Financial Crime & Compliance Product Manager Poland​/Spain​/Malta​/Bulgaria​/South

Financial Crime & Compliance Product Manager

UK / Poland / Spain / Malta / Bulgaria / South Africa

We’re looking for an experienced Financial Crime Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the end‑to‑end product lifecycle of our financial crime tools and systems, managing the engineering backlog, and driving a roadmap focused on mitigating financial crime risk. This role is crucial to ensuring our technology remains robust, compliant, and ahead of evolving threats like money laundering, fraud, and sanctions evasion.

You will act as the key liaison between the business and our engineering teams, translating complex financial crime requirements into clear, actionable user stories. You will manage the backlog, prioritize tech debt, and champion new features and innovation that directly enhance our ability to detect and prevent illicit financial activity across multiple product lines.

• Product Strategy &
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Develop and maintain a clear, prioritised product roadmap for all Fin Crime tools and systems. Ensure this roadmap aligns with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and our overall risk strategy.
• Backlog Management: 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.
• Stakeholder Management: 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.
• Innovation & Enhancement: 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.
• Regulatory & Compliance Expertise: 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.
• Performance Analysis: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for our Fin Crime products. Use data and insights to inform product decisions, measure success, and identify areas for improvement.
• Risk & Prioritization: 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.

• 3+ Years of experience as a Product Manager, preferably within the Fin Tech, 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.

• Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
• Meaningful ownership in the business through our employee option scheme
• Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart
• A culture built on passionate, growth‑minded people
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world
• An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, its culture, and its opportunity sets