Senior Program Manager

🕒 September 17

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Napier

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Compliance

💸 Finance

Artificial Intelligence • Compliance • Finance

Napier AI is a leading global provider of AI-driven compliance solutions focused on transforming financial crime compliance. The company offers an intelligent end-to-end compliance platform that integrates multiple solutions for client screening, transaction monitoring, and risk assessment. Trusted by world-leading data providers, Napier AI enhances anti-money laundering (AML) defenses with advanced AI and machine learning technologies. Their products are scalable, adaptable to various sectors, and are designed to reduce false positives and negatives, improving the efficiency and accuracy of compliance teams. Napier AI is recognized for its security-first approach, ensuring data is well-protected and compliance is continuously optimized.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end delivery of Napier AI's largest enterprise programs, including Tier 1 national and European bank engagements • Establish and run program governance, including steering committees, executive status reviews, RAID discipline, and decision logs • Define and defend acceptance criteria for go-live and regulatory or contractual milestones • Coordinate delivery across Professional Services, Product, Engineering, Platform, Support, and Customer Success • Act as the senior delivery contact for client program directors, delivery leads, and executive sponsors • Chair steering committees and executive status forums • Prevent client escalations from bypassing program governance • Represent Napier at client executive escalations, relevant industry regulator interactions, and third-party governance • Own program P&L, forecast, and margin • Run formal change control for scope movement, defect classification, and delivery obligations • Defend against uncapped commitments, one-sided release triggers, and unbounded acceptance criteria • Approve product commitments leaving Napier • Escalate commercial and contractual risk to the CCO • Maintain the program plan, dependency map, and critical path • Own the risk register and drive mitigations • Establish and maintain go/no-go readiness assessments • Drive continuous improvement in Napier's delivery methodology • Manage escrow, source-code deposit, or equivalent regulatory instruments with Legal, Engineering, and third-party agents • Manage client expectations on trigger events, deposit content, and verification cycles • Ensure successful implementation, adoption, and business value realization • Transition delivery into Customer Success and Support with complete documentation and no orphaned commitments

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years leading large-scale enterprise software delivery programs, with at least 5 years at senior program director or equivalent level • Direct, deep, and current financial crime compliance domain experience: AML, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions Screening, or Case Management platforms • At least one enterprise implementation into a Tier 1 or systemic bank in the UK, EU, or US, chairing steering committees at C-1 level • Proven turnaround experience taking over a live enterprise program mid-flight, restoring client confidence, re-baselining credibly, and landing a successful outcome • Cloud-based enterprise SaaS platform delivery experience, ideally including Azure, AWS, or GCP-hosted environments • Multi-vendor program experience across client, primary vendor, hyperscaler, and system integrator • Strong commercial and contractual experience, including defensive change control, scope management, margin defense, and distinguishing enhancements from defects • Experience with regulatory or contractual hard deadlines, including go/no-go gates, DORA, PRA/FCA supervisory dates, or equivalent • Presence and credibility at C-1 and C-suite client levels • Experience of escrow, source-code deposit, or equivalent third-party regulatory instruments (highly desirable) • Experience across multiple geographic regions: EMEA, Americas, APAC (highly desirable) • Program management certifications such as MSP, PgMP, PMP, or Prince2 (highly desirable) • Experience in Private Equity-backed software companies operating to a defined value creation plan (highly desirable)