Job#: 3020209 Job Description: Job Title: Product Manager - Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)
Length: 6-12 month contract-to-hire
About the Role We are seeking a dynamic
Product Manager to lead the evolution of our
Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) product line. This role is pivotal in shaping solutions that enable the organization to manage regulatory obligations, mitigate risk, and strengthen governance frameworks. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative capabilities that align with industry standards and customer needs.
The digital Product Manager for the GRC product line gets to manage the portfolio of innovative and critical products required to support critical compliance and governance processes. The role has three primary responsibilities: develops and owns the execution of the vision of their products, sets product priorities, and engages with key stakeholders to ensure we are working on the highest value opportunities.
Key Responsibilities - Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute the short and long-term GRC product vision, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market trends.
- Governance Integration: Expand existing compliance offerings to include governance capabilities, enabling holistic risk oversight and decision-making.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Establish relationships with business and platform stakeholders to identify areas to improve processes with digital solutions
- Risk Management Enablement: Drive enhancements that help customers identify, assess, and mitigate risks effectively.
- Performance Metrics: Establish KPIs to measure product success, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Monitor regulatory changes and emerging technologies to keep the product line competitive and compliant.
Leadership Competencies - Strategic Thinking: Ability to define long-term vision and translate it into actionable plans that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Influence & Collaboration: Skilled at building consensus across diverse stakeholders, including legal, compliance, IT, and executive leadership.
- Change Leadership: Drive adoption of new governance and risk practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Confident in making informed decisions in complex regulatory and risk environments.
- Execution Excellence: Balance strategic priorities with hands-on delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes.
Key Performance Goals Deliver Results: Translates business strategy to action and comfortably navigates through ambiguity and competing priorities to deliver opportunities. Effective working and delivering within a scrum team. Proven experience in leading and delivering high quality, high impact digital initiatives. Strong Agile experience with rapid decision making and iterative product development.
Leadership Behaviors: Strategically partners and builds relationships internally and externally to drive value creation and outcomes. Fosters positive teaming environment and works effectively with diverse stakeholders and cultures across organizational boundaries and levels.
Qualifications - Proven experience in Agile product management, preferably in legal domains.
- Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and enterprise risk management principles.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing complex projects is a plus.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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