Vice President of Product, Ripjar
Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
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Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help governments and organisations automate the detection, investigation and monitoring of threats from criminal activity.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building and leading a robust product function and driving a product-led business culture, ideally within an Enterprise SaaS, platform, or data-heavy technology company
- Experience in AML compliance, risk management, or financial crime prevention, gained within a financial institution (Tier 1/2 bank) or a leading RegTech provider
- Applied knowledge of global AML frameworks, sanctions, PEP screening, Adverse Media, and FATF standards, with a proven track record of translating complex regulations into successful commercial products
- Have previously operated within or extensively served the Banking and Financial Services sector around financial crime and data analytics solutions
- Experience operating in an environment utilising ML/AI components in product development. Familiarity with API-enabled, modular, SaaS compliance software solutions is highly desirable
- Exceptional communication skills. Confident public speaker, capable of quickly establishing credibility with teams, peers, founders, investors, and C-suite clients
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking product leader to join our leadership team as the VP, Product with a specialised focus and subject matter expertise in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crime (FinCrime) compliance
- The VP, Product will own the vision, strategy, and execution of our AI-driven risk intelligence product suite, ensuring our offerings remain industry-leading, compliant, and positioned for aggressive global growth
- This vision will also consider internal innovation areas such as data science as well as the latest research into areas such as machine learning and AI to ensure we are ahead of the market from an innovation perspective
- Working closely with Ripjar’s CEO on both strategic innovation, positioning and prioritisation. The VP, Product will also work very closely with the CTO and technology organisation to implement the product roadmap
- Executive Strategy: Set and drive the overall product strategy, vision, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives and long-term business strategy. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, contribute to overall business direction, including strategic orientation and key build/buy/ally decisions
- Voice of the customer: Ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in our internal and external communication as well as at the Executive Leadership Team meetings and discussions
- Commercial Ownership: Partner closely with Sales and Marketing on the Go-to-Market strategy, taking substantial input on product packaging, messaging, pricing, and partnerships to maximize market impact and P&L performance
- Scale and Execution: Implement robust, modern agile product development processes
- Maintain a bias towards data-driven execution, balancing long-term product vision with short-term commercial pressures in a high-growth SaaS environment
- Culture: Ensuring that the leadership principles of Ripjar are always upheld
- Ensuring a collaborative culture that celebrates innovation and provides a safe space for all to achieve their best
- Domain Expertise: Advise executive leadership on global regulations, typologies,
- Sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, and risk-based compliance frameworks within the
- AML/FinCrime sector
- Regulatory Translation: Translate evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., 6AMLD, AMLA, FATF updates) into actionable product enhancements and future product vision, ensuring our solutions maintain absolute compliance, are visionary and market leading in terms of both performance and features
- AI/ML Alignment: Collaborate with Data Science and Engineering to shape features and support the development of AI models and workflows, ensuring their suitability, efficacy, and compliance for critical financial crime activities
- Function Leadership: Build out and scale the Product Management and User Experience (UX) functions to meet global business needs
- Talent Management: Attract, recruit, retain, coach, and develop top-tier product management and design talent, embedding requisite domain expertise within the teams. Foster a collaborative, product-led culture that encourages experimentation and rapid feedback
- Voice of the Customer: Coordinate the collection of high-quality, nuanced client feedback, ensuring the entire company understands client FinCrime needs and how the product suite addresses them
- Trusted Advisor: Act as a trusted external advisor in high-stakes client engagements, workshops, and proof-of-concept projects, leveraging deep domain credibility to secure new deals and major renewals
- Thought Leadership: Partner with marketing team by contributing to high impact thought leadership content (white papers, blogs) and chairing client roundtables and presenting at major industry events
- To be aware of, and respond appropriately to, issues of data confidentiality
- Support and comply with Company policies, practices and procedures and, to be aware of responsibilities in relation to Ripjar’s Information Security Management
- Contribute to the overall ethos/objectives of the Company
- Maintain respectful and effective communication with colleagues and other stakeholders
- Comply with health & safety procedures, taking responsibility for the health & safety of yourself and of others who may be affected by what you do
- Undertake other duties which may from time to time be reasonably assigned by your line manager and/or senior leaders, and which are commensurate with the post
Our take
Ripjar provides a data intelligence platform, Labyrinth, that uses Artificial Intelligence to protect organisations against financial crime threats like money laundering, fraud, and funding terrorism. Labyrinth enables human analysts to make better-informed decisions with speed and accuracy, saving their clients’ costs and time.
Previous investments signify confidence in Ripjar's data intelligence technology and its ability to protect companies and governments from criminal activities that jeopardise their assets and prosperity. And it's no surprise, as Ripjar claims Labyrinth is the most sophisticated and advanced cyber-security solution on the market.
As economic uncertainty rises globally, so does the incidence of financial crime, particularly with the increasing shift to online transactions. Both tech companies and the UK government are turning to Ripjar to address these challenges. With a global client base exceeding 20,0000 and recent innovations, the company is well set to see further growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2020
$37.4m
SERIES B
Mar 2017
$4.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $42.4m
Company benefits
- Pension: Our company pension scheme is a great way of building a pot of money for your retirement and as your employer we match your contributions up to 4%
- Private Family Health insurance: We provide private medical insurance through Vitality Health. As well as giving staff general advice about eating greens and moving about, Vitality Health gives personal, achievable goals to get healthier with Vitality partners helping along the way with discounts, cashback and reward
- 25 days holidays: We offer candidates 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday per year, increasing to 30 after 5 years' service
- EMI Share Options: We offer an employee share option scheme to recognise and reward staff members for their support, service and contribution to the business
- Flexible Working: Employees have the option to work from one of our offices located in Cheltenham, Bristol or London or to work fully remote
- Wellbeing Allowance: We provide employees with a £500 allowance, paid quarterly in the sum of £125 per quarter to support a flexible, holistic approach to employees’ well-being
- Free lunch and snacks: There is a well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks. Lunch is also provided and ranges from a selection of hot and cold food
Company HQ
Cheltenham, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Annis
(Co-Founder)Served as the company's CTO until 2021, and has been CEO since November 2018. Jeremy is a former Intelligence Professional and Data Scientist with the British government’s signals intelligence agency, GCHQ
Tom Griffin
(Co-Founder & COO)Served as the company's CEO until Jan 2019. Tom has a PhD in Engineering Mathematics, and prior to Ripjar was the Technical Director of GCHQ’s Engineering Department responsible for creating and sustaining the solutions that protect the UK from threats including terrorism, cyber and serious organised crime
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