Head of Financial Crime Product

Join our team as the Head of Financial Crime Product, where you will set the strategy and own the roadmap for our financial crime controls. You will lead a team of Product Owners and work closely with Operations, Compliance, and Engineering to determine what gets built, why, and how well it performs once live. This role offers a competitive salary, private health insurance, the option to work abroad, and various other benefits.

• Set the strategy and own the roadmap for the products behind financial crime controls, from onboarding and screening to monitoring and case management.
• Lead and develop a team of Product Owners, establishing clear ownership of product areas and helping the team make sound decisions through research and data analysis.
• Prioritize improvements with Operations, Compliance, and Engineering, examining the underlying problem, assessing alternative solutions, and making trade-offs explicit.

• Clear communication with senior stakeholders in Compliance, Operations and Engineering, and the judgement to make trade-offs between risk, customer impact and delivery effort visible
• A track record of owning a roadmap and delivering with Engineering, writing clear requirements and acceptance criteria, and keeping product decisions separate from technical design
• Significant product management experience in financial crime, regtech or compliance technology, including leading other product managers or product owners
• Strong working knowledge of financial crime controls: customer due diligence and KYC, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention and case management
• Experience making build-or-buy decisions and managing third-party vendors, including integration, cost and performance expectations
• Hands-on experience delivering automation or machine learning in a regulated setting, with defined evaluation methods, human oversight and post-deployment monitoring
• Understanding of AML and counter-terrorist financing requirements across several jurisdictions, such as the UK Money Laundering Regulations, the EU AML Directives and their equivalents in Australia, the UAE and the Bahamas, and how they translate into product requirements
• Comfort using data to find problems and measure results, for example alert volumes, false positive rates, case handling times and customer drop-off
• Experience in online brokerage, trading platforms, payments or digital banking
• Familiarity with financial crime vendors and tools for screening, identity verification, transaction monitoring or case management
• Experience launching products or entering new markets under different regulators