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Elliptic is seeking a Head of Compliance Product to lead the product strategy and execution for its core compliance portfolio—the products at the heart of the company serving some of the world's largest exchanges, banks, and government agencies. The compliance industry is at an inflection point, with teams everywhere turning to AI to make their work dramatically more efficient while keeping every automated decision auditable and explainable. Elliptic is building that future with customers, not just for them, and this role owns it.
You will lead a team of product managers responsible for wallet and transaction screening, continuous monitoring, on-chain investigations, and risk configuration. You will drive the product side of Elliptic's agentic compliance programme—AI capabilities that make compliance work faster and better with explainability designed in from the start. This is a player-coach role reporting to the VP of Product, where you will lead and grow your team while personally owning some of the hardest problems on the roadmap. Much of what you build will have no precedent; you will be inventing the category.
Key responsibilities include: owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the compliance portfolio and defining what these products become as AI reshapes compliance work; leading product for the agentic compliance programme; leading, coaching, and growing a team of product managers with deliberate people development as a core output; staying obsessively close to customers through design partnerships, analyst shadowing, product instrumentation, and internal dogfooding; prioritizing ruthlessly between zero-to-one bets and products customers depend on today; and executing with rigour to raise velocity and quality together, owning outcomes rather than shipping dates.
This is not a compliance officer role—you are building products compliance teams use, not running a compliance programme. It is not a caretaker role; the core products are successful and deeply embedded, but the mandate is reinvention. It is not management-only; you will lead product managers and personally do product work on the hardest problems.
The product organisation is centred in London with a growing US presence.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years building software products, including leading and developing product managers, with people who are better because they worked with you
- A genuine zero-to-one track record: an ambiguous problem in a complex domain, taken from nothing to a product real users depend on
- Depth in financial crime compliance from the product side (transaction monitoring, screening, KYC/EDD, or investigations), built inside an exchange, a bank, a fintech, or a compliance technology company
- Working knowledge of crypto and blockchain as a baseline; deep blockchain analytics experience is a strong plus
- AI-native: AI embedded in how you work and build every day, shipped AI or agentic capabilities to production, and raise the AI capability of teams around you. If AI has not materially changed how you build product in the last two years, this is not the right role
- Deep executional rigour: break complex problems into shippable steps, sweat the details that determine quality, and reliably carry work over the line
- High self-sufficiency: find high-value opportunities no one assigned you, create clarity rather than wait for it, and own a broad remit while the map is still being drawn
- Continuous systems thinking: look for the repeatable system behind every one-off fix, building leverage so each problem solved makes the whole team permanently faster
- Data-informed operating style: instrument what you ship, argue from evidence, and change your mind when the data disagrees
- Judgement under ambiguity: know which decisions to make fast and which to hold open when precedent does not exist
- Comfort in regulated, high-stakes environments: treat trust, explainability, and defensibility as features, and operate well at the tension point between innovation and regulatory reality
- Restlessness about velocity and quality: treat "that's just how long it takes" as a claim to be tested
