The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

KYC Platform Transformation Product Manager, Vice President/Senior Vice President, New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$100K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Legal, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or related field
  • 10+ years of product management experience at global, highly regulated financial institutions
  • 10+ years of expertise in KYC regulations and roles
  • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and data analysis methodologies
  • Experience with JIRA and drafting business requirements

Responsibilities

  • Develop KYC product strategy aligned with regulatory standards
  • Collaborate with leadership and diverse teams to execute compliance vision
  • Ensure KYC products meet global regulatory requirements
  • Define system functionality based on firm products and services
  • Draft and refine product requirements in collaboration with Operations and Engineering
  • Plan and release new KYC system functionalities with Change Management
  • Manage a team of Product Managers to achieve project goals

Benefits

  • Valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings
  • Comprehensive support for full-time and part-time employees
  • A strong overall employee experience focus
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Summary & Responsibilities

Financial Crime Compliance ("FCC") coordinates Goldman Sachs' enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions, e-communications and anti-bribery compliance efforts. The combined FCC team, which is composed of professionals with extensive law enforcement, regulatory, legal, compliance, forensic consulting, operations and business experience, administers an array of surveillances, due diligence, investigative expertise and other control processes designed to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, securities fraud and other violations of law.

The Financial Crime Compliance team is seeking a Senior Product Manager for a compliance role with experience in product ownership, management, product design, and Know Your Customer rules and regulations. This individual will work closely with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and engineering stakeholders to ensure our KYC products meet regulatory requirements and exceed customer expectations. This role requires a deep understanding of the KYC/AML landscape, regulatory frameworks, and the ability to drive product innovation in a highly regulated environment. They will lead the KYC Product Management and Change teams & serve as the firmwide product owner to develop and lead the product strategy for KYC compliance solutions, ensuring alignment with company goals and regulatory requirements; help to oversee the roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on regulatory changes, program priority and business needs and emerge capabilities (e.g., generative and agentic AI solutions); collaborate with senior leadership to shape the long-term vision for the KYC product portfolio. They will also coordinate drafting requirements, criteria for success, and acceptance criteria while working with change management teams to implement new system features.

The ideal candidate will have 10 plus years of experience in product management, with at least 10 years in KYC/AML compliance, financial services, or highly regulated industries. Experience and success with AI, machine learning, and graph network solutions preferred.

Principal Responsibilities:
  • Develop product strategy for KYC solutions
  • Collaborate with senior leadership across Compliance, Operations, Engineering, and the Business to execute on the strategic vision for KYC systems
  • Know regulatory and firm KYC requirements to ensure products are fully in compliance with global regulatory standards
  • Understand firm products and services, and divisional systems, to define and deliver system functionality
  • Write and refine product requirements in partnership with Operations and Engineering teams
  • Work with Change Management teams to appropriately plan and release new functionality
  • Ensure stakeholder awareness of new and existing KYC system functionality
  • Manage a team of Product Managers

Basic Qualifications:
  • The role requires a degree (Bachelors/Masters) in a related field (Legal, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Product Management, Engineering, or related quantitative disciplines)
  • At least 10 years working experience in a product management role at a global, highly regulated financial institution
  • Firm understanding of Know Your Customer regulations, and preferably at least 10 years of experience working in a Know Your Customer role (Operations, Execution, Compliance, Legal)
  • Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLookups) and PowerPoint
  • Understanding of data structures and query languages such as SQL
  • Knowledge of Data Quality and Data Analysis methodologies
  • Ability to communicate Compliance requirements for consumption by Engineering and other cross functional partners
  • Experience using JIRA and writing business requirements
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Willingness to adapt in a fast-paced work environment; strong sense of urgency
  • Strong work ethic

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Technical skills (Alteryx, SQL, R, Python, Tableau)
  • Awareness and experience working with AML trends and typologies
  • Experience building and enhancing existing processes (including via the use of AI, machine learning, and graph networks)
  • Experience in large scale system development

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $100000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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