Vice President, Name Screening

At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We're a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place

**Job Overview**:
We are growing our multi-talented team, and looking for an experienced and motivated Vice President, Name Screening to join our Product team, and help shape the strategy and vision of our cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-powered product related to Anti-Money Laundering, PEP and Sanctions screening processes.

**Location**: 100% Remote forever

**Key Duties**:

- Leading the product vision, strategy, development and growth roadmap for the name screening product, covering on-premise, cloud and SaaS
- Design, own and implement the business solution for name screening
- Scaling up the name screening product globally, by partnering with the leading banks and industry leaders, to expand product features and use cases
- Leading the team of Data Scientists, Product Managers and Engineers, to deliver successful POVs (Proof of Value), and a clear path to production
- Leading client engagement across the product lifecycle: discovery, design, development, testing and sustaining
- Own product results, including product performance, customer experience, business metrics, market research and competition analysis
- Establish product and organizational priorities, including cross functional alignment, to drive client success and business growth globally
- Effectively communicate strategies and plans to various stakeholders, including customers and senior management
- Mentor and lead a team of high performing product managers and SMEs
- Report to the Head of Product, present challenges faced by key clients and potential solutions for their needs

**Requirements**:

- 10+ years of experience in financial institutions, technology or consulting roles, in Anti-Financial Crime / Anti-Money Laundering / Customer Due Diligence / KYC / Sanctions / Anti-Fraud domain in global banks, technology or consulting firms is a must
- End to end understanding of client and screening lifecycle and regulatory requirements, across PEP, AML and Sanctions
- Experience with financial crime compliance solutions, especially with regard to the name screening process, across screening, data, watchlist and case management systems, such as Fircosoft, LexisNexis, Netreveal, OWS, Actimize, etc
- Strong understanding of technical design and architecture, integration options, tuning, analytics, data quality management, data lineage, etc
- Experience with technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing would be preferred
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit and ability to think out of the box to come up with innovative solutions to complex problems
- Excellent organizational, analytical, risk management and leadership skills
- Ability to prioritize a diverse workload with multiple deadlines
- Flexibility to adapt to changing directions based on business needs

**Our culture**

**You will be co-creating our business solutions**

We believe that your feedback allows us to create the best solutions as well as adjusted work culture. You will have a real impact on the growth of the company and the product we develop.

**Experienced team**

We aren't your run-of-the-mill tech start-up. At Silent Eight, everyone is a leader in their own field with perspective and experience shared across teams and departments.

**Development-centric**

Because learning never ends, we empower our employees to invest in themselves. We provide a range of resources such as paid Development Days, in-house training, lunch-and-learns, etc. to make sure our employees are continuing to grow each day.

**Team building events**

We know that our success is only possible if we work together as a team. We are a group of passionate individuals united by a common mission. Therefore we like to meet together regularly to connect not just as coworkers, but as human beings, whether it's at an offsite in Dubai or a weekly "Tea Time" to catch up.

**100% remote work forever**

We are not new to working remotely. In fact, we've been doing it since 2013 and we know how to make you feel supported, connected, and included. We believe that the freedom to choose where you work from is important to finding the journey that is right for you.

**Don't wait Join our team today**

Silent Eight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law.