Principal Product Manager - Transaction Monitoring

The Role 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. What You Will Do Own transaction monitoring 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. Transaction monitoring is a competitive market with established vendors. ComplyAdvantage's advantage is the combination of proprietary data, AI-driven detection and a modern platform. Your job is to extend that advantage through product decisions that create measurable differentiation. Keep the product competitive and evolving. The product is in market and growing. The challenge is not getting to launch; it is maintaining and extending a product lead through continuous improvement. This means understanding where the market is moving (AI-driven rules, real-time detection, reduced false positives, better analyst experience), prioritising the features that create the most competitive distance, and iterating rapidly on customer feedback. You need to be as rigorous about what not to build as about what to build. Understand the transaction monitoring domain. This is a domain hire. You need to understand how transaction monitoring works in practice: rule configuration, threshold management, alert generation, investigation workflows, SAR filing, regulatory expectations (including 4AMLD/5AMLD/6AMLD, FinCEN requirements, FCA guidance). You need to be credible with compliance buyers who live in this world every day and who will test your knowledge quickly. Drive A ... (truncated, view full listing at source)