Project Manager - Compliance

Job Description

Job Description

We are seeking a seasoned Project Manager / Product Manager to lead strategic technology initiatives supporting a sophisticated Compliance organization within a global financial-services environment.

This is a hands-on role combining project execution, product management, business analysis, and senior stakeholder management.
You will work closely with Compliance, Technology, Operations, Engineering, Architecture, and Governance teams to translate regulatory and business requirements into effective technology solutions and drive initiatives from discovery through implementation.

Key Compliance Areas
The role may support technology initiatives across:

• KYC / AML – Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, client due diligence, onboarding, and monitoring.
• Surveillance – Regulatory surveillance, monitoring, alerting, investigations, and workflow.
• Electronic Communications & Archiving – Communications capture, retention, archiving, supervision, search, and regulatory requirements.
• Client Registration & Licensing – Employee registration, licensing, regulatory filings, and related requirements.

What You'll Do
Product Management

• Own product vision, roadmap, backlog, and priorities for assigned Compliance technology solutions.
• Partner with Compliance stakeholders to define business needs, requirements, capabilities, and success measures.
• Lead product discovery and solution assessment, including build-vs.-buy analysis and MVP definition .
• Track KPIs, adoption, and business outcomes to guide future enhancements.

Project Management & Delivery

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, and delivery readiness.
• Manage priorities across business, architecture, governance, engineering, and technology teams.
• Maintain RAID logs and proactively identify and resolve risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.
• Lead project and working sessions and ensure decisions, actions, and follow-ups are executed.
• Drive UAT, release readiness, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Provide concise status reporting and executive communications to senior stakeholders.

Business Analysis

• Translate business and regulatory requirements into:
  • BRDs / FRDs
  • User stories
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Process maps
  • Functional specifications
  • Technical requirements
• Ensure requirements remain traceable through solution delivery and testing.
• Work closely with Engineering teams while operating in a non-design capacity .

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager, Product Manager, or similar role on complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing Compliance technology products and projects .
• Experience in financial services .
• Strong hands-on experience with project management processes, artifacts, and delivery cadence.
• Proven ability to step into in-flight or partially formed initiatives and stabilize execution .
• Strong business analysis and requirements-management experience.
• Experience working alongside Engineering teams in a non-design capacity.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working with senior business and technology stakeholders .
• Able to operate independently with minimal day-to-day direction.
• Data-literate and comfortable working with technology, data, and business processes.

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a hands-on delivery leader who understands both the business and technology sides of Compliance.
You can manage a roadmap and backlog, but you're equally comfortable building a project plan, writing requirements, running a stakeholder workshop, managing UAT, or escalating a delivery blocker.
You are comfortable operating in a complex financial-services environment and can bring structure and momentum to initiatives that may not be fully defined when you join.