VP Product

Role Overview

• Set and drive the overall product strategy, vision, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives and long-term business strategy.
• Ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in our internal and external communication as well as at the Executive Leadership Team meetings and discussions.
• Partner closely with Sales and Marketing on the Go-to-Market strategy, taking substantial input on product packaging, messaging, pricing, and partnerships to maximize market impact and P&L performance.
• Implement robust, modern agile product development processes. Maintain a bias towards data-driven execution, balancing long-term product vision with short-term commercial pressures in a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Ensuring that the leadership principles of Ripjar are always upheld ensuring a collaborative culture that celebrates innovation and provides a safe space for all to achieve their best.
• Advise executive leadership on global regulations, typologies, sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, and risk-based compliance frameworks within the AML/FinCrime sector.
• Translate evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., 6AMLD, AMLA, FATF updates) into actionable product enhancements and future product vision, ensuring our solutions maintain absolute compliance, are visionary and market leading in terms of both performance and features.
• Collaborate with Data Science and Engineering to shape features and support the development of AI models and workflows, ensuring their suitability, efficacy, and compliance for critical financial crime activities.
• Build out and scale the Product Management and User Experience (UX) functions to meet global business needs.
• Attract, recruit, retain, coach, and develop top-tier product management and design talent, embedding requisite domain expertise within the teams. Foster a collaborative, product-led culture that encourages experimentation and rapid feedback.
• Coordinate the collection of high-quality, nuanced client feedback, ensuring the entire company understands client FinCrime needs and how the product suite addresses them.
• Act as a trusted external advisor in high-stakes client engagements, workshops, and proof-of-concept projects, leveraging deep domain credibility to secure new deals and major renewals.
• Partner with marketing team by contributing to high impact thought leadership content (white papers, blogs) and chairing client roundtables and presenting at major industry events.

Requirements

• Experience building and leading a robust product function and driving a product-led business culture, ideally within an Enterprise SaaS, platform, or data-heavy technology company.
• Experience in AML compliance, risk management, or financial crime prevention, gained within a financial institution (Tier 1/2 bank) or a leading RegTech provider.
• Applied knowledge of global AML frameworks, sanctions, PEP screening, Adverse Media, and FATF standards, with a proven track record of translating complex regulations into successful commercial products.
• Have previously operated within or extensively served the Banking and Financial Services sector around financial crime and data analytics solutions.
• Experience operating in an environment utilising ML/AI components in product development. Familiarity with API-enabled, modular, SaaS compliance software solutions is highly desirable.
• Exceptional communication skills. Confident public speaker, capable of quickly establishing credibility with teams, peers, founders, investors, and C-suite clients.

Tech Stack

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Benefits

• Competitive base salary DOE
• 25 days annual leave + birthdays off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service & Christmas shutdown.
• Fully remote working
• 35 hour working week
• Flexible working hours.
• Private Family Healthcare
• Life Assurance
• Pension salary sacrifice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company contributions to your pension
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro
• There is a well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks when in the office