Senior Product Manager - Regtech

Referment is working with a financial compliance software business to hire a Senior Product Manager for its trade surveillance product. The product helps financial institutions identify potential market abuse within large volumes of trading activity, while reducing alerts that distract investigators from meaningful risks. You will own the direction and priorities of this product area, working directly with compliance users to understand how surveillance operates in practice. The challenge is to turn complex customer problems into decisions that improve the product, rather than treating every request as another roadmap commitment. This is a hands-on product role spanning discovery, prioritisation and delivery. You will work with engineers, data scientists, regulatory specialists and customer-facing colleagues, bringing their perspectives together without needing to be the deepest regulatory expert yourself. The Role

• Set the product roadmap and explain the choices behind it, balancing customer needs with commercial and technical considerations.
• Work with compliance and surveillance teams to understand their investigations, challenge assumptions and identify the problems worth solving.
• Translate those problems into clear priorities for engineering and data science, including better detection and fewer false positives.
• Use customer feedback and product evidence to assess whether changes are improving surveillance workflows.
• Partner with regulatory specialists and Customer Success so delivery reflects both compliance requirements and practical use.
• Consider how the product connects with the wider platform, avoiding decisions that solve one client's problem at the expense of the broader offering. What We're Looking For
• Experience owning a complex B2B software product or substantial product area, with responsibility for its direction and outcomes.
• A financial-services or RegTech background and the ability to develop a detailed understanding of unfamiliar compliance problems.
• Credibility with senior customers, including the confidence to challenge a request and explain a difficult prioritisation decision.
• Technical confidence around data and algorithms. You do not need to code, but should be able to question assumptions and understand engineering trade-offs. Direct trade-surveillance experience would be valuable, but is not essential. This could suit a product manager from another complex financial or regulatory workflow who enjoys working closely with specialist users. Applicants must already have UK work permission without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.