Compliance Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Our financial client is seeking a Compliance Project Manager for a long-term, hybrid contract position. The role will support technology initiatives across several core Compliance domains, including:

· KYC / AML – Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, client due diligence, onboarding, monitoring, and related compliance processes and technology.

Surveillance – Technology supporting regulatory and compliance surveillance, monitoring, alerting, investigations, and associated workflows.

Electronic Communications & Archiving – Solutions supporting communications capture, retention, archiving, supervision, search, and regulatory requirements.

FINRA Registration & Licensing – Technology and processes supporting employee registration, licensing, regulatory filings, and related FINRA requirements. Primary Responsibilities

· Own product vision, roadmap, backlog, and priorities for assigned Compliance technology solutions.

· Partner with Compliance stakeholders to define business needs, requirements, product capabilities, and success measures.

· Translate requirements into BRDs/FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and functional/technical specifications, ensuring traceability.

· Lead product discovery and solution assessment, including build-vs.-buy analysis and MVP definition.

· Develop and maintain integrated project plans, coordinating activities, milestones, dependencies, and delivery readiness.

· Manage product and project priorities across business, architecture, governance, engineering, and other technology teams.

· Maintain RAID logs, proactively identifying and escalating risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.

· Lead project and working sessions, ensuring decisions, actions, and follow-ups are clearly documented and executed.

· Provide concise status reporting and executive communications to senior business and technology stakeholders.

· Drive UAT, release readiness, adoption, and continuous improvement based on stakeholder feedback and product performance.

· Track KPIs, adoption, and business outcomes to measure product effectiveness and inform future enhancements.

Required Qualifications

· 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager / Product Manager on complex, cross-functional initiatives

· Experience managing complex Compliance products and Tech projects

· Demonstrated hands-on ownership of standard project management artifacts and cadence

· Experience stepping into in-flight or partially formed initiatives and stabilizing execution

· Experience working alongside engineering [BC1] teams in a non-design capacity

· Experience in financial services

· Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent efforts

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Comfortable facing off with senior stakeholders

· Ability to operate independently with minimal day-to-day direction