Product Manager II - Financial Crime Operations

United States, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

This person will own the investigation platform roadmap end to end. They will manage how alerts are created, enriched, and processed into cases for Compliance Operations.

What you will do

Own the investigation-platform roadmap end to end.
Define deliverables and acceptance criteria for Compliance sign-off.
Build the intake between Compliance policy, monitoring rules and case management.
Reconcile policy and SOPs against investigator actions and system functions.
Manage the pipeline including ingestion, profile and transaction resolution, suppression and grouping logic.
Ensure auditability through audit trails, data lineage, and evidence retention.
Ship automation and AI into regulated workflows with controls.
Run the operating rhythm with engineering and adjacent product managers.

Required qualifications

4+ years of product management
2+ years on financial-crime systems such as transaction monitoring, investigations, case management, KYC/EDD or sanctions screening
Working knowledge of how an AML programme is examined
Technical fluency to go deep on data flows and system design with engineers
Track record of shipping internal tools or operational platforms
Clear, concise writing

Nice to have

Direct FIU experience, such as alert disposition, SAR/STR filing or leading investigators
Crypto or digital-asset experience, such as blockchain analytics, wallet-level transaction analysis or focal vs counterparty logic
Experience shipping AI or ML into a regulated investigative workflow, including the control design
Build-vs-buy and vendor evaluation for monitoring or case-management tooling
Experience with programmes that span jurisdictions (UK, EU/MiCA, US)

Before you apply

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About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is a crypto platform trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.