Ripjar is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking product leader to join their leadership team as the VP, Product with a specialised focus on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crime (FinCrime) compliance. The role will own the vision, strategy, and execution of their AI-driven risk intelligence product suite, ensuring industry-leading offerings remain compliant and positioned for aggressive global growth.
Requirements
- Product Strategy, Vision & Leadership
- Executive Strategy: Set and drive the overall product strategy, vision, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives and long-term business strategy.
- Voice of the customer: Ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in our internal and external communication as well as at the Executive Leadership Team meetings and discussions.
- Commercial Ownership: Partner closely with Sales and Marketing on the Go-to-Market strategy, taking substantial input on product packaging, messaging, pricing, and partnerships to maximize market impact and P&L performance.
- Scale and Execution: Implement robust, modern agile product development processes.
- AML/FinCrime Domain Expertise
- Domain Expertise: Advise executive leadership on global regulations, typologies, sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, and risk-based compliance frameworks within the AML/FinCrime sector.
- Regulatory Translation: Translate evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., 6AMLD, AMLA, FATF updates) into actionable product enhancements and future product vision, ensuring our solutions maintain absolute compliance, are visionary and market leading in terms of both performance and features.
- Team Building & Organisational Scaling
- Function Leadership: Build out and scale the Product Management and User Experience (UX) functions to meet global business needs.
- Talent Management: Attract, recruit, retain, coach, and develop top-tier product management and design talent, embedding requisite domain expertise within the teams. Foster a collaborative, product-led culture that encourages experimentation and rapid feedback.
- External Leadership & Commercial Support
- Trusted Advisor: Act as a trusted external advisor in high-stakes client engagements, workshops, and proof-of-concept projects, leveraging deep domain credibility to secure new deals and major renewals.
- Thought Leadership: Partner with marketing team by contributing to high impact thought leadership content (white papers, blogs) and chairing client roundtables and presenting at major industry events.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary DOE
- 25 days annual leave + birthdays off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service & Christmas shutdown.
- Fully remote working
- 35 hour working week
- Flexible working hours.
- Private Family Healthcare
- Life Assurance
- Pension salary sacrifice
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Company contributions to your pension
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro
- A well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks when in the office
