Principal Product Manager - Payment Screening

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.

• 8+ years in product management, with at least 3 years in senior IC roles owning complex B2B SaaS products in financial services, payments or adjacent regulated industries
• Direct experience with payment screening, sanctions screening, transaction filtering or closely related compliance products. This is a domain hire: the screening market is specific and competitive, and we need someone who understands how it works
• Proven ability to take a product from its initial release through rapid iteration to market competitiveness, managing competing demands from commercial, engineering and customers simultaneously
• Experience managing customer migrations between platform generations without losing customers or trust
• Commercial credibility with enterprise compliance buyers: you have engaged directly with customers, understood their screening requirements, and turned that into product decisions that drove revenue
• Strong technical understanding of real-time screening, matching logic, list management and API integration, sufficient to write requirements engineering 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

• Experience with sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening products specifically, including familiarity with the major vendors and competitive dynamics
• Understanding of the regulatory context for payment screening (OFAC, EU sanctions regulations, UK sanctions regime, SWIFT messaging standards)
• Experience managing legacy-to-modern platform migrations for enterprise customers, including the commercial and relationship management dimensions
• Comfortable in a distributed team environment across multiple locations

• 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.