Principal Product Manager - Anti-Money Laundering

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Join Wise as Principal Product Manager - Anti-Money Laundering and make a meaningful impact in fighting global financial crime. Wise processes over £145B in annual cross-border volume, and criminals exploit our efficient systems—your role is to build cutting-edge detection mechanisms using machine learning, LLMs, and advanced tech to catch hyper-specific, regional threats in real-time. Partner with global regulators and law enforcement across 65+ licenses and 160+ countries to ensure clean money flows without borders, while optimizing AML Recall and minimizing Cost of Suspicious Activity Reports through precision automation. You'll lead a cross-functional team in the AML Squad, based in Tallinn (Global role), owning customer risk scoring, live detection, investigations, and reporting. With full autonomy in a product-led company, report to Susana, collaborate with Kaarel, and learn from Nilan—experienced leaders invested in your growth. Enjoy the love for Wise's beloved products (NPS 65+), flexible work, and the chance to travel to London, Tallinn, and beyond. We're seeking a Principal PM with 6-10+ years experience, obsessed with 'customer' needs of regulators, skilled in ML/LLM products, and adept at data-driven prioritization. If you're ready to define the vision and deliver results against sophisticated crime, apply now.

Key Responsibilities

• Set new standards for preventing and live detecting hyper-specific and regional crime at scale
• Satisfy global regulatory obligations while ensuring financial viability for the business
• Collaborate with regional compliance officers to deliver globally respected controls
• Work with data scientists, product analysts, designers, and developers to ship optimal products
• Dive deep into criminal typologies to build advanced detection systems
• Own vision and execution with full autonomy and responsibility
• Travel to London, Tallinn, and global partners as needed
• Drive improvements in AML Recall and Cost of SAR metrics

Required Qualifications

• Seasoned PM with at least 6 years of direct product management experience, ideally closer to 10
• Customer obsessed, approaching problems from the perspective of regulators and law enforcement as 'customers'
• Direct experience building machine learning, LLM, or other advanced algorithmic/data-heavy products
• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to identify, diagnose, and prioritise problems and opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience solving complex problems at global scale
• Expertise in criminal typologies and international crime detection
• Background in financial services or regulatory compliance

Required Skills

• Product management
• Machine learning and LLM integration
• Data analysis (qualitative and quantitative)
• User research and empathy for regulators/law enforcement
• Criminal typology expertise
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Global regulatory compliance
• Problem prioritization and diagnosis
• Autonomous vision setting and execution
• Stakeholder collaboration with compliance and law enforcement

Benefits

• RSUs (stock options)
• Flexible working
• Parental leave
• Learning budget
• Paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Health insurance
• Company retreat
• Wise card

Wise is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce.