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 prioritisation 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

Bring an Outside-In Market Perspective

• Lead market analysis and competitive intelligence 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, prioritised based on customer and business value and validated with customers before development
• Act as a 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
• Ensure 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 continuously refine strategy and roadmap

Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team

• Lead and develop a team of ~6 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, respecting and adapting to various cultural norms and time zones to ensure seamless execution.

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 as a 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 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 Swift ecosystem and portfolio of solutions.
• Experience with SaaS and/or network-based products
• Familiarity with regulated and complex environments

Why Join Us

• Play a key role in shaping solutions that support the integrity of the global financial system
• Lead a critical product portfolio at the heart of Swift’s value proposition
• Work in a highly collaborative, international environment
• Influence real-world outcomes at global scale

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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