Position Overview

The Compliance Product Leader serves as ASI's authoritative voice on regulatory compliance across all product lines. This role owns the end-to-end compliance framework, partners cross-functionally with Product, Development, Go To Market, Customer Success, and Delivery teams, and acts as a liaison with regulators, outside counsel, and clients. The Compliance Product Leader ensures that every product release meets federal and state banking regulations while accelerating go-to-market timelines through a "compliance by design" approach.

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory Risk Oversight

• Own the end-to-end compliance framework for all product lines (core, digital banking, payments, analytics, etc.).
• Continuously perform and identify potential issues and conduct testing against federal and state banking regulations.

Cross-Functional Advisory

• Serve as the primary compliance advisor to Product, Development, Go To Market, Customer Success, and Delivery, ensuring a single, authoritative knowledge and interpretation of every applicable rule.
• Provide real-time guidance on design, data flows, reporting, and release readiness.

Product-Lifecycle Enablement

• Establish "compliance by design" checkpoints that accelerate go-to-market timelines and eliminate late-stage rework.
• Maintain and socialize a compliance requirements library and release-gate checklist used by all scrum teams.

Regulatory & Legal Liaison

• Act as point of contact with outside law firms, clients, and customer success associates.
• Train and instruct customer-facing colleagues on compliance requirements and best practices.
• Coordinate responses to supervisory exams, consent orders, and customer due-diligence questionnaires.

Customer & Market Advocacy

• Represent the company in industry working groups, conferences, and compliance forums to enhance thought leadership and competitive positioning.

Key Expectations

• Zero Material Findings: No critical or repeat deficiencies identified in regulatory exams or third-party audits.
• Alignment Across Teams: Ensure strong adherence to the centralized compliance requirements library, measured via quarterly sampling of product artifacts.
• Faster Releases: Documented reduction in compliance-related rework cycles and a measurable decrease in time-to-market for new modules.
• Efficient Legal Spend: Minimize annual outside-counsel fees for routine regulatory interpretation through standardized playbooks.
• Customer Confidence: Positive movement in Net Promoter Score and RFP win-rate attributable to perceived compliance robustness.

Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years in banking compliance with a focus on AML/KYC, GAAP-data, privacy, and cybersecurity, with a primary emphasis on fraud and regulatory reporting.
• Demonstrated track record leading multi-state or multi-jurisdictional compliance programs (e.g., FDIC, OCC, CFPB, FRB, and state banking departments).

Education & Credentials

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field; JD or advanced compliance certification preferred (e.g., CRCM, CCBCO).

Technical & Domain Skills

• Working knowledge of core banking systems, payments rails, and modern cloud architectures (API, microservices, data encryption, audit logging).
• Proficiency with GRC platforms and agile collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, etc.).

Soft Skills

• Influential communicator able to translate regulatory jargon into developer-ready requirements.
• Proactive, data-driven mindset with the ability to balance risk mitigation and business velocity, with a strong research orientation.
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills with regulators, attorneys, and executive stakeholders.