Senior Product Owner

• Own and evolve product areas related to AML, transaction monitoring, and investigations, with a strong focus on enterprise banking use cases
• Translate regulatory requirements, investigative workflows, and customer needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and prioritised backlogs
• Act as the subject matter expert for AML regulations, transaction monitoring rules, and investigative processes, ensuring product decisions reflect real-world bank operations
• Work closely with engineering and data science teams on cutting-edge solutions, including rules-based systems, real-time AI detection, explainable AI, and GenAI-based investigative capabilities
• Drive product discovery and delivery end to end, from problem definition through rollout and iteration
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure investigative and analyst workflows are intuitive, efficient, and scalable
• Own the commercial aspects of your product areas, including business case development, pricing, packaging, and contribution to sales enablement materials
• Engage directly with customers (banks, financial institutions, consultancies) to gather feedback, validate solutions, and support product evolution
• Support pre-sales and post-sales activities where deep AML or product expertise is required (e.g. workshops, solution discussions, QBRs)
• Stay close to industry trends, regulatory developments, and competitive solutions to continuously improve Hawk’s product offering

• Senior-level experience in financial crime, with a strong focus on AML, ideally working directly with enterprise banks, financial institutions, or specialist consultancies
• Hands-on experience with transaction monitoring systems, AML rules, alerting, and investigative processes
• Strong understanding of regulatory environments, supervisory expectations, and how AML teams operate in practice
• Product mindset with experience acting as a Product Owner or in a product-adjacent role, translating complex domain problems into product solutions
• Technical proficiency and comfort working with AI-driven systems, including rules engines, ML models, real-time AI detection, GenAI-based investigative systems, and explainability / model governance concepts
• Proactive, autonomous communicator who takes ownership, pushes topics forward, and drives decisions
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, data science, design, sales, and customer teams
• Experience with direct competitors, internal bank compliance teams, or specialist financial crime consultancies is highly valued
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

German is a bonus

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