Principal Product Manager - Payment Screening

The Role We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to own the Payment Screening 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. Payment screening is a core compliance capability: financial and other institutions are required to screen payments for regulatory and compliance risk in real time before processing. The market is mature, the requirements are well understood, and the competitive landscape is established. ComplyAdvantage has an existing customer base for screening and has recently released a new version of its payment screening product, running on its highly scalable, resilient and AI-native Mesh platform. The PPM will likely pick up this latest version just as it hits the market, with pent-up demand for additional features from the commercial organisation and a migration path to manage for customers currently on the legacy screening platform. This is a growth and scaling role, not a greenfield build. A modern and highly capable version of the product is already out. The job is to figure out what comes next: which features unlock the most commercial value, how to manage the migration of existing screening customers onto the new platform, and how to make the product competitive against established vendors while demand from the field is immediate and specific. If you have experience taking a product from its first release through rapid iteration into a market-competitive position, this role will make sense to you. 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 the level of investment required 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. What You Will Do Own payment screening as a product area with a GM mindset. Understand the competitive landscape, know the buyer, and be accountable for whether the product is working commercially. Payment screening is a capability that every compliance platform must offer; the competitive differentiation comes from accuracy, speed, integration quality and the ability to reduce false positives using ComplyAdvantage's proprietary data. Your job is to ensure the product is competitive on all of these dimensions. Plot the path from first release to market leadership. A modern, highly capable version of the product is in market. The immediate challenge is threefold: determine which features unlock the most commercial value and build them fast, manage the migration of existing customers from the legacy screening platform onto Mesh, and handle the pent-up demand from the commercial organisation without making commitments you cannot keep. You need to balance rapid iteration against sustainable engineering quality, and short-term commercial pressure against the medium-term product roadmap. Understand the screening domain. Payment screening in regulated financial services has specific requirements: real-time decisioning at transaction speed ... (truncated, view full listing at source)