Product Manager II – Financial Crime Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the investigation-platform roadmap from start to finish.

• Sequence and defend the roadmap, adjusting it as necessary based on regulatory or risk priorities.

• Establish phased deliverables and acceptance criteria prior to the commencement of development.

• Develop intake processes linking Compliance policy, monitoring rules, and case management.

• Align policies and SOPs with investigator workflows and system functionalities.

• Assess whether requests necessitate process modifications or engineering efforts.

• Comprehend alert ingestion, profile and transaction resolution, suppression and grouping logic, as well as vendor-to-case-management reconciliation.

• Guarantee auditability through audit trails, data lineage, evidence retention, reviewer attribution, change-management controls, and validation of filtering/suppression.

• Integrate automation and AI into regulated investigative workflows, ensuring human-in-the-loop controls, explainability, and ongoing monitoring.

• Facilitate shared forums with Engineering teams and adjacent Product Managers.

• Provide regular updates to stakeholders and maintain a consistent view of delivery status.

• Initiate with Financial Intelligence Unit workflows and broaden the platform across Compliance Operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in product management.

• At least 2 years of experience working on financial-crime systems, such as transaction monitoring, investigations, case management, KYC/EDD, or sanctions screening.

• Familiarity with how an AML program is evaluated, including questions from regulators, internal audits, and model validations.

• Technical proficiency in data flows and system architecture.

• Proven record of delivering internal tools or operational platforms that significantly improved operations-team workflows.

• Ability to write clearly and concisely for PRDs, phase plans, audit reviews, and executive updates.

• The judgment to challenge unrealistic timelines while preserving stakeholder relationships.

• Applicants must indicate the city and country from which they will be working.

• Applicants are required to disclose if they need work sponsorship in their location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Participation in Kraken dogfooding is mandatory for all new employees.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.

• Consistent application of job-related skills or work-style assessments across all candidates.

• Consideration for qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.