Principal Product Manager - Risk & Compliance (Canada)

Role: Principal Product Manager – Risk & Compliance
Location: Toronto/GTA preferred; Ottawa considered
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
Work Model: Remote within Canada
Salary + Bonus + Stock Options + Health Benefits

About the Role

The Principal Product Manager – Risk & Compliance will own the roadmap for compliance and risk-related products and capabilities across the organization. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Risk teams to design scalable systems that ensure regulatory adherence, fraud prevention, and operational excellence across global markets.

This strategic role is balancing regulatory rigor with product innovation to enable compliant, efficient, and customer-friendly payment experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of global regulatory trends and bring innovative compliance solutions to the product roadmap.
• Product Leadership: Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for risk and compliance products and tools (e.g., transaction monitoring, KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention).
• Regulatory Enablement: Translate complex regulatory requirements (FinCEN, Fintrac, OFAC, PSD2, AUSTRAC, etc.) into scalable product features and processes.
• Risk Management: Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to identify key risks and implement systems to detect and mitigate them in real time.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Data, Legal, and Operations to deliver compliance-by-design solutions.
• Vendor & Partner Management: Evaluate and manage third-party vendors providing compliance tools or data integrations (e.g., KYC providers, transaction screening APIs).
• Metrics & Reporting: Establish KPIs and dashboards to monitor compliance performance, operational risk, and fraud trends.
• Customer Experience: Ensure that compliance processes remain frictionless, balancing user experience with regulatory obligations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, with at least 3+ years in risk, compliance, or fraud within payments, fintech, or financial services.
• Deep understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions, fraud, and data privacy regulations.
• Proven ability to deliver compliant solutions that scale across multiple markets and jurisdictions.
• Strong technical acumen — able to work closely with engineering teams and data pipelines.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with compliance technology (KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions APIs, etc.) is highly desirable.

Why Join Veem?

Shape the Future of Global Payments

You will help define how businesses move money internationally as the industry evolves toward faster, more intelligent, and more flexible payment infrastructure.

Lead High-Impact Technical Transformation

This role provides the scope and influence to drive meaningful change across architecture, engineering practices, platform capabilities, and organizational strategy.

Work on AI, Stablecoins, and Emerging Financial Technology

You will have the opportunity to move beyond theoretical experimentation and help determine how these technologies can be used in real-world financial systems.

Operate With Executive Visibility

You will partner directly with senior leadership and contribute to decisions that shape Veem’s long-term product and technology direction.

Maintain Hands-On Technical Impact

This is a senior leadership role for someone who still wants to engage deeply in architecture, systems, and technical problem-solving.

Join an Entrepreneurial Environment

Veem offers the opportunity to move quickly, challenge assumptions, introduce new ideas, and make a visible impact.

Build Systems That Matter

The systems you help design will support real businesses moving real money across borders. Reliability, speed, trust, and technical quality directly affect our customers.

Mentor and Multiply Engineering Talent

You will have the opportunity to develop senior engineers, strengthen technical leadership, and help shape Veem’s engineering culture.

Meaningful Equity Upside

In addition to competitive compensation, this role includes equity participation and the opportunity to share in the long-term value created as Veem continues to grow.

What Success Looks Like

During your first year, you will be expected to:

• Build a deep understanding of Veem’s platform, architecture, customers, payment flows, and business strategy.
• Establish strong relationships with Engineering, Product, Security, Compliance, Data, Operations, and executive leadership.
• Identify the most important architectural risks, constraints, and opportunities across the platform.
• Create clear technical direction for several of Veem’s highest-priority initiatives.
• Lead or materially influence major platform, AI, payment, or modernization programs.
• Improve the quality and consistency of architecture and technical decision-making across teams.
• Introduce practical AI capabilities that improve engineering productivity or operational performance.
• Help define Veem’s technical approach to stablecoins and emerging payment infrastructure.
• Mentor senior engineers and help strengthen technical leadership across the organization.
• Deliver measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or platform capability.
• Establish yourself as a trusted technical advisor who can bring clarity to Veem’s most complex engineering challenges.

Join Veem

Veem is entering an important stage of its technical evolution.

The future of global payments will be shaped by intelligent automation, real-time infrastructure, new settlement technologies, stronger platform capabilities, and engineering teams that can turn emerging technology into trusted financial products.

As Principal Engineer, you will have the opportunity to help build that future.

You will influence how Veem’s systems are designed, how our engineering organization operates, and how we use AI, stablecoins, blockchain, and modern cloud technologies to create a stronger global payments platform.

If you are a deeply technical, forward-thinking engineering leader who wants to make a company-wide impact, we would love to hear from you.