Product Manager - AML Screening

Innovative Systems; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

401K match

Volunteer time-off

Profit-sharing

Generous time-off

Job summary

Innovative Systems, a global leader in data management, AML compliance, and payment screening, seeks an AML Screening Product Manager to define and drive the product strategy. You will own the product lifecycle, partner with engineers and customers, and shape screening workflows for a global market.

You will influence how onboarding and payment screening are conducted, balancing regulatory requirements with product velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Product Management experience with 2–3 years in AML/sanctions/ KYC/financial crime solutions.
• Experience reducing false positives and improving screening effectiveness within AML/sanctions workflows.
• Strong understanding of AML regulations, sanctions programs (OFAC, UN, EU, UK HM Treasury), and PEP/adverse media screening.
• Experience defining product vision, roadmap strategy, and prioritization frameworks.
• Experience working with APIs, data integrations, and enterprise software platforms.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Owns the product lifecycle for AML Screening products, including discovery, roadmap, requirements, and release management.
• Work with partners to identify new data sources and integrations.
• Develop understanding of customer needs and industry trends to inform decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and revenue stakeholders to deliver enhancements and new features.
• Analyze screening data, user feedback, and metrics to identify optimization opportunities.
• Support go-to-market, onboarding, and enablement for new payment capabilities.
• Research competitors to inform revenue and product strategies.

Skills

AML knowledge

Product management

Stakeholder communication

Agile methodologies

Customer engagement

Analytical/problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

FinScan

APIs

SQL/BI tools

Job description

Innovative Systems, a worldwide leader of hi-tech data management, AML compliance, and Payment Screening solutions, is looking for a high-achieving detail-oriented AML Screening Product Manager (reporting to the Head of Product) who wants to be with an organization where they can make a REAL IMPACT! Innovative provides just the right mix of opportunities.

What’s the challenge?

An AML Screening Product Manager faces the ongoing challenge of balancing speed, accuracy, and compliance in an environment where regulatory expectations evolve faster than product release cycles. Delivering real-time decisioning while minimizing false-positive rates becomes a core tension for compliance teams, especially as organizations demand faster results, agentic reviews, and a seamless user experience. Ensuring the product remains technically resilient while integrating with diverse third-party data providers, and partner tools designed to enhance the scope of the results, adds operational and architectural complexity that must be managed on an ongoing basis.

How will I make an impact?

You’ll help define and advance Innovative’s customer sanctions, watchlist, and payment screening capabilities in the global market, partnering closely with customers, engineers, and industry experts. Your work will directly influence how Innovative’s customers conduct onboarding and payment screening, while supporting global requirements for a secure ecosystem.

This role is a great fit if you:

• Are driven by AML and its role in the world
• Enjoy solving complex, real-world problems
• Thrive at the crossroads of customer needs, technology, and regulation

This is not a "sit in meetings and write requirements" role. This is a chance to influence product direction, work directly with customers, and help ensure that complex screening flows are executed accurately, efficiently, and defensibly—at global scale. If you want your work to have real regulatory, operational, and customer impact, you’ll find the opportunity here.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns the product lifecycle for AML Screening products, including discovery, roadmap development, requirements definition, and release management
• Work with Partner Managers to identify new curated data sources and strategic partner integrations.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and industry trends to inform product decisions and strategic initiatives.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and revenue stakeholders to design and deliver enhancements and new functionality across the screening platform
• Analyze screening data, user feedback, and operational metrics to identify optimization opportunities.
• Support go-to-market planning, customer onboarding, and internal enablement for new payment capabilities.
• Research and understand capabilities of key competitors, their product focus, and serve as an internal expert of the competitive landscape for revenue and product teams.

What do I need to have to make an impact?

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 2-3 years supporting AML, sanctions, KYC, fraud, compliance, or financial crime solutions.

• Experience reducing false positives and improving screening effectiveness within AML/sanctions screening workflows.
• A strong understanding of the following:
• AML regulations and compliance frameworks
• OFAC, UN, EU, UK HMT, and other sanctions programs
• PEP (Politically Exposed Person) screening
• Adverse media screening
• Customer and payment screening workflows
• Strong business requirements writing experience, including taking complex customer requests and feedback and turning them into actionable requirements
• Familiarity with global financial crime compliance expectations across banking, fintech, payments, and financial services.
• Demonstrated experience defining product vision, roadmap strategy, and prioritization frameworks.
• Experience working with APIs, data integrations, and enterprise software platforms.
• Define and monitor key product KPIs including screening accuracy, false positive rates, throughput, latency, customer adoption, and operational efficiency.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments and managing product backlogs, user stories, and release cycles.
• Genuine enthusiasm for engaging with customers, uncovering needs, and translating insights into product improvements.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with an ability to interpret complex technical and regulatory requirements
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Infrequent travel may be required for customer visits and industry conferences, representing less than 5% of total work time.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

It’s a plus if you bring

• Screening technology experience with one or more of the following
• Name screening
• Transaction screening
• Watchlist screening
• Sanctions screening
• Understanding of one or more of the following
• Fuzzy matching algorithms
• False positive reduction techniques
• Entity resolution
• Identity matching
• Screening workflow optimization
• Experience using data and analytics to drive product decisions; familiarity with SQL, BI tools, or product analytics platforms preferred.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning applications in AML, screening optimization, or investigation workflows.
• Hands‑on experience using FinScan or similar AML/sanctions screening tools.
• Prior work experience in a regulated financial institution, including exposure to risk, legal, or audit processes.
• CAMS certification.

Location:

Based in our World Headquarters, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the ability to work a hybrid schedule of 2 days a week at the office. If not based in Pittsburgh, we would also consider remote work options for candidates living in the following areas: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington D.C.

What’s in it for you?

Consistently voted a Top Workplace, Innovative is thought and motion - listening to the ideas of our teams and our customers and acting to continually evolve our culture and our solutions. Innovative provides excellent benefits in support of your health, career, and financial well-being including generous time-off, tuition reimbursement, volunteer service time-off, charitable gift-matching, profit-sharing, and a 401K match.

Innovative’s teams are diverse, multi-cultural, and welcoming! You will find friends and mentors among local teammates and from those based at our offices abroad. You’ll always have someone to help you or to hang out with!

Innovative is one of the world’s most trusted providers of best-of-breed data quality and compliance solutions. Since 1968, we have been known for providing solutions that are fast, accurate, and scalable. FinScan, one of our most recognized products, is used by our clients in over 60 countries to identify potential money laundering (AML) and terrorist financing threats – helping to keep us all - a bit safer.

Innovative’s world headquarters is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our regional offices are in London, UK; Mexico City, Mexico; Dubai, UAE and São Paulo, Brazil.

Innovative is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Innovative does not accept unsolicited resumes.