What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead support @ IL / NJ / NY / CA position at Kaizen Technologies?
Title: Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead support
Location: Chicago, IL / San Francisco, CA / NYC, NY / Jesrsey City, NJ
- We are seeking a VP, Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead to support execution and governance of product due diligence and risk approval processes for new and enhanced product launches.
- The role is responsible for driving disciplined execution of approval workflows and ensuring closure of all pre-go-live conditions.
- The candidate will coordinate across Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Technology, and Operations teams to ensure launch readiness.
- This position involves tracking approvals, dependencies, action items, and closure evidence through structured governance processes.
- The role will manage working sessions, governance checkpoints, decision logs, RAID logs, and approval dashboards.
- The candidate will ensure due diligence documentation is complete, accurate, and review-ready as per process standards.
- A strong focus on pre-go-live condition tracking, evidence validation, and approval attestation management is essential.
- The individual will proactively identify risks, escalate blockers, and support timely decision-making.
- The role requires preparing executive-level status updates, escalation materials, and concise progress reporting.
- Candidates should have strong expertise in cross-functional program execution and governance management.
- Experience in product approval, launch readiness, and risk/control processes within regulated environments is highly preferred.
- Proficiency in project tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence is desirable.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational discipline are critical for success.
- Coordinate end-to-end due diligence and risk approval activities across cross-functional teams.
- Track and drive closure of pre-go-live conditions, approvals, evidence collection, and validations.
- Maintain governance artifacts including workplans, RAID logs, decision logs, and approval dashboards.
- Facilitate working sessions, status reviews, and escalation discussions with stakeholders.
- Prepare executive-level reporting on risks, conditions progress, milestones, and approvals.
- Product governance and risk approval workflow tools.
- Jira and Confluence, Risk, issue, and dependency tracking frameworks, Governance dashboard and reporting tools,
- Documentation and evidence management systems, Workflow/process management tools, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for reporting and executive updates, Compliance and control process management systems.