Director - Product Strategist - Compliance & Third-Party Risk

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic Vision & Critical Thinking: Demonstrates the ability to synthesize complex market, regulatory, and customer insights into a clear long-term strategic direction, anticipating industry shifts and shaping forward-looking product strategies.
• Market & Customer Insight Expertise: Deep understanding of compliance and third-party risk ecosystems, evolving regulatory trends, and customer personas, with the ability to translate insights into compelling product differentiation and customer value.
• Cross Functional Leadership: Skilled at influencing and aligning product, engineering, sales, marketing, and analytics teams around shared goals—driving clarity, momentum, and accountability across the organisation.
• Exceptional Communication & Storytelling: Adept at framing problems, articulating vision, simplifying complexity, and inspiring internal and external audiences through strong narrative and data-backed communication.
• Advanced Analytical & Business Case Development Skills: Comfortable evaluating market opportunities, conducting competitive assessments, modelling business impact, and informing strategic investment decisions.
• Innovation Mindset: Constantly seeking new ideas, technologies, and data enabled opportunities, with the ability to lead proofs of concept and guide experimentation to validate emerging concepts.
• AI Fluency: Strong understanding of GenAI applications, data models, and AI-enabled enhancements, and how these tools elevate product capabilities, workflows, and customer experience.
• Stakeholder Relationship Building: Able to develop trusted partnerships across senior leadership and external stakeholders, navigating competing priorities while maintaining alignment and influencing outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Holds an undergraduate degree in a business-related field; an MBA or other graduate degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in strategy, product, and the compliance / KYC / third-party risk industry.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Market & Competitive Intelligence: Proactively analyse market trends, regulatory developments, customer needs, and competitor strategies to identify whitespace, risks, and long-term opportunities that guide strategic direction.
• Own the Product Vision & Roadmap: Define a clear, compelling vision for the Compliance/third-party risk product portfolio, translating customer problems into a prioritised roadmap focused on high-value outcomes and long-term growth.
• Shape Value Proposition & Positioning: Develop differentiated messaging, use case frameworks, and customer driven value propositions that reinforce Moody’s leadership across compliance and risk management workflows.
• Drive Strategic Investment Decisions: Build business cases with financial modelling, customer insight, and competitive analysis to support product investments, build/buy/partner decisions, and resource allocation.
• Guide Go-to-Market Strategy: Partner with commercial teams to refine pricing, ideal customer profiles, market segmentation, and launch strategies, ensuring the product narrative resonates and drives adoption.
• Lead Innovation & Discovery Initiatives: Drive exploratory workstreams, experiments, and proofs of concept, particularly around AI-driven features and emerging compliance challenges, validating new opportunities before scaling.
• Partner for Execution & Portfolio Clarity: Collaborate closely with product management and engineering to ensure customer problems are well-defined, requirements are clear, and the product portfolio remains cohesive and scalable.
• Monitor Performance & Inform Future Strategy: Define key performance indicators, track commercial and user outcomes, and use insights to refine direction, enhance product effectiveness, and identify next stage growth levers.

About the Team:

You’ll be part of Moody’s Corporate & Government Business Unit—a team that drives growth and innovation by delivering powerful data, AI, and SaaS solutions tailored to the needs of corporates and governments. The group blends the agility and creativity of a startup with the global reach and stability of Moody’s, offering dynamic career pathways, global mobility, and access to deep technical expertise. This team is mission driven, collaborative, and committed to helping organisations navigate complexity, manage risk, and achieve strategic growth in a rapidly evolving world.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.