Principal Product Manager - Transaction Monitoring

We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to own the Transaction Monitoring product area within our Risk Applications tribe. This is a senior individual contributor role with genuine commercial accountability: you are responsible for business outcomes in your domain, not just delivery.

Transaction monitoring is a core compliance capability: regulated financial institutions must continuously scrutinise customer transactions to detect suspicious activities indicative of money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud. The product analyses transaction amounts, frequency, origin and destination to identify anomalies, generates alerts when criteria are met, and supports the investigation and reporting workflows that follow. Institutions that fail to maintain effective transaction monitoring face severe regulatory penalties.

Transaction Monitoring is ComplyAdvantage's flagship product and is already in market on the company's modern Mesh platform. The product has a strong competitive position and a growing customer base. The PPM inherits a product that is live, commercially successful and continuing to evolve. The job is to keep it there: driving competitive advantage through AI-based capabilities (such as the rules builder), iterating on customer and market feedback, and ensuring the product stays ahead of a market that is moving fast.

You will work within a dedicated squad alongside an engineering manager and engineers. As PPM, you are the senior partner on product decisions in that squad: you own the customer requirements, the competitive context and the commercial logic. Your engineering counterpart owns architecture, sizing and implementation. You work as peers, but in Risk Apps the PPM sets the product specification.

You will operate within a structured product operating model with clear decision rights. The CPTO sets product vision; the Product Director builds the tribe-level roadmap; you translate your product area into executable plans with trackable returns. Each squad represents a significant engineering investment, and you are expected to think about your product decisions in those terms: balancing continued investment in competitive differentiation against the commercial returns on specific product choices. If you have worked in organisations where product management is disciplined and commercially accountable, this will feel familiar. If you are looking for a role with full strategic autonomy and no governance framework, this is not the right fit.

• 8+ years in product management, with at least 3 years in senior IC roles owning complex B2B SaaS products in financial services, compliance or adjacent regulated industries
• Direct experience with transaction monitoring, AML, or closely related compliance products. This is a domain hire: the transaction monitoring market is specific and the buyer expects domain depth
• Track record of maintaining and extending a competitive product position through iterative improvement, not just launching new products
• Commercial credibility with enterprise compliance buyers: you have engaged directly with customers, understood their operational and regulatory challenges, and turned that into product decisions that drove revenue
• Strong understanding of AI/ML capabilities in a compliance context, sufficient to drive an AI-focused product roadmap and write requirements that Data Science and ML engineers can build from
• Demonstrable AI adoption in your own working practice: not "interested in AI" but already using it to work differently
• Experience operating within a structured product organisation where strategic direction was set above you, and delivering excellent outcomes within that framework

• Deep familiarity with the transaction monitoring competitive landscape and the major vendors
• Understanding of regulatory requirements across jurisdictions (4AMLD/5AMLD/6AMLD, FinCEN, FCA, MAS)
• Experience with AI-driven product capabilities in compliance: rules engines, anomaly detection, false positive reduction, risk scoring
• Experience managing a product through a period of rapid customer growth and market expansion

• Competitive salary aligned to your skills and experience 
• Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best 
• We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve 
• Annual learning budget to drive your performance and career development  
• Company Pension Scheme 
• Company Health Care Plan 
• Travel - season ticket loan 
• Cycle to work scheme with Evans Cycles

Our mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. 

By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, we help customers turn compliance into a catalyst for growth, operational resilience, and enduring regulatory trust.

More than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries rely on our end-to-end platform and the world’s most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, we help organizations automate up to 95% of KYC, AML, and sanctions reviews, cut onboarding times by 50%, reduce false positives by 70%, and handle 7x more work with the same staff.

ComplyAdvantage is headquartered in London and has global hubs in New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca. It is backed by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Learn more about compliance re-engineered for the age of AI at complyadvantage.com.