Product Manager (Compliance & Payments)

Kleos is a global teams management platform — hiring, contracts, compliance, and payments handled in 242 countries. We’re 35+ people, distributed across cities, building for distributed teams. 

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

We are seeking a Product Manager (Compliance & Payments) to lead product initiatives that ensure regulatory compliance and deliver seamless payments experiences for our global customers. You will work across Legal, Engineering, Operations and Finance to design, prioritise and launch features that reduce risk, simplify compliance processes, and enable scalable cross-border payments.

This role requires a pragmatic, product-led thinker who can translate complex regulatory requirements into clear product specifications, balance compliance constraints with commercial needs, and drive stakeholder alignment across the business.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 🛠️

• Own the product roadmap for compliance and payments features, defining goals, success metrics and release plans.

• Work closely with Legal and Compliance to interpret regulatory changes (KYC/AML, payments regulations, data protection) and translate them into product requirements.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Design to deliver secure, user-friendly payment flows and compliance tooling for internal and external users.

• Prioritise initiatives by business impact, risk reduction and technical feasibility, and run discovery, prototyping and validation with customers and internal stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain product documentation, policies and runbooks to support operations and audits.

• Partner with Payments Operations and Finance to optimise reconciliation, settlement and chargeback processes.

• Define and track KPIs related to compliance coverage, operational risk, payment success rates and time-to-resolution for incidents.

• Represent the product team in cross-functional governance forums and support external audits or regulator queries as required.

What kind of professional are we looking for?

• 3+ years experience as a Product Manager working on payments, compliance, risk, or closely related financial products.

• Practical knowledge of payments systems, card rails, ACH, SWIFT, and cross-border remittance mechanics.

• Familiarity with regulatory regimes relevant to payments and financial crime prevention (KYC/AML, PSD2, GDPR or equivalents).

• Proven ability to convert regulatory and operational requirements into pragmatic product solutions.

• Experience working with engineering teams, APIs and data models; comfortable reviewing technical designs and trade-offs.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across Legal, Finance and Operations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Data-driven mindset; experience defining and tracking product metrics and running experiments.

• Experience with product discovery techniques: user interviews, prototyping and usability testing.

• Comfortable using product and project tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Figma, analytics platforms).

Why do we enjoy working here?

• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing global fintech company.

• Fully remote, full-time role with flexible working hours across CET time zones.

• Work in a product-driven team with high standards and autonomy.

• Support for professional growth