AML Compliance Senior Product Manager, Financial Crimes Technology - USDS

About the Team
The USDS Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) team executes various AML functions, including investigations of transaction monitoring alerts; investigations of suspected money laundering, financial crime, and scam/fraud activity from internal and external partners; KYC/CDD/EDD reviews; and other related duties. This role will oversee the management, development, and enhancement of compliance products within the FCC department, serving as the bridge between the operations team and engineering team to support business needs.

About the Role
The Senior AML Compliance Product Manager will play a pivotal strategic role in optimizing and managing a suite of compliance products within the Financial Crimes Compliance function, overseeing the strategy, development, and enhancement of platforms and tools to enable operations, advance risk detection, and support compliance requirements. This role will be responsible for conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), managing cosmetic and functional updates, and owning Business and Product Requirements Documents (BRDs/PRDs) for multiple products.

To enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities
- Define clear product roadmaps and prioritize features based on regulatory expectations and business impact.
- Oversee full lifecycle of compliance products, including in-depth requirements analysis, roadmap planning, technical specification/design, user acceptance testing, and deployment across FCC.
- Establish metrics to monitor product performance, assess existing tools, and identify opportunities for improvements.
- Proactively uncover opportunities to enhance models, leveraging advanced AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), and develop compelling business cases to secure alignment with Compliance and Engineering teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align solutions with business and operational needs to enhance overall operations and risk mitigation capabilities.
- Conduct in-depth code and architecture reviews to ensure adherence to compliance protocols, optimization for scalability, and collaborate with teams to troubleshoot, refine workflows, and validate technical feasibility at every phase of development.
- Perform special projects and additional duties and responsibilities as required.