Product Owner - Financial Crime & Compliance

Project overview

Involved Solutions has partnered on an exciting greenfield build in the UAE, and we're hiring a Product Owner to lead the Financial Crime & Compliance workstream from the ground up. This covers onboarding and KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions and watchlist screening, fraud detection, and case management, and it's one of the earliest pieces of infrastructure that needs to land.

We're looking for someone who has genuinely built these products before rather than inherited and maintained them, and who can move comfortably between compliance and risk conversations and technical delivery discussions.

About the role:

About you:

• Own the product direction, working closely with the business lead to decide what gets built and in what order
• Run the requirements process from end to end, taking domain input and turning it into clear, buildable specs
• Lead delivery of the onboarding and screening capability, including KYC/CDD, sanctions and PEP screening, watchlist management, and risk-rating logic
• Own the monitoring and investigation capability, including transaction monitoring, fraud alerting, and regulatory reporting workflows
• Work across engineering, design, operations, risk, and compliance to manage dependencies and keep delivery on track
• Report progress and flag risk at senior stakeholder level
• Contract role initially to May 2027, with strong likelihood of a further 12-month extension
• 10+ years' experience, having built a product like this from scratch or through a major overhaul, in areas like onboarding, screening, monitoring, or case management
• Experience coordinating delivery across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance in a banking or fintech setting
• Confident pushing back on senior stakeholders, including second-line risk and compliance functions
• Technically literate enough to challenge an engineering team on APIs, event-driven systems, or rules engines, without needing to write code yourself
• Background in AML, fraud, sanctions, KYC, or regulatory compliance product work; vendor platform exposure (e.g. Actimize, SAS, Quantexa, ComplyAdvantage, Napier, Featurespace) is a plus
• UAE/GCC regulatory familiarity (CBUAE, goAML) useful but not essential
• Comfortable building in ambiguity rather than optimising something that already exists

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Dubai, GB
• Rate: 113-138 EUR/h