Senior Director, Product Management - Platform Governance and Compliance

Accountabilities: Own and continuously evolve the platform governance product strategy across three core pillars: Governance, Control, and Administration, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and the evolving regulatory landscape. Drive governance strategy with particular emphasis on financial services requirements, including banking, lending, credit decisioning, and consumer finance environments. Champion a comprehensive controls model focused on preventing risks, making informed control decisions, and continuously validating that controls remain effective. Promote enterprise-wide adoption of governance standards and practices across platform services and senior leadership stakeholders. Serve as the primary strategic liaison for C-suite executives, legal teams, and risk stakeholders, facilitating productive governance discussions while keeping product release schedules on track. Represent governance and compliance capabilities in strategic customer engagements, vendor risk assessments, and executive-level security questionnaires. Establish and oversee risk-adjusted prioritization frameworks, such as RICE or WSJF, balancing commercial opportunities against compliance requirements and regulatory exposure. Make final strategic trade-off decisions regarding product investments, regulatory obligations, and risk management priorities. Lead, mentor, and develop the Platform Governance and Compliance team, setting priorities and ensuring high-quality execution across product requirements documents, epics, and audit-readiness initiatives. Apply practical knowledge of financial services regulations and requirements, including GLBA and model risk management practices, to guide platform strategy. Engage directly with regulators and auditors when required, representing the organization's governance approach and compliance capabilities. Define and monitor platform-level KPIs measuring governance, control, and administration effectiveness. Communicate governance performance, strategic progress, and key risks to executive leadership. Requirements: Extensive experience in platform product management, governance, or compliance leadership, with substantial expertise in financial services such as banking, lending, credit decisioning, or consumer finance. Demonstrated success developing and implementing governance strategies within financial services or other highly regulated industries. Additional experience in enterprise SaaS, security, cloud infrastructure, HealthTech, GovTech, or comparable regulated sectors is an advantage. Established professional credibility within the governance, compliance, or financial regulatory community, demonstrated through public speaking, published thought leadership, participation in regulatory or industry boards, or previous senior regulatory or executive positions. Strong executive presence and proven ability to represent governance strategy and complex regulatory topics to C-suite leaders, boards, customers, and external stakeholders. Solid understanding of identity and security architecture, including role-based and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and encryption standards. Ability to set technical direction and evaluate the quality of security and governance work, while collaborating with technical leaders responsible for day-to-day execution. Extensive experience building, managing, or mentoring product management teams and guiding strategic product delivery. Strong understanding of financial services regulatory requirements, including GLBA and model risk management practices. Relevant professional certifications, such as CISSP, CIPP, or CRCM, are considered an advantage but are not mandatory. Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline; an advanced degree or relevant professional certifications are strongly preferred. Excellent strategic judgment, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance business priorities and regulatory responsibilities. Benefits: Target annual base salary ranging from $164,500 to $258,500 USD. Final compensation determined by the candidate's knowledge, skills, experience, and qualifications. Competitive compensation, benefits, and employee rewards programs. Inclusive, people-first workplace culture built around ownership, customer satisfaction, and mutual respect. Opportunities to make a meaningful impact and develop professionally through learning and development experiences. Work-life balance supported by an engaging and collaborative work environment. Employee resource groups and social events that encourage connection, inclusion, and team camaraderie. Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.