Product Manager - AI/ML AML Platform

Job Title:

Product Manager: AI/ML AML Platform Department : CEP IT

About Business line/Function: The AML IT function within BNP Paribas CIB’s CEFS-technology delivers an end-to-end IT platform supporting the bank’s AML program. It converts regulatory and compliance rules into scalable, secure IT solutions to detect, investigate, and report suspicious activity globally. As the technology backbone, it processes transaction data into actionable AML insights, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and innovation.

Position Purpose This next-gen AML role strengthens BNPP Group’s defenses against financial crime by leveraging cutting-edge tech and innovation. As a Product Manager, you’ll be responsible for the strategic direction of an AI/ML-powered AML platform. This involves defining and refining a multi-year vision and a detailed quarterly roadmap, ensuring all developments are synchronized with business objectives, regulatory mandates, and quantifiable compliance targets.

Responsibilities Direct Responsibilities

• Own the product vision & roadmap: define, communicate, and continuously evolve the vision and roadmap for an AI/ML-driven AML platform, aligning business strategy, regulatory obligations, and measurable client and compliance outcomes.
• Drive product strategy & market alignment: assess market trends, competitor offerings, and emerging AI capabilities to shape product positioning; build business cases and secure sponsorship for new investments.
• Manage stakeholders: act as the voice of the product to senior Compliance, Ops, Technology, and Risk leadership; negotiate trade-offs, manage dependencies across teams and vendors, and secure funding through compelling business cases.
• Lead discovery & engagement: run discovery workshops, user journey mapping, and UX research with Compliance, Operations, and investigator users; translate insights into use cases, requirements, and prioritized product capabilities.
• Drive GenAI innovation: identify and validate opportunities to apply LLMs and agentic AI with appropriate guardrails, human-in-the-loop design, and hallucination/risk controls.
• Shape AI/ML capabilities: partner with relevant expert teams to define, prioritize, and productize ML use cases, making informed calls on model selection trade-offs, rules-vs-model-vs-hybrid approaches, and detection effectiveness vs. explainability vs. operational cost.
• Build AML domain depth: partner with Compliance SMEs to interpret regulatory expectations and translate them into product capabilities, rapidly developing financial-crime expertise on the job.
• Lead go-to-market & adoption: plan launches end-to-end with various stakeholder teams; develop enablement materials, training, release communications, and post-go-live success measures to drive adoption and demonstrable business value.
• Guide Agile delivery: work with Product Owners, BAs, and dev teams to translate the roadmap into epics and prioritized backlogs, steering sprint outcomes, release scope, and sequencing without losing sight of strategic goals.
• Measure & optimize outcomes: define and track product KPIs (alert quality, false-positive rates, investigator productivity, adoption, client satisfaction, model performance) and use them to steer roadmap and investment decisions.
• Mentor & build capability: coach Business Analysts, POs, and delivery teams on AI/ML product practices, Agile/BDD methods, and regulatory trends to build a high-performing product organization.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Proven product management experience: significant experience as a Product Manager owning vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for data-rich or AI-powered enterprise products.
• Executive-grade communication: ability to simplify complex AI and regulatory concepts into compelling narratives for C-level stakeholders, governance committees, and non-technical users alike.
• Financial services domain experience: background in one or more relevant areas such as payments, transactions, banking, capital markets, risk, regulatory reporting, or compliance-adjacent domains; comfort operating in regulated environments.
• Strategic & analytical acumen: ability to decode business and regulatory needs, quantify opportunity and risk, build business cases, and translate ambiguity into a clear, prioritized product strategy.
• Data-driven decision making: hands-on skills to analyze complex datasets (SQL/PL-SQL), define product and model KPIs, and ensure data governance, quality, and lineage across the platform.
• Strong AI/ML product expertise: demonstrable experience/knowledge defining and shipping ML-powered product capabilities; solid command of the end-to-end ML lifecycle.
• GenAI & LLM fluency: familiarity with large language models, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows, with a view on where GenAI can (and cannot) responsibly augment detection, investigation, and reporting workflows.
• Agile delivery leadership—expertise in backlog management, epic/story decomposition, BDD practices, and orchestrating delivery across model development, engineering, and QA teams.

Nice To Have

• AML/FinCrime domain knowledge—AML typologies, transaction monitoring, sanctions/PEP screening, KYC/CDD, case management, and regulatory frameworks (FATF, EU AMLD, OFAC).
• Exposure to AI/model governance—model risk management, explainability techniques (SHAP/LIME), AI regulation (SR 11-7, EU AI Act), and responsible-AI practices.
• Experience with AML platforms—Actimize, Quantexa, Feedzai, Oracle FCCM, or in-house detection engines.
• Model performance & evaluation literacy: comfort with metrics such as precision-recall, ROC-AUC, false-positive rates, drift, and calibration, and experience turning them into product KPIs and roadmap decisions.
• Knowledge of BPMN/workflow tools (e.g., Camunda) and experimentation/A-B testing platforms.

Behavioral Skills

• • Cross functional collaboration & Clear communication + Ability to synthetize / simplify + Ability to deliver / Results driven + Attention to detail / rigor + Problem solving mindset / Creativity & Innovation + Adaptability + Ownership + Compliance focused + Continuous learning & Resilience under pressure

Transversal Skills

• • Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution + Ability to understand, explain and support change + Ability to develop others & improve their skills + Ability to set up relevant performance indicators + Analytical Ability

Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent, Masters or above preferred

Experience Level: At least 12 years

Location: Mumbai

About BNP Paribas Group BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

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