Principal Product Manager Anti-Money Laundering

Were looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Squad to make a meaningful dent in global financial crime.

Wise moves 145B annually across borders and customers love us for how easy and how cheap it is. You know who else loves moving money cheaply across borders Criminals looking to launder proceeds of crime.

This is where you come in. Our vision is clean money without borders. We have made great progress in developing a general crime catching machine learning model and now we need to dig deeper and get a whole lot more specific. Youll dive deep into criminal typologies become an expert in how international crime takes place and build advanced systems that catch hyper-targeted regional criminal behaviour.

About the team

The AML Squad works across our offices in London and Tallinn. We are growing the Squad and adding new teams to make faster progress in our fight against crime. Youll be joining one of the crossfunctional product teams in the squad. 

The AML Squad owns all anti-money laundering terrorism financing and human exploitation typologies and risks. This includes customer risk scoring live risk detection investigations and reporting to Financial Intelligence Units across the globe.

We measure success by two metrics: AML Recall and Cost of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR).

AML Recall measures how much of the crime we actually catch. We want this to be as high as possible and are rapidly expanding our coverage of hyper specific crime detection in addition to our already strong general model.

Cost of SAR measures how much it costs us to detect investigate and report a criminal to the relevant authorities. We want this to be as low as possible and are investing a lot in high precision automation including some cool stuff with LLMs.

 Youll own the challenge of

Setting new standards of preventing and live detecting hyper specific and regional crime at scale in a way that satisfies our regulatory obligations globally and works financially for our business.

Working with regional compliance officers (known in the industry as the second line of defense) to deliver global controls that have a strong reputation with local regulators and law enforcement.

Working with data scientists product analysts system and product designers and developers to ensure the team ship the best possible product.

This role will give you the opportunity to

Choose your own path to success - youll have the freedom to define the vision and the responsibility for making it happen

Be flexible in how and where you work we understand everyone needs a little something different so well do our best to make it happen

Travel to work with our teams in London and Tallinn as well as meet various partners and organisations globally when needed

Inspire teams with your ideas knowledge and self-starting attitude

Qualifications :

A bit about you: 

• You are a seasoned PM who has solved complex problems at a global scale. At the Principal PM level we expect at least 6 years of direct product management experience ideally closer to 10. 
• You are customer obsessed. You approach every problem from the eyes of the Anti-Money Laundering regulators and law enforcement are our customers. You need to demonstrate how you apply your user research and empathy skills to build in a way that will make these customers love Wise.
• You have direct experience in building machine learning LLM or other advanced algorithmic or data heavy products.
• You can use different data points both qualitative and quantitative to identify diagnose and prioritise problems and opportunities to solve them. 
• You are able to turn a vision into clear tangible building blocks of a roadmap and have a clear definition of done. 
• You have extensive experience of working in a cross-functional team of engineers designers analysts data scientists and researchers. 
• Youre hands on and youd do everything needed to make the team and the product successful. You get it done. 
• You are self driven you deal well with ambiguity and you can pave the way for things that have never been done before.

Additional Information :

Our Offer

Base salary: EUR  gross annually (based on experience level & interview outcomes)

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) & numerous amount of other benefits: compensation reviews

Generous stock options package

25 days holiday (plus the usual bank holidays and three me days)

Generous pension with enhanced company contributions

Mobile Wise - work remotely for a few months each year

Private medical cover

Loads more!

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what its like to work at Wise visit .

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what its like to work at Wise visit .

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time