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Job Summary & Responsibilities Financial Crime Compliance ("FCC") coordinates Goldman Sachs' enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions, e-communications and anti-bribery compliance efforts. The combined FCC team, which is composed of professionals with extensive law enforcement, regulatory, legal, compliance, forensic consulting, operations and business experience, administers an array of surveillances, due diligence, investigative expertise and other control processes designed to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, securities fraud and other violations of law. The Financial Crime Compliance team is seeking a Senior Product Manager for a compliance role with experience in product ownership, management, product design, and Know Your Customer rules and regulations. This individual will work closely with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and engineering stakeholders to ensure our KYC products meet regulatory requirements and exceed customer expectations. This role requires a deep understanding of the KYC/AML landscape, regulatory frameworks, and the ability to drive product innovation in a highly regulated environment. They will lead the KYC Product Management and Change teams & serve as the firmwide product owner to develop and lead the product strategy for KYC compliance solutions, ensuring alignment with company goals and regulatory requirements; help to oversee the roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on regulatory changes, program priority and business needs and emerge capabilities (e.g., generative and agentic AI solutions); collaborate with senior leadership to shape the long-term vision for the KYC product portfolio. They will also coordinate drafting requirements, criteria for success, and acceptance criteria while working with change management teams to implement new system features. The ideal candidate will have 10 plus years of experience in product management, with at least 10 years in KYC/AML compliance, financial services, or highly regulated industries. Experience and success with AI, machine learning, and graph network solutions preferred. Principal Responsibilities: • Develop product strategy for KYC solutions • Collaborate with senior leadership across Compliance, Operations, Engineering, and the Business to execute on the strategic vision for KYC systems • Know regulatory and firm KYC requirements to ensure products are fully in compliance with global regulatory standards • Understand firm products and services, and divisional systems, to define and deliver system functionality • Write and refine product requirements in partnership with Operations and Engineering teams • Work with Change Management teams to appropriately plan and release new functionality • Ensure stakeholder awareness of new and existing KYC system functionality • Manage a team of Product Managers Basic Qualifications: • The role requires a degree (Bachelors/Masters) in a related field (Legal, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Product Management, Engineering, or related quantitative disciplines) • At least 10 years working experience in a product management role at a global, highly regulated financial institution • Firm understanding of Know Your Customer regulations, and preferably at least 10 years of experience working in a Know Your Customer role (Operations, Execution, Compliance, Legal) • Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLookups) and PowerPoint • Understanding of data structures and query languages such as SQL • Knowledge of Data Quality and Data Analysis methodologies • Ability to communicate Compliance requirements for consumption by Engineering and other cross functional partners • Experience using JIRA and writing business requirements • Effective written and verbal communication skills • Willingness to adapt in a fast-paced work environment; strong sense of urgency • Strong work ethic Preferred Qualifications: • Technical skills (Alteryx, SQL, R, Python, Tableau) • Awareness and experience working with AML trends and typologies • Experience building and enhancing existing processes (including via the use of AI, machine learning, and graph networks) • Experience in large scale system development ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers. We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: goldmansachs.com Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Salary Range The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $100000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end. Benefits Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

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Job Summary & Responsibilities
Develop product strategy for KYC solutions
Collaborate with senior leadership across Compliance, Operations, Engineering, and the Business to execute on the strategic vision for KYC systems
Know regulatory and firm KYC requirements to ensure products are fully in compliance with global regulatory standards
Understand firm products and services, and divisional systems, to define and deliver system functionality
Write and refine product requirements in partnership with Operations and Engineering teams
Work with Change Management teams to appropriately plan and release new functionality
Ensure stakeholder awareness of new and existing KYC system functionality
Manage a team of Product Managers
The role requires a degree (Bachelors/Masters) in a related field (Legal, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Product Management, Engineering, or related quantitative disciplines)
At least 10 years working experience in a product management role at a global, highly regulated financial institution
Firm understanding of Know Your Customer regulations, and preferably at least 10 years of experience working in a Know Your Customer role (Operations, Execution, Compliance, Legal)
Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLookups) and PowerPoint
Understanding of data structures and query languages such as SQL
Knowledge of Data Quality and Data Analysis methodologies
Ability to communicate Compliance requirements for consumption by Engineering and other cross functional partners
Experience using JIRA and writing business requirements
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Willingness to adapt in a fast-paced work environment; strong sense of urgency
Strong work ethic

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Technical skills (Alteryx, SQL, R, Python, Tableau)
Awareness and experience working with AML trends and typologies
Experience building and enhancing existing processes (including via the use of AI, machine learning, and graph networks)
Experience in large scale system development

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