Senior Director, Product Management - Platform Governance and Compliance

The Senior Director will define and lead the governance, risk, and compliance strategy for an enterprise platform operating in highly regulated environments. This executive-level role combines product vision, regulatory expertise, and strategic leadership to strengthen governance, access controls, administration, and auditability across enterprise deployments. You will guide the evolution of platform governance capabilities while ensuring alignment with customer expectations, business objectives, and changing financial services regulations. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, customers, auditors, and regulators, you will help translate complex compliance requirements into scalable product strategies. You will also lead and develop a specialized product team, establish measurable governance outcomes, and make critical prioritization decisions balancing commercial growth with regulatory risk. This is an opportunity to shape platform-wide standards and influence security and compliance practices at an organizational level.

• Extensive experience in platform product management, governance, or compliance leadership, with substantial expertise in financial services such as banking, lending, credit decisioning, or consumer finance.

• Demonstrated success developing and implementing governance strategies within financial services or other highly regulated industries.

• Additional experience in enterprise SaaS, security, cloud infrastructure, HealthTech, GovTech, or comparable regulated sectors is an advantage.

• Established professional credibility within the governance, compliance, or financial regulatory community, demonstrated through public speaking, published thought leadership, participation in regulatory or industry boards, or previous senior regulatory or executive positions.

• Strong executive presence and proven ability to represent governance strategy and complex regulatory topics to C-suite leaders, boards, customers, and external stakeholders.

• Solid understanding of identity and security architecture, including role-based and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and encryption standards.

• Ability to set technical direction and evaluate the quality of security and governance work, while collaborating with technical leaders responsible for day-to-day execution.

• Extensive experience building, managing, or mentoring product management teams and guiding strategic product delivery.

• Strong understanding of financial services regulatory requirements, including GLBA and model risk management practices.

• Relevant professional certifications, such as CISSP, CIPP, or CRCM, are considered an advantage but are not mandatory.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline; an advanced degree or relevant professional certifications are strongly preferred.

• Excellent strategic judgment, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance business priorities and regulatory responsibilities.