Principal Product Manager - Transaction Monitoring

The Role

We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to own the Transaction Monitoring product area within our Risk Applications tribe. This is a senior individual contributor role with genuine commercial accountability: you are responsible for business outcomes in your domain, not just delivery.

Transaction monitoring is a core compliance capability: regulated financial institutions must continuously scrutinise customer transactions to detect suspicious activities indicative of money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud. The product analyses transaction amounts, frequency, origin and destination to identify anomalies, generates alerts when criteria are met, and supports the investigation and reporting workflows that follow. Institutions that fail to maintain effective transaction monitoring face severe regulatory penalties.

Transaction Monitoring is ComplyAdvantage's flagship product and is already in market on the company's modern Mesh platform. The product has a strong competitive position and a growing customer base. The PPM inherits a product that is live, commercially successful and continuing to evolve. The job is to keep it there: driving competitive advantage through AI-based capabilities (such as the rules builder), iterating on customer and market feedback, and ensuring the product stays ahead of a market that is moving fast.

You will work within a dedicated squad alongside an engineering manager and engineers. As PPM, you are the senior partner on product decisions in that squad: you own the customer requirements, the competitive context and the commercial logic. Your engineering counterpart owns architecture, sizing and implementation. You work as peers, but in Risk Apps the PPM sets the product specification.

You will operate within a structured product operating model with clear decision rights. The CPTO sets product vision; the Product Director builds the tribe-level roadmap; you translate your product area into executable plans with trackable returns. Each squad represents a significant engineering investment, and you are expected to think about your product decisions in those terms: balancing continued investment in competitive differentiation against the commercial returns on specific product choices. If you have worked in organisations where product management is disciplined and commercially accountable, this will feel familiar. If you are looking for a role with full strategic autonomy and no governance framework, this is not the right fit.

What You Will Do

Own transaction monitoring as a product area with a GM mindset. Understand the competitive landscape, know the buyer, and be accountable for whether the product is working commercially. Transaction monitoring is a competitive market with established vendors. ComplyAdvantage's advantage is the combination of proprietary data, AI-driven detection and a modern platform. Your job is to extend that advantage through product decisions that create measurable differentiation.

Keep the product competitive and evolving. The product is in market and growing. The challenge is not getting to launch; it is maintaining and extending a product lead through continuous improvement. This means understanding where the market is moving (AI-driven rules, real-time detection, reduced false positives, better analyst experience), prioritising the features that create the most competitive distance, and iterating rapidly on customer feedback. You need to be as rigorous about what not to build as about what to build.

Understand the transaction monitoring domain. This is a domain hire. You need to understand how transaction monitoring works in practice: rule configuration, threshold management, alert generation, investigation workflows, SAR filing, regulatory expectations (including 4AMLD/5AMLD/6AMLD, FinCEN requirements, FCA guidance). You need to be credible with compliance buyers who live in this world every day and who will test your knowledge quickly.

Drive AI-driven product capabilities. AI is central to the TM product roadmap: rules builders, anomaly detection, risk scoring, false positive reduction. You need enough understanding of what ML and LLM-based capabilities can do in a transaction monitoring context to write requirements that are ambitious but realistic, and to work productively with Data Science and ML engineers in your squad.

Work directly with customers and prospects. You will be the product voice in transaction monitoring conversations with the field, working with Solutions Consulting, Customer Success and Sales. TM is the flagship product; customers and prospects pay close attention to its roadmap and capabilities. You are expected to engage with enterprise compliance teams on their terms, understand their operational pain points, and translate that into product decisions. Customer-facing commitments with dates require CPTO sign-off.

Drive requirements through a clear planning process. We work in six-week blocks. The document flow runs Plan of Record to PRD to product requirements to implementation, with quality gates at each stage. You will own PRDs for transaction monitoring capabilities and draft requirements using AI-assisted workflows, refining them jointly with your EM.

Manage cross-tribe dependencies. Transaction monitoring depends on capabilities in our Data tribe (intelligence graph, entity resolution, ML models, risk scoring) and Platform tribe (real-time processing, API surface, enabling services). Requirements originating in your product area cascade to those tribes as derived requirements through the formal planning process. You need enough technical understanding to write requirements that are realistic and to engage constructively with engineering in those tribes.

Use AI in your own work. We expect PPMs to use AI-assisted workflows for requirements generation, competitive analysis and document production. This is how we work, not something we aspire to.

What We Are Looking For

Essential:

• 8+ years in product management, with at least 3 years in senior IC roles owning complex B2B SaaS products in financial services, compliance or adjacent regulated industries
• Direct experience with transaction monitoring, AML, or closely related compliance products. This is a domain hire: the transaction monitoring market is specific and the buyer expects domain depth
• Track record of maintaining and extending a competitive product position through iterative improvement, not just launching new products
• Commercial credibility with enterprise compliance buyers: you have engaged directly with customers, understood their operational and regulatory challenges, and turned that into product decisions that drove revenue
• Strong understanding of AI/ML capabilities in a compliance context, sufficient to drive an AI-focused product roadmap and write requirements that Data Science and ML engineers can build from
• Demonstrable AI adoption in your own working practice: not "interested in AI" but already using it to work differently
• Experience operating within a structured product organisation where strategic direction was set above you, and delivering excellent outcomes within that framework

Preferred:

• Deep familiarity with the transaction monitoring competitive landscape and the major vendors
• Understanding of regulatory requirements across jurisdictions (4AMLD/5AMLD/6AMLD, FinCEN, FCA, MAS)
• Experience with AI-driven product capabilities in compliance: rules engines, anomaly detection, false positive reduction, risk scoring
• Experience managing a product through a period of rapid customer growth and market expansion

What Success Looks Like

At 60 days: You understand the transaction monitoring product, the competitive landscape, the customer base, the Mesh platform and how the operating model works. You have built relationships with your squad, the Product Director, Data Science, Solutions Consulting and key commercial stakeholders. You have a clear view of where the product's competitive advantage lies and where it needs to go next.

At 4 months: You are driving the product roadmap with confidence: extending AI-driven capabilities, responding to customer feedback, and making disciplined prioritisation decisions. Your PRDs are clear, your requirements pass quality gates, and your squad trusts your product judgement. The Product Director and CPTO have confidence in your commercial and domain judgement.

At 8 months: Transaction monitoring on Mesh is extending its competitive lead. Customer feedback is being translated into product improvements at a pace the market notices. You are the recognised domain authority on transaction monitoring within the company, trusted by commercial, respected by engineering, and contributing to the broader Risk Apps strategy.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary aligned to your skills and experience 
• Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best 
• We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve 
• Annual learning budget to drive your performance and career development  
• Company Pension Scheme 
• Company Health Care Plan 
• Travel - season ticket loan 
• Cycle to work scheme with Evans Cycles