Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Synctera as a Lead Product Manager for Risk and Compliance features, playing a crucial role in product development from vision to execution. Lead cross-functional teams to design, launch, and refine impactful features for banks and fintechs. The ideal candidate is a user-obsessed team player with 10+ years of B2B SaaS product management experience in banking and financial services, particularly in risk, compliance, and related areas. You will work closely with engineering, design, risk operations, and compliance to meet stakeholder needs. This role requires strong analytical, data-driven decision-making, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and significant growth potential within a fast-growing FinTech company.

Requirements

• 10+ years of solid Product Management experience bringing B2B SaaS products to market and seeing them through many iterations
• Experience working with banking and financial services, preferably in Risk, Compliance, KYC, KYB, sanctions screening, Fraud and AML monitoring
• AI/ML & Agentic Systems for Compliance: Led initiatives using machine learning models, LLM-powered assistants, and agentic automation to reduce false positives in fraud detection, accelerate KYC verification, and provide explainable compliance decisions to regulators and partners
• Strong analysis skills; you are superb at breaking down complicated problems into logical steps without getting bogged down by the details
• Strong data-driven approach in decision-making (via KPIs and metrics)
• Experienced in executing go-to-market strategies and launching new products
• Solid technical background; experience working on systems that process imperfect data
• Ability to design and navigate through conflicting priorities, turning ambiguity into clarity in a fast-changing environment
• Understand the methodology behind creating amazing user workflows
• Superb communication skills (we emphasize team collaboration); can convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn non-technical requirements into technical specifications
• Ability to think through problems and develop solutions quickly as a phenomenal problem solver
• Results-oriented; someone who knows how to get the job done regardless of circumstance
• Team player who loves to collaborate and bounce ideas off others; you understand that giving/receiving feedback is crucial in your development and growth

Responsibilities

• Think at a high level about product strategy and vision, and how we measure success
• Ensure that appropriate background research is done to explain the ‘Why’ behind each feature
• Document the ‘What’ clearly, keeping in mind all the internal and external user personas, and review with stakeholders across teams
• Understand the technical implementation by working directly with the engineering team–dig in and ask questions, and understand the full impact of technology changes
• Create visual designs and help them get it tested by putting them in front of users
• Ensure that the metrics to measure the success of each feature are clearly documented, instrumented, and measured after launch to see the impact
• Stay on top of customer feedback by monitoring feedback channels
• Own the final product, content, design, and communication that goes to customers
• Make executive decisions on the development team’s priorities to deliver projects with the highest impact

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of banking, payments, and related Risk & Compliance is preferred
• Ability to lead design workshops and a good eye for UI/UX design
• Knowledge of Vendor Evaluation, Due Diligence, and contracting is helpful
• Experience with U.S. banking regulations and banking processes
• Experience working within a startup environment

Benefits

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents
• Employer contribution to HSA for US employees
• Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents
• 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
• Mental health resources available for all employees
• Unlimited paid time off
• Generous paid new parent leave program
• Home office setup stipend
• Stock options program for all employees
• Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey
• Working alongside a skilled and passionate team