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Senior Product Manager, Watchlist

Socure - San Francisco, CA, USA - In-office - posted 2026-09-14

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Socure is building identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy, verifying identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. This role owns the Watchlist screening and monitoring platform, a foundational product in Socure's compliance suite serving banks, fintechs, gaming companies, and other enterprises globally managing sanctions and AML risk. You will own the complete roadmap and strategy for the market-leading Watchlist Screening and Monitoring product. This is a high-ownership, externally-facing role requiring strong product judgment, AML domain expertise, and the ability to navigate complex partner and customer relationships. Key responsibilities include: **Product Strategy & Roadmap:** Own the Watchlist product roadmap, balancing compliance accuracy, customer needs, and engineering capacity. Translate market trends, regulatory changes, and customer feedback into product priorities and requirements. Define and track key metrics including screening accuracy, false positive rates, match coverage, and customer outcomes. **Screening, Monitoring & AI Development:** Drive improvements to core individual screening and monitoring capabilities, including name match accuracy and data coverage. Work with Engineering to evolve platform scalability, reliability, and integration with Socure's broader product suite. Collaborate with Data Science to build next-generation data ingestion technology and develop machine learning systems that maintain the patented real-time matching engine at highest levels of recall and precision. **Cross-Functional Leadership:** Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, and Compliance Ops to translate requirements into executable plans. Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and GTM to support deal cycles and grow the Watchlist enterprise customer base. Represent product externally with compliance buyers, at industry events, and in customer conversations. **Data & Performance Analysis:** Use SQL and analytics to evaluate product performance and derive insights that shape prioritization. Conduct competitive analysis and deep dives on emerging compliance requirements and market opportunities. **Requirements:** - 3–5 years in product management, preferably in compliance technology, AML/sanctions screening, identity verification, or ML-driven products - Familiarity with AML/BSA regulations, sanctions screening workflows, or financial crime compliance strongly preferred - Strong understanding of APIs, data pipelines, and ML model behavior; comfortable reviewing technical specs and writing SQL - Ability to evaluate screening performance metrics (recall, precision, hit rate) and translate them into product decisions - Experience working directly with compliance buyers, financial institutions, or enterprise customers in complex environments - Ability to explain technical or compliance concepts clearly to engineering partners, compliance buyers, and executive stakeholders - Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Engineering, Data Science, and go-to-market teams in a fast-paced environment - Must be located in one of Socure's talent hubs: New York, San Francisco, Seattle, or Miami

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