Let's begin! Director Product Strategist Compliance & Third-Party Risk

At Moodys we unite the brightest minds to turn todays risks into tomorrows opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they arewith the freedom to exchange ideas think innovatively and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moodys is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment were advancing AI to move from insight to actionenabling 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 goalsdriving 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 Moodys 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:

Youll be part of Moodys Corporate & Government Business Unita 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 Moodys 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.

Moodys 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.

Candidates for Moodys Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moodys Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.