Product Owner / Project Manager

Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Alpharetta GA (Hybrid)
Type: Fulltime

Job Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision: Define and communicate the strategic vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with financial crime compliance trends, regulatory changes, and customer needs.
• Market Research & Competitive Analysis: Conduct market analysis to identify customer challenges, emerging risks, and competitive positioning in the financial crime compliance space.
• Regulatory Compliance & Industry Standards: Stay updated on FCC regulations (e.g., BSA, AMLD, FATF, OFAC, FinCEN) and ensure product features align with compliance requirements.
• Backlog Management & Prioritization: Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring feature development aligns with client priorities and business objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary liaison between customers, development teams, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, validate use cases, and ensure seamless product delivery.
• Feature Definition & Development: Work with development teams to define clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications for new product enhancements and integrations.
• Customer & User Experience Focus: Collaborate with UX/UI teams to enhance the usability and effectiveness of interfaces and workflows.
• Performance Monitoring: Define and track product KPIs to measure effectiveness, adoption, and compliance accuracy. Use data-driven insights to drive product improvements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with sales, marketing, and professional services teams to ensure successful go-to-market strategies and customer onboarding.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of product management experience in financial crime compliance (FCC), AML, fraud detection, or regulatory technology (RegTech).
• Experience with AML and fraud detection platforms, including transaction monitoring, case management, and sanctions screening systems.
• Familiarity with data analytics tools like SQL, Python, or Tableau for compliance reporting.
• Strong understanding of financial crime risk management, AML solutions, and transaction monitoring platforms.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as BSA, AMLD, KYC, and sanctions compliance.
• Experience working with AI-driven AML solutions, behavioral analytics, and risk-scoring models.

Agile & Product Development Experience:

• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe).
• Expertise in writing user stories, backlog grooming, and sprint planning.

Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills:

• Ability to interpret financial crime patterns and compliance risks using data-driven insights.

Communication & Stakeholder Management:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey product vision, requirements, and judicious roadmaps.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams and external customers, including financial institutions, regulators, and compliance officers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: ACAMS, CFE, ICA Diploma in AML, or equivalent financial crime compliance certifications.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field. A master's degree is a plus.

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