Product Manager, Compliance

About Uphold

A digital money platform serving over 6 million customers in more than 150 countries. Uphold now manages more than $1.5 billion in customer assets. The Silicon Valley firm currently opens around 10,000 accounts a day as consumers seek a more versatile and cost-effective home for their financial lives. Leveraging blockchain technology, the platform provides both consumers and businesses with easy access to 46 digital assets, 27 national currencies, four precious metals and 50 fractional U.S. equities. Uphold?s unique trading experience - ?Anything-to-Anything? - allows customers to trade directly between asset classes, saving time and money. Uphold supports financial inclusion by enabling customers virtually anywhere to open an account in less than a minute and trade with no minimum investment amounts. Customers can send money to virtually anyone with an email address free of charge. To learn more, please visit https://uphold.com/en-us/

The opportunity:

Uphold is looking for a Product Manager of Compliance to join our Product team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you?ll get to help us deliver the best products possible within the Uphold ecosystem by making sure everyone understands the users? needs, wants and must-haves and that these are translated into a marketable product. You will collaborate with the different teams in Uphold expanding the product-suite by constantly solving problems ? adding and improving features.

You will be responsible for ensuring all Uphold?s products and solutions satisfy all associated compliance requirements. In addition this role will coordinate all of the activities required to bring the product to market, liaising between the different departments within the company, assuring readable and accessible documentation of the different products being built.

What you?ll be doing primarily:

• Acting as the user-advocate during the whole product development life-cycle, subjecting early-stage designs to expert review, and offering suggestions from a user-centered perspective.
• Providing input and feedback on issues relating to the products, contributing towards product strategy and vision.
• Identifying and evaluating compliance requirements for new and existing products and/or features.
• Coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance requirements are met.
• Writing comprehensive documentation for the different products with specifications and user stories, assuring the readability and accessibility across all departments in the company.
• Collaborating with leaders of multidisciplinary teams to execute on business objectives, defining how features will contribute to the roadmap.
• Taking high-level product ideas from conceptualization to commercialization, working with relevant departments to establish timeframes, expectations, feasibility, and alignment.
• Gathering and evaluating users? feedback, ideas, and opinions.
• Continuously researching and learning about the users, market, competitors and similar products.
• Executing in a fast-paced environment.
• Staying on top of regulatory development, industry trends to drive strategic focused decisions.

Required qualifications:

• Degree in Business, Technology or related field.
• Have at least 3 years of experience working on technology-powered products as either a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst/scientist, or user researcher.
• Very strong communication skills, written and spoken, with high emotional intelligence.
• Metrics-driven to identify the key success indicators for the different products.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and flexible to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Analytical skills to examine internal and external data.
• Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business, such as engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing.
• Knowledge on how to conduct user interviews and gather feedback directly from customers.
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience working in fintech or finance-related topics.

Importantly, if you?re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities.

What we have to offer you:

• An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
• An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
• Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
• A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee and other great benefits.
• Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
• Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.

Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!

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