Description
The Associate Director, Product Owner - Compliance is responsible for maximising the value of a set of compliance technology products across the Legal, Compliance & WREF domain.
They work closely with business stakeholders to define outcomes and ensure delivered functionality is usable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to product strategy.
The Compliance Product Owner guides Product Analysts and works with delivery teams to ensure requirements are clear, value-driven, and data-informed, while overseeing iterative delivery that improves product performance, adoption, and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities.
- Own and manage the Product backlog for all Compliance products ensuring requirements are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs.
- Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity.
- Lead the Product team’s delivery activities, guiding Product Analysts and working with Engineers, Architects, and Testers to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose.
- Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist covering support model requirements, training needs, and user onboarding.
- Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time, stability, and UX signals.
- Ensure product changes follow required digital & tech management system (DTMS) security controls, risk assessments, and regulated change processes.
- Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies.
- Act as an escalation point for the Product team and business users on functional product issues.
- Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product, promoting agile, iterative, value-driven, and data-led ways of working.
- Support the Director, Compliance Product Manager with the development of bold, data lead roadmaps for the Compliance tech stack.
- Be the aligned Tech Business Partner to the Compliance Risk Analytics & Monitoring team.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering).
- 15 to 19 years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.
- Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements and managing a product backlog.
- Experience working within Enterprise technology, particularly aligned to the Compliance function.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.
- Familiarity with enterprise governance requirements such as change control, security, data protection, and regulatory/compliance considerations.
- Knowledge of Compliance domains within large FTSE organisation and familiarity with the technology platforms that enable Risk & Compliance business processes.
- Knowledge of systems/platforms such as OneTrust, ServiceNow, Databricks, Certa, Harvey, Legora.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- Skilled in coaching and guiding Product Analysts and delivery team members.
- Able to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data to identify opportunities for process simplification and improved user experience.
- Comfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements.