Financial Crime & Compliance Product Manager

BVNK is a company focused on accelerating global money movement through stablecoin-native infrastructure. They are seeking an experienced Financial Crime Product Manager to manage the product lifecycle of financial crime tools and systems, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks associated with financial crime.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a clear, prioritised product roadmap for all FinCrime tools and systems. Ensure this roadmap aligns with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and our overall risk strategy
• Own and manage the engineering backlog. This includes writing detailed user stories, refining requirements, and prioritising features, enhancements, tech debt, and bugs to ensure a continuous and efficient development cycle
• Serve as the primary point of contact for engineering teams. Effectively communicate product vision, requirements, and priorities. Work closely with Compliance, Legal, Financial Crime Intelligence, and other business stakeholders to gather requirements and define product solutions
• Proactively identify opportunities for innovation and new features that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our financial crime prevention capabilities. This includes leveraging new technologies like machine learning and AI to enhance our detection models
• Stay up-to-date with global financial crime regulations (e.g., AML, KYC, Sanctions, and Fraud) and emerging trends. Ensure our products are built and maintained in a way that meets or exceeds these compliance standards
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for our FinCrime products. Use data and insights to inform product decisions, measure success, and identify areas for improvement
• Prioritise work based on a clear understanding of risk, business value, and technical complexity. Make difficult trade-off decisions to balance competing priorities from different business units

Requirements:

• 3+ Years of experience as a Product Manager, preferably within the FinTech, Financial Services, or a related technology-driven environment
• Proven experience managing an engineering backlog and working directly with development teams in an Agile or Scrum framework
• Strong understanding of financial crime prevention, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Sanctions Screening, and Fraud Detection
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical and regulatory concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A data-driven mindset and a track record of using data to inform product decisions
• Experience in a highly regulated industry
• Familiarity with financial crime tools and platforms (e.g., Transaction Monitoring systems, Case Management tools, Sanctions Screening software)
• Experience with multiple products and complex stakeholder groups