Product Manager, Data

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Product Manager, Data

$120,000 – $150,000

Castellum.

AI is an AI layer for compliance infrastructure. We provide intelligence data, AI-driven screening across Sanctions, PEPs, and Adverse Media, and AI Agents to resolve alerts. Our customers have seen results like reducing their false positive rate by 94% via our screening engine and reducing the amount of time analysts spend on alerts by 80% by using our AI Agents. Our customers include a Top Four US Bank, a Top Three Global Payments Company and a Top Five Digital Asset Company, and we're scaling to meet demand.

You’ll own the product execution for our core product: our data platform and pipelines. This covers our sanctions lists, watchlists, PEP data, and regulatory sources that feed everything else we sell, and the ingestion pipeline behind them.

• The list source roadmap. Which lists, watchlists, PEP sources, and regulatory feeds we add next, in what order, and why.
• The definition of data quality. You set the targets for coverage, accuracy, deduplication, and freshness. Engineering builds to them, and you hold the line on them.
• Match quality as a customer outcome. False positive rate and true positive recall are how customers judge our data. You own the requirements behind both.
• New sources, end to end. Scope the source, define the schema and the edge cases, write the spec, lead acceptance testing, and confirm what landed is what customers needed.
• Third-party data partners. Evaluate vendors, scope integrations, and pressure test what they claim their data covers
• The bridge to sales and customers. Prospect calls, product trials, implementation scoping, onboarding, and turning what you hear into the next thing on the roadmap.
• More surface area over time. The screening engine, Adverse Media, or Arbiter's data layer, depending on where you're strongest and where we need you.

• ~4 to 6 hours in ceremonies. Standup, sprint planning, grooming, retro. We keep it light.
• ~5 hours with customers and prospects. Sales calls, technical discovery, troubleshooting, onboarding, feedback.
• The rest is product work. Writing specs precise enough to build from, grooming the backlog, QA'ing data output, enabling the go-to-market team, digging into a match failure in postman yourself before escalating it, and deciding what work comes next.

• You’ll report to the Head of Product, who sets strategic direction while you own execution and delivery.
• Your primary counterpart is the data engineer who owns our scrapers, our Python ETL pipelines, and the implementation of everything you scope.
• The split we run: you define what good means for our data and what order we build it in. Engineering owns how it gets built and how it stays running.
• You’ll partner and collaborate across our go-to-market team to ensure sales, client success, and solutions engineering all have the right context and share back meaningful insights to keep our product feedback loop strong.

• 3 to 5 years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, fintech, compliance tech, or on a data or platform product.
• Are comfortable getting hands‑on in an early‑stage startup environment and figuring things out yourself
• Excel at execution and delivery—you figure out how to work with engineering to ship products on time that add meaningful value.
• Fierce commitment to identifying and delivering the minimum viable product. You treat sequencing as the real decision, not scope.
• You get real value out of AI tools, and you notice when the model makes the wrong tradeoff. You ship work you understand and stand behind.
• Have excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills with ability to make data‑driven decisions.
• Can translate technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders and vice versa.
• Can communicate quickly, respectfully and concisely.

• Working knowledge of sanctions and watchlist data: OFAC, EU, UN, PEPs, how the lists are structured, and why entity matching on them is hard.
• Experience with data ingestion, ETL, or products built on scraped sources.
• Experience owning a precision…