About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to build how we detect and prevent fraud and money laundering as we expand into new financial products and markets. You will own the roadmap for fraud prevention and transaction monitoring, which encompasses the rules, models, and systems that flag risky activity, as well as the tools teams use to review it. You will use AI to automate the clearing of routine alerts, enabling the team to focus on complex cases that require human intervention. This role involves close collaboration with Compliance, Operations, Data, Engineering, and the Financial Investigation Unit. As this is a new capability, you will have the opportunity to shape it from the ground up and eventually build the team that operates it.
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Responsibilities
- Own and prioritize the product roadmap for fraud prevention and transaction monitoring within the agreed financial crime strategy.
- Translate fraud threats, money-laundering risk scenarios, and control requirements into clear product requirements, detection logic, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead the development of rules, models, and preventive controls in collaboration with Engineering, Data, Operations, and Compliance, applying AI and machine learning where they demonstrably improve detection, prevention, and case handling.
- Establish reliable, timely data inputs for detection and identify gaps in data quality, availability, or coverage, prioritizing their resolution.
- Evaluate proposed controls using historical data and realistic test scenarios while assessing detection coverage, missed activity, false positives, and the impact on legitimate customers.
- Deliver changes through the agreed approval process with clear testing, staged rollout, monitoring, and rollback plans.
- Measure performance post-release, including fraud losses, detection effectiveness, and customer friction, using findings to enhance controls without assuming that fewer alerts equal success.
- Adapt fraud prevention and transaction monitoring capabilities to address emerging threats, new products, markets, and transaction types, making readiness requirements and unresolved coverage gaps clear before launch.
- Coordinate delivery across product teams and control owners, clarifying priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs while escalating decisions needing accountable leadership.
Requirements
- 5+ years in product ownership or product management with end-to-end ownership of a product roadmap at a senior level.
- Strong financial crime experience covering both fraud and money laundering, gained in fintech, banking, payments, or another regulated business.
- Hands-on experience in building detection capabilities such as rules, models, or transaction monitoring systems.
- Experience using AI or automation to reduce manual alert review while maintaining human oversight on complex cases.
- Strong data skills with a good understanding of data origins and reliability, and the ability to evaluate detection using historical data, coverage, and false-positive analysis.
- Experience releasing changes to live controls safely, with testing, staged rollout, monitoring, and rollback processes.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including collaboration with Compliance and control owners throughout approval processes.
- Desirable: experience in building or growing a product team.
What You Will Get in Return
- Competitive Salary: A salary that values your skills and talents.
- Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about work-life balance.
- Generous Time Off: Recharge with an annual leave policy that supports your life outside of work.
- Employee Referral Program: Bring talented friends on board and receive rewards for doing so.
- Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: Medical insurance, pension plans, and location-specific benefits.
- Workation Wonderland: Enjoy 30 additional days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply).
- Volunteer Days: Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.
Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity.
