Product Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance

About Anchorage Digital

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.

The Role: Product Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance

As a Product Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance, you will define strategy, roadmap, and requirements to prevent money laundering, fraud, and illicit financing. You will manage the entire product development lifecycle to ensure regulatory compliance (AML/KYC/Sanctions) while balancing customer experience and risk mitigation. You will analyze regulations, develop appropriate controls, and oversee performance metrics for compliance systems.

Factors of Growth & Impact

Technical Skills

• Own the detailed prioritization of your product’s roadmap, balancing new feature development and technical debt.
• Demonstrate deep strategic thinking in shaping the product roadmap, considering market trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs to drive long-term product success.
• Deliver complex, cross-functional projects with multiple dependencies, demonstrating strong product management skills and ability to drive swift execution while maintaining quality.
• Drive comprehensive go-to-market strategy and execution, including defining success metrics, tracking key performance indicators, and iterating based on data-driven insights.
• Work closely with your engineering and design counterparts to drive product development processes and planning.
• Ability to understand system architecture, and communicate clear requirements to engineering.

Complexity and Impact of Work

• Lead and influence cross-functional teams while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across the organization.
• Exercise independent decision-making and take full ownership of product strategy and execution.
• Contribute strategic insights that significantly impact company direction and product roadmap.
• Demonstrate product leadership that elevates team performance and effectiveness.

Organizational Knowledge

• Develop deep understanding of Anchorage's business model, organizational structure, and strategic priorities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across departments to ensure effective collaboration.
• Navigate and improve organizational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Contribute to organizational strategy through product expertise and market insights.
• Drive company objectives through strategic product decisions and initiatives.
• Actively contribute to organizational knowledge sharing and collective understanding.

Communication and Influence

• Effectively influence and motivate others through respectful engagement, aligning teams with broader organizational goals.
• Enable cross-functional collaboration through clear, consistent communication and strategic influence on decision-making at every level of the organization.
• Act as a thoughtful knowledge partner to senior leadership, helping improve organizational dynamics through empathetic understanding.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have 5+ years of relevant product management experience.
• Have proven experience in developing compliance systems within FinCrime, AML, KYC, fraud, at a regulated retail financial services/exchange.
• Have a deep understanding of financial crime regulations (AML/KYC/Sanctions) and compliance frameworks.
• Can leverage your empathy and adaptability to not only complement others’ working styles but also to embody our culture of curiosity, creativity, and shared understanding.
• Have experience driving and managing complex projects across multiple teams, demonstrating exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Are deeply invested in optimizing the end-user experience and leveraging it to create business value.
• Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, adept at conveying complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including both internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if you have:

• Written your own smart contract or dApp.
• Built 0 to 1 products for financial institutions either as a PM or a developer.
• Seen and were emotionally moved by the musical Hamilton :)

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC)
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
• Know Your Customer (KYC)
• Sanctions Compliance
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Mitigation
• Product Roadmap Development
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Digital Assets Expertise