Head of FCC Product Management

Key Responsibilities

• Shape Product Strategy at Portfolio Level
  • Define and evolve the FCC product portfolio strategy, aligned with Swift's overall strategy and market positioning.
  • Drive prioritization and investment decisions across products, balancing growth, regulatory, and customer needs.
  • Identify new opportunities, gaps, and innovation areas within the financial crime compliance space.
  • Ensure a clear and differentiated value proposition across the portfolio.
• Lead market analysis and competitive intelligence
  • Bring an outside in market perspective to anticipate industry trends and regulatory developments.
  • Translate insights into clear strategic recommendations and actionable product decisions.
  • Ensure all product initiatives are grounded in real customer needs and market opportunities.
• Drive Customer Centric Product Definition
  • Establish strong customer engagement and validation practices across the team.
  • Ensure product requirements are clearly defined, prioritized based on customer and business value, and validated with customers before development.
  • Act as the voice of the customer at portfolio level.
• Own the Product Roadmap
  • Lead the definition of an integrated product roadmap across FCC solutions.
  • Translate strategy into clear product priorities and high level requirements and initiatives.
  • Work closely with product delivery teams to align on scope, sequencing, and outcomes, ensuring coherence and alignment across multiple squads.
• Drive Go To Market and Product Adoption
  • Define and support go to market strategies to drive adoption and usage.
  • Partner with commercial and marketing teams on value messaging, target segmentation, and use cases.
  • Monitor product performance (usage, adoption, feedback) and continually refine strategy and roadmap.
• Lead and Develop a High Performing Team
  • Lead and develop a team of approximately six product managers.
  • Foster a strong product management culture, including strategic thinking, customer centricity, and data driven decision making.
  • Set clear priorities, expectations, and development paths for the team.
  • Communicate and collaborate effectively with a diverse, globally distributed team across cultural norms and time zones.
• Drive Cross Functional Alignment
  • Act as a key connector between customers, product management, delivery teams, and business development.
  • Align stakeholders around product priorities, trade offs, and roadmap decisions.
  • Influence senior stakeholders and contribute to portfolio level decision making.

What You Bring Experience

• Held senior positions in financial crime compliance as a practitioner and/or service provider.
• Strong experience in product management within complex, multi product environments.
• Proven track record of defining and executing on product strategy at portfolio level.
• Demonstrated ability to work across strategy, customer engagement, and go to market.
• Experience leading and developing product management teams.

Skills

• Strong strategic and analytical thinking.
• Proactive problem solver focused on delivering practical, scalable solutions.
• Deep customer focus and FCC market awareness.
• Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders.
• Ability to operate proactively and autonomously within a multi team environment.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, internal and external.
• Structured, outcome driven mindset.
• Exposure to the Swift ecosystem and portfolio of solutions.
• Experience with SaaS and/or network based products.
• Familiarity with regulated and complex environments.