, Technology, Legal and Operations. • Multi-thread across accounts and execute persistent, relevant outreach through phone, email, LinkedIn, events and other channels. • Develop a strong understanding of Shield, our market and our customers’ challenges to communicate a credible and compelling value proposition. • Secure high-quality discovery meetings and demos with opportunities that have genuine enterprise potential. • Partner closely with Account Executives and Marketing on account strategy, messaging, campaigns, events and follow-up. • Represent Shield professionally at industry events and use them to build and deepen relationships with target accounts. • Maintain excellent CRM discipline and capture account intelligence, activity, contacts and next steps. Requirements • 1–3 years of SDR/BDR experience in enterprise B2B SaaS, ideally selling into financial institutions or other complex, highly regulated organizations; or relevant client-facing experience within financial services, such as capital markets, investment banking, brokerage, asset management, wealth management or compliance. • Native-level English proficiency is a must, with exceptional written and verbal communication skills. • Availability: This is a full time position with Availability: Monday–Friday, with working hours aligned to US Eastern Time (ET) to support our US-based client base. Friday is a shortened working day, in accordance with standard Israeli practice. • Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Economics, Business, Law, Finance or a related field. • Comfortable engaging large, complex enterprise accounts with multiple stakeholders, significant deal values and longer sales cycles. • A consultative and commercially curious mindset—able to understand a prospect’s business rather than simply deliver a sales pitch. • Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to uncover account priorities, buying signals and meaningful reasons to engage. • Highly tech-savvy, with hands-on experience using modern sales and MarTech stacks, including CRM, sales engagement, prospecting, account intelligence and the latest intent-data technologies. • Comfortable using data and technology to prioritize accounts, personalize outreach and improve prospecting effectiveness. • Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders and the ability to turn complex topics into clear, compelling conversations. • Highly organized and disciplined, with the ability to manage multiple strategic accounts, campaigns and follow-ups simultaneously. • Strong ownership, urgency and accountability around goals and commitments. • Competitive and results-driven, with the ambition to win individually while contributing to the success of the wider team. • A genuine desire to learn, develop and build a career in enterprise technology sales. ** Before You Apply - Show Us How You Think ** We’re not just looking for another SDR. We’re looking for smart, strategic and ambitious people who know how to create a reason for someone to listen. So, before you submit your application: Tell us why we should meet you. Along with your CV, include a short introduction explaining what makes you different and why you believe you can make an impact at Shield. More information about Shield: Shield is the industry’s most comprehensive digital communications governance and archiving solution, purpose-built for financial institutions. Named a Visionary by Gartner, Shield’s platform blends AI innovation with deep regulatory expertise to simplify compliance, strengthen security, and unlock efficiency. Trusted by leading global financial institutions, Shield works closely with its partners to help compliance teams uncover hidden risks, prevent financial crimes, and protect both people and markets. . With operations across key financial hubs worldwide, we support customers wherever they operate, navigating complex regulatory environments with confidence. At our core, we’re focused on building trust: protecting market integrity and creating a world where communication is understood and accountable. Our work has been recognized by industry leaders and analysts, including Deloitte Fast 500, Dun & Bradstreet’s Top 20 Companies, Regulation Asia Awards, and RegTech Insight Awards Europe-reflecting our impact, growth, and commitment to excellence. If you’re ready to make a real impact at a fast-growing, mission-driven company working with the world’s leading banks to redefine communication governance and compliance - this is the place for you.

Description Shield is a global startup with offices in TLV, NYC, LDN, and LIS. We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will join our team and make a big impact. About the role You'll join a small, high-ownership backend team building the systems that power Shield's core platform, working mainly on data pipelines with a focus on the quality and structure of the data itself. We believe great engineers come from all backgrounds, and we actively work to build a team where everyone belongs and thrives. What you'll do • Design and implement new flows and services • Maintain, improve, and extend existing backend services and APIs • Work with multiple data stores - relational, NoSQL, search (Elasticsearch, etc.) • Maintain and build event-driven pipelines using message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar) • Collaborate with product and architecture on scalable, resilient system design • Integrate and leverage AI tools in your daily workflow - and ideally, build them Requirements What we're looking for • 4 - 8 years of backend engineering experience • At least 1 year with Java; additional years in any backend language (Go, Python, C#, TypeScript, etc.) • Hands-on experience with data stores (e.g. MySQL/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis) • Familiarity with event-driven architecture and at least one message broker • Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • You use AI tools daily - and if you've built AI agents, even better • Data engineering background is a plus, but not required Who you are • Collaborative, communicative, and ownership-driven • Curious and self-directed - you push to understand the why, not just the what • A self-learner who takes initiative, owns their work end-to-end, and brings a can-do attitude More information about Shield: Shield is the industry’s most comprehensive digital communications governance and archiving solution, purpose-built for financial institutions. Named a Visionary by Gartner, Shield’s platform blends AI innovation with deep regulatory expertise to simplify compliance, strengthen security, and unlock efficiency. Trusted by leading global financial institutions, Shield works closely with its partners to help compliance teams uncover hidden risks, prevent financial crimes, and protect both people and markets. . With operations across key financial hubs worldwide, we support customers wherever they operate, navigating complex regulatory environments with confidence. At our core, we’re focused on building trust: protecting market integrity and creating a world where communication is understood and accountable. Our work has been recognized by industry leaders and analysts, including Deloitte Fast 500, Dun & Bradstreet’s Top 20 Companies, Regulation Asia Awards, and RegTech Insight Awards Europe-reflecting our impact, growth, and commitment to excellence. If you’re ready to make a real impact at a fast-growing, mission-driven company working with the world’s leading banks to redefine communication governance and compliance - this is the place for you.

Description We are looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Python Backend Engineer to join our Surveillance Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of software development and technical expertise. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants both depth and ownership: you'll design and build complex components, drive architecture and technology-selection decisions, and stay close to the product in production. The position requires strong collaboration and communication skills as you will be working alongside engineers, data scientists, and domain experts. About the Surveillance Group: The Surveillance group at Shield builds and operates advanced AI solutions. Our team is composed of engineers, data scientists and subject matter experts who work together to deliver a high-quality, production-ready Surveillance product. We push the boundaries of what is possible and measure ourselves by the impact we deliver to our clients. Let’s get down to business: What You'll Do: • Design, build and maintain the software infrastructure and solutions that make up our Surveillance pipeline, combining classic machine learning models and GenAI models with complex business logic and analytical components. • Own significant architecture decisions and evaluate and select the technologies we build on. • Solve complex engineering problems end to end, from investigation and design through implementation and rollout. • Collaborate with engineers, data scientists and subject matter experts to deliver high-quality, production-ready that are fully integrated and scalable. • Support the product in production: investigate issues, improve observability, and make the system easier to run. • Build and operate services in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) on AWS. • Hold a high engineering bar: meaningful unit tests, solid CI/CD following best practices. • Keep current with developments in software engineering and production ML infrastructure. Requirements Experience and Skills: • 5+ years of professional Python development experience - MUST • Proven experience designing software architecture for production systems - MUST • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to reason about and improve existing systems. • Strong background in Linux and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) - MUST • Hands-on experience with AWS. • Experience with distributed data and messaging technologies such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis • Experience with unit testing and CI/CD practices. • Experience running and supporting production environments • Experience working closely with Data Science teams - Advantage • Excellent communication skills and a genuine team player. • Self-motivated, results-oriented and well organized. More information about Shield: Shield is the industry’s most comprehensive digital communications governance and archiving solution, purpose-built for financial institutions. Named a Visionary by Gartner, Shield’s platform blends AI innovation with deep regulatory expertise to simplify compliance, strengthen security, and unlock efficiency. Trusted by leading global financial institutions, Shield works closely with its partners to help compliance teams uncover hidden risks, prevent financial crimes, and protect both people and markets. . With operations across key financial hubs worldwide, we support customers wherever they operate, navigating complex regulatory environments with confidence. At our core, we’re focused on building trust: protecting market integrity and creating a world where communication is understood and accountable. Our work has been recognized by industry leaders and analysts, including Deloitte Fast 500, Dun & Bradstreet’s Top 20 Companies, Regulation Asia Awards, and RegTech Insight Awards Europe-reflecting our impact, growth, and commitment to excellence. If you’re ready to make a real impact at a fast-growing, mission-driven company working with the world’s leading banks to redefine communication governance and compliance - this is the place for you.