Senior Director, Product Management - Platform Governance and Compliance

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Director, Product Management – Platform Governance and Compliance based in the United States . The Senior Director will define and lead the governance, risk, and compliance strategy for an enterprise platform operating in highly regulated environments. This executive-level role combines product vision, regulatory expertise, and strategic leadership to strengthen governance, access controls, administration, and auditability across enterprise deployments.

You will guide the evolution of platform governance capabilities while ensuring alignment with customer expectations, business objectives, and changing financial services regulations. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, customers, auditors, and regulators, you will help translate complex compliance requirements into scalable product strategies. You will also lead and develop a specialized product team, establish measurable governance outcomes, and make critical prioritization decisions balancing commercial growth with regulatory risk.

This is an opportunity to shape platform-wide standards and influence security and compliance practices at an organizational level.

• Own and continuously evolve the platform governance product strategy across three core pillars:
  Governance, Control, and Administration, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
• Drive governance strategy with particular emphasis on financial services requirements, including banking, lending, credit decisioning, and consumer finance environments.
• Champion a comprehensive controls model focused on preventing risks, making informed control decisions, and continuously validating that controls remain effective.
• Promote enterprise-wide adoption of governance standards and practices across platform services and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary strategic liaison for C-suite executives, legal teams, and risk stakeholders, facilitating productive governance discussions while keeping product release schedules on track.
• Represent governance and compliance capabilities in strategic customer engagements, vendor risk assessments, and executive-level security questionnaires.
• Establish and oversee risk-adjusted prioritization frameworks, such as RICE or WSJF, balancing commercial opportunities against compliance requirements and regulatory exposure.
• Make final strategic trade-off decisions regarding product investments, regulatory obligations, and risk management priorities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Platform Governance and Compliance team, setting priorities and ensuring high-quality execution across product requirements documents, epics, and audit-readiness initiatives.
• Apply practical knowledge of financial services regulations and requirements, including GLBA and model risk management practices, to guide platform strategy.
• Engage directly with regulators and auditors when required, representing the organization's governance approach and compliance capabilities.
• Define and monitor platform-level KPIs measuring governance, control, and administration effectiveness.
• Communicate governance performance, strategic progress, and key risks to executive leadership.

• Extensive experience in platform product management, governance, or compliance leadership, with substantial expertise in financial services such as banking, lending, credit decisioning, or consumer finance.
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing governance strategies within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Additional experience in enterprise SaaS,…