Principal Product Manager - Payment Screening

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, sanctions list coverage and currency, configurable matching logic, audit trails, regulatory defensibility, and integration with payment rails and core banking systems. You need enough domain depth to engage credibly with compliance buyers and to write requirements that reflect how screening actually works in production at scale.

Work directly with customers and prospects. You will be the product voice in payment screening conversations with the field, working with Solutions Consulting, Customer Success and Sales. Screening is a competitive market and buyers compare closely. You are expected to engage with enterprise compliance teams on their terms, understand their evaluation criteria, and ensure the product can win against established competitors. You will also be the product lead on migration conversations with existing screening customers moving from the legacy platform. Customer-facing commitments with dates require CPTO sign-off.

Drive requirements through a clear planning process. We work in six-week blocks. The document flow runs Plan of Record to PRD to product requirements to implementation, with quality gates at each stage. You will own PRDs for payment screening capabilities and draft requirements using AI-assisted workflows, refining them jointly with your EM.

Manage cross-tribe dependencies. Payment screening depends on capabilities in our Data tribe (sanctions data, PEP data, entity resolution, matching algorithms) and Platform tribe (real-time processing, API surface). Requirements originating in your product area cascade to those tribes as derived requirements through the formal planning process. You need enough technical understanding to write requirements that are realistic and to engage constructively with engineering in those tribes.

Use AI in your own work. We expect PPMs to use AI-assisted workflows for requirements generation, competitive analysis and document production. This is how we work, not something we aspire to.

What We Are Looking For

• 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.
• 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.
• Strong technical understanding of real-time screening, matching logic, list management and API integration.
• Demonstrable AI adoption in your own working practice.
• Experience operating within a structured product organisation.

Preferred:

• Experience with sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening products.
• Understanding of the regulatory context for payment screening.
• Experience managing legacy-to-modern platform migrations for enterprise customers.
• Comfortable in a distributed team environment across multiple locations.

What Success Looks Like

• At 60 days: You understand the payment screening product, the competitive landscape, the customer requirements, the current state of the Mesh release, the migration backlog and how the operating model works.
• At 4 months: The product is iterating. Priority features identified from commercial demand are in development or released.
• At 8 months: Payment screening on Mesh is the primary platform for new and migrating customers.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary aligned to your skills and experience.
• Unlimited Time Off Policy.
• Hybrid approach requiring employees to be in the office for two days a week.
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects.
• 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.

About us: 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.