Financial Crime & Compliance Product Manager
BVNK enables businesses to send, receive, and convert any currency using modern payment infrastructure.
Investors
About BVNK
BVNK provides a unified platform for fiat, stablecoin, and cryptocurrency payments, offering businesses the ability to launch stablecoin wallets, multi-currency accounts, and add crypto payments to their checkout. The platform is designed for high-volume transactions, catering to established businesses with specific payment needs.
Skills
About the Role
You will take end-to-end ownership of the product lifecycle for financial crime tools and systems, managing the engineering backlog and driving a roadmap focused on mitigating financial crime risk. You'll act as the key liaison between the business and engineering teams, translating complex financial crime requirements into clear, actionable user stories. You'll manage the backlog, prioritize tech debt, and champion new features that enhance your organization's ability to detect and prevent illicit financial activity across multiple product lines. You'll stay ahead of evolving threats like money laundering, fraud, and sanctions evasion, ensuring the technology you build remains robust and compliant.
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
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a clear prioritised product roadmap for all FinCrime tools and systems
- Ensure the roadmap aligns with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and overall risk strategy
- Own and manage the engineering backlog
- Write detailed user stories and refine requirements
- Prioritise features, enhancements, tech debt, and bugs to ensure a continuous development cycle
- Serve as the primary point of contact for engineering teams
- Communicate product vision, requirements, and priorities
- Work closely with Compliance, Legal, and Financial Crime Intelligence teams to gather requirements and define product solutions
- Identify opportunities for innovation and new features to improve financial crime prevention
- Leverage machine learning and AI to enhance detection models
- Stay up-to-date with global financial crime regulations and emerging trends
- Ensure products meet or exceed compliance standards
- Define and track key performance indicators for FinCrime products
- Use data and insights to inform product decisions and measure success
- Prioritise work based on risk, business value, and technical complexity
- Make trade-off decisions to balance competing priorities from different business units
Benefits
- Meaningful ownership in the business through employee option scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid working
- A flexible approach to holiday
- Opportunities to travel to offices around the world