Commercial Product Manager Principal

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About the Role

As a Commercial Product Manager Principal - Sanctions, you will own and lead the strategy, growth, and market delivery of FIS's sanctions capabilities across the enterprise. You will bring together multiple products and platforms into a cohesive portfolio, define a unified market message, and ensure compliance excellence for banking clients-while directly driving revenue growth, expansion, and portfolio value for FIS. This role blends deep sanctions expertise with a strong, data-driven product mindset, using analytics and measurable outcomes to continuously improve effectiveness, reduce risk, and scale impact across FIS solutions.

About the team

You will join a global product organization responsible for building and delivering mission-critical financial technology used by banks around the world. As a Commercial Product Manager Principal, you will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, sales, partnerships, and client success teams to ensure sanctions capabilities are embedded seamlessly across FIS solutions and positioned clearly in the market. This role operates at the intersection of regulation, technology, and growth.

What you will be doing

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and commercial outcomes for FIS sanctions solutions, with accountability for portfolio growth, adoption, and revenue contribution to FIS.

• Act as the enterprise sanctions subject-matter expert, guiding internal teams across core banking, account origination, payments, and onboarding to ensure clients achieve consistent, high-quality compliance outcomes.

• Define and deliver a unified sanctions market message, aligning product capabilities, sales enablement, and client value propositions across FIS.

• Drive compliance excellence through data, using product-driven analytics to measure and improve key performance indicators such as false positives, precision-recall, alert quality, and operational efficiency.

• Establish clear success metrics and dashboards to demonstrate ongoing improvements in sanctions effectiveness, client outcomes, and portfolio performance.

• Identify opportunities to build, partner, or integrate capabilities that strengthen detection quality, reduce friction, and accelerate time to value for clients.

• Streamline internal operations and product experiences to reduce complexity for bank clients managing onboarding and ongoing sanctions compliance.

• Partner with sales, client teams, and leadership to support strategic deals, articulate value, and expand adoption of sanctions capabilities across the FIS client base.

• Lead through influence-becoming the go-to expert across the company, connecting regulatory depth, product execution, and commercial impact.

• Operate with urgency, curiosity, and a bias to action-turning insight, data, and opportunity into delivered outcomes

What you will need

• Deep expertise in sanctions compliance within financial services, including regulatory expectations and real-world bank operations.

• Significant experience in product management or product leadership, with ownership of strategy, roadmap, and measurable commercial outcomes.

• Strong data-driven product mindset, with hands-on experience using analytics to evaluate and improve model and product performance (e.g., false positives, precision-recall, alert quality).

• Proven ability to translate complex data into clear product decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes for both internal stakeholders and clients.

• Demonstrated success influencing cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority.

• A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, shows hustle, and consistently drives work forward from concept to impact.

Added bonus if you have

• Experience working across large financial technology platforms or enterprise banking solutions.

• Background in partnerships, platform integration, or ecosystem development.

• Experience supporting client onboarding, transaction monitoring, or compliance operations within banking environments.

What we offer you

At FIS, you can learn, grow, and make an impact in your career. Our benefits include

• a flexible and creative work environment
• a diverse and collaborative culture
• professional and personal development resources
• opportunities to volunteer and give back, and a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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