Product Compliance Lead - Remediation

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

• Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
• As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
• For everyone, everywhere.
• More about our mission and what we offer .

Job Description

Wise is growing at scale, and our mission is money without borders, making it instant, convenient, transparent, and eventually free. As we expand globally and operate as a listed company, navigating regulatory complexity and ensuring robust compliance is critical to our continuous growth.

• We are looking for a Remediation Lead to lead our high-stakes, cross-functional global remediation and compliance initiatives.
• Sits at the intersection of Risk & Compliance, Product, and Operations, you will act as the master orchestrator for complex, multi-dimensional compliance programmes.
• This role requires an individual with an authoritative background in financial crime, risk management, and first-line control assurance.
• You will have full ownership of board-level updates, global remediation tracking, and direct external communication with regulatory authorities.
• This role will also include setting up the long term plan and framework for remediation management globally.

Team Mandate

The Remediation Team will:

• Own programme management for all regulatory remediation workstreams globally
• Establish the framework for escalation, reporting, and decision-making
• Provide technical challenge on approach, timelines, and output quality
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders - not just coordination
• Deliver clear, regular reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums

Your Mission:

• Own Global Remediation Programmes: Lead the end-to-end design, governance, and structural execution of volatile, large-scale issues and global regulatory remediation programmes across multiple multiple teams.
• Regulatory Liaison & External Communication: Serve as a key point of contact for external regulatory examinations and audits. You will manage requests, coordinate evidence collection, and directly front communications with regulators.
• Subject Matter Expert challenge: This role is not just project coordination - you will provide technical challenges on approaches, timelines and output quality; Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders and help mediate between various stakeholders.
• Executive & Board Governance: Build framework structures for executive reporting. Own the creation and delivery of high-stakes updates, risk registers, and operational progression metrics presented directly to the Board of Directors and Regional Committees.
• Cross-Functional Alignment & Facilitation: Navigate Wise's highly autonomous culture to break down silos, align conflicting product roadmaps, and secure engineering prioritisation for critical "friction deflection" and compliance-led process redesigns.
• Data-Driven Stewardship: Establish the methodology to quantify the "cost of compliance friction" and evaluate process trends using rigorous qualitative and quantitative data storytelling to clearly inform senior management's strategic trade-offs.

Qualifications

A Bit About You:

• Extensive Experience: You have 8+ years of experience leading complex programme management, remediations or 1LOD risk & compliance within a hyper-growth Fintech, Tier-1 bank, or highly regulated financial institution.
• Highly Organised: You have direct project or programme management experience and are extremely organised driving alignment and tracking of key deliverables across a suite of stakeholders.
• Domain Expertise: Deep expert knowledge of FinCrime, AML, Sanctions, KYC/CDD, and Risk Mitigation platforms. You thoroughly understand how compliance controls translate into frontline operational workflows.
• Regulatory Track Record: Proven experience directly interfacing with major regulatory bodies and successfully navigating complex statutory exams, consent orders, or multi-jurisdictional lookbacks.
• Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and persuasion skills, with a demonstrated ability to confidently present to, challenge, and influence C-suite executives, Board members, and product leads without formal authority.
• Systems Thinker & Problem Solver: You naturally question the status quo, loathe manual workarounds, and excel at translating highly abstract or ambiguous regulatory

requirements

into concrete, repeatable process blueprints built for 10x growth.

• [Nice to have] Advanced Analytical Rigor: Highly data-driven and comfortable utilising complex financial/operational metrics or BI tools (e.g., Looker/Lightdash, SQL) to uncover the systematic root causes behind compliance or operational breaks.

This Role Will Give You the Opportunity To:

• Lead the Development of a Global Remediations Approach: First role of this type within Wise - you will get the opportunity to leave your mark on how we manage remediations.
• Drive Company-Wide Safety & Growth: Directly protect Wise's global infrastructure and licenses while actively shaping how we expand responsibly into new markets.
• Operate with High Agency: We believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. You will have the freedom to outline your program's vision, design global standard frameworks, and make high-stakes decision calls.

Additional Information

Salary - £125,000 to £179,000 annually (+RSU's)

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
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