Compliance Project Manager

Our financial client is seeking a Compliance Project Manager for a long-term, hybrid contract position. The role will support technology initiatives across several core Compliance domains, including:

·         KYC / AML – Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, client due diligence, onboarding, monitoring, and related compliance processes and technology.

Surveillance – Technology supporting regulatory and compliance surveillance, monitoring, alerting, investigations, and associated workflows.

Electronic Communications & Archiving – Solutions supporting communications capture, retention, archiving, supervision, search, and regulatory requirements.

FINRA Registration & Licensing – Technology and processes supporting employee registration, licensing, regulatory filings, and related FINRA requirements. Primary Responsibilities

·         Own product vision, roadmap, backlog, and priorities for assigned Compliance technology solutions.

·         Partner with Compliance stakeholders to define business needs, requirements, product capabilities, and success measures.

·         Translate requirements into BRDs/FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and functional/technical specifications, ensuring traceability.

·         Lead product discovery and solution assessment, including build-vs.-buy analysis and MVP definition.

·         Develop and maintain integrated project plans, coordinating activities, milestones, dependencies, and delivery readiness.

·         Manage product and project priorities across business, architecture, governance, engineering, and other technology teams.

·         Maintain RAID logs, proactively identifying and escalating risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.

·         Lead project and working sessions, ensuring decisions, actions, and follow-ups are clearly documented and executed.

·         Provide concise status reporting and executive communications to senior business and technology stakeholders.

·         Drive UAT, release readiness, adoption, and continuous improvement based on stakeholder feedback and product performance.

·         Track KPIs, adoption, and business outcomes to measure product effectiveness and inform future enhancements.

Required Qualifications

·         5 years of experience as a Project Manager / Product Manager on complex, cross-functional initiatives

·         Experience managing complex Compliance products and Tech projects

·         Demonstrated hands-on ownership of standard project management artifacts and cadence

·         Experience stepping into in-flight or partially formed initiatives and stabilizing execution

·         Experience working alongside engineering [BC1] teams in a non-design capacity

·         Experience in financial services

·         Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent efforts

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·         Comfortable facing off with senior stakeholders

·         Ability to operate independently with minimal day-to-day direction