Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead

Primary Skill: Project Management, Jira, Confluence

Job Description:

·         We are seeking a VP, Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead to support execution and governance of product due diligence and risk approval processes for new and enhanced product launches.

·         The role is responsible for driving disciplined execution of approval workflows and ensuring closure of all pre-go-live conditions.

·         The candidate will coordinate across Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Technology, and Operations teams to ensure launch readiness.

·         This position involves tracking approvals, dependencies, action items, and closure evidence through structured governance processes.

·         The role will manage working sessions, governance checkpoints, decision logs, RAID logs, and approval dashboards.

·         The candidate will ensure due diligence documentation is complete, accurate, and review-ready as per process standards.

·         A strong focus on pre-go-live condition tracking, evidence validation, and approval attestation management is essential.

·         The individual will proactively identify risks, escalate blockers, and support timely decision-making.

·         The role requires preparing executive-level status updates, escalation materials, and concise progress reporting.

·         Candidates should have strong expertise in cross-functional program execution and governance management.

·         Experience in product approval, launch readiness, and risk/control processes within regulated environments is highly preferred. Proficiency in project tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence is desirable.

·         Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational discipline are critical for success.

·         Coordinate end-to-end due diligence and risk approval activities across cross-functional teams.

·         Track and drive closure of pre-go-live conditions, approvals, evidence collection, and validations. Maintain governance artifacts including workplans, RAID logs, decision logs, and approval dashboards.

·         Facilitate working sessions, status reviews, and escalation discussions with stakeholders. Prepare executive-level reporting on risks, conditions progress, milestones, and approvals.

·         Product governance and risk approval workflow tools. Jira and Confluence, Risk, issue, and dependency tracking frameworks, Governance dashboard and reporting tools, Documentation and evidence management systems, Workflow/process management tools, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for reporting and executive updates, Compliance and control process management systems.