Product Manager - RegTech

Fintel Services; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm based in the UK is looking for a Product Manager to lead their compliance product initiatives. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in SaaS or digital product environments and a knack for simplifying complex challenges. This role involves shaping product vision and strategy in AI-driven compliance solutions while collaborating with diverse teams. The position allows for remote work with occasional office visits in Manchester.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SaaS or digital product experience.
• Experience in complex organizations with a positive approach.
• Ability to develop product initiatives based on customer insights.
• Deep understanding of customer research and UX best practices.
• Ability to simplify regulatory and business complexity.
• High-level understanding of generative AI and LLM integration.

Responsibilities

• Shape and drive compliance products in the age of AI.
• Create and own the product vision and strategy.
• Work with developers to design innovative solutions.
• Manage product backlog reflecting stakeholder priorities.

Skills

SaaS / digital product experience

Delivering in complex environments

Customer-centric product development

Understanding of customer research

Entrepreneurial mindset

Knowledge of AI integration

Job description

At Fintel Services, we empower financial professionals with trusted tools, insights and support to shape the future of financial advice.

Fintel Services is a group of market-leading companies within Fintel PLC, with annual revenues exceeding £50m.

We are seeking a product manager who has led product initiatives to deliver at pace, in multiple environments and who is especially good at distilling complexity into simplicity.

You’ll be particularly interested in building software solutions that can leverage and enhance human expertise and value in the age of AI.

About Fintel Services

Fintel Services is a division of Fintel PLC and comprises a number of leading brands and divisions. We serve a large number of advice firms across the UK, helping them deliver better consumer outcomes. In addition, we hold relationships with numerous product providers and deliver hundreds of events a year.

Our business consists of:

• Compliance services: threesixty services, simplybiz and Compliance First.
• Distribution: Omnicore and Omni Protect.
• Mortgages: Simplybiz Mortgages, Gateway Surveying and FIBA.
• Financial services events: Owen James.

Our Software and Data division, comprises a number of leading advice technology businesses such as Defaqto, VouchedFor, Synaptic, and Competent Adviser. Together we serve over 10,000 financial advisers to help them grow their business, manage risk, and advise their clients.

Role overview

Fintel Services is a business based around human value - our consultants’ regulatory expertise is unrivalled. Our Software and Data division brings some of the best financial advice technology minds together to build powerful solutions that can transform how advice businesses operate and ultimately drive better outcomes for end consumers.

This role is a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of brilliant human compliance expertise and deep advice technology understanding, to define and design leading compliance tech solutions.

In this role you will deliver a more holistic understanding of what great regulatory services look like, an ability to connect and integrate solutions, and a deep understanding of the full range of needs an advice business has.

This role reports in to the Product Operations Manager and will work closely with the Fintel Services Technology Director.

Role responsibilities

• Shape and drive forward our compliance products offering in the age of AI.
• Create and own the product vision and strategy behind how we deliver the compliance services of the future.
• Work with a squad of developers to design and develop innovative solutions.
• Work with leadership and stakeholders across the whole Fintel group to understand their goals and priorities and manage the product backlog to reflect that.

What you'll need to succeed

• 5+ years SaaS / digital product experience.
• Evidence of being able to deliver at pace within complex or matrix-managed organisations, bringing a positive approach and finding creative solutions to remove blockers.
• Evidence of developing product initiatives in a truly customer-centric way; ability to distil customer insights and business needs into a compelling product strategy.
• A deep understanding of customer research and UX best practices.
• Evidence of being able to distil regulatory and business complexity into simple and impactful solutions.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• A high-level understanding of generative AI, AI agents and LLM integration within software application.

Location

The team works remotely so there is no expectation to spend defined time in the office. However, it would be useful if you can get to the office from time to time to meet stakeholders and get to know the business. Our offices are in Wythenshawe, south Manchester and Huddersfield.

Right to work

Applicants must already hold a legal right to work in the UK without time restrictions. We are currently unable to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.

Fintel plc and all the businesses within it adopt a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination on any of the protected grounds in the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.

For these reasons we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.