Senior Director

About RiskExec

RiskExec provides compliance analytics and regulatory reporting software for financial institutions. Our clients rely on us to analyze high-stakes regulatory risk, produce defensible analyses, and turn complex data into decisions they can trust and act on.

Working at RiskExec

RiskExec is building a world-class compliance and business intelligence platform trusted by banks, credit unions, fintech companies, and other regulated lenders.

We help customers navigate complex regulatory requirements while making better business decisions. Our operating model is built around speed, rigor, accountability, and customer outcomes. We value people who take ownership, work directly with their colleagues, communicate clearly, and remain accountable for results.

As an entrepreneurial organization undergoing significant product and AI transformation, our work does not always conform to a traditional 9-to-5 schedule. This role requires sound judgment, responsiveness, and a willingness to engage when critical customer or business needs arise.

Role Overview

This role exists because Fair Lending and adjacent analyses such as Fair Servicing and Redlining are becoming more strategic, more visible, and more demanding for our clients. Financial institutions need faster insight, clearer workflows, stronger defensibility, and more automation. Meeting that demand requires more than product management. It requires a practitioner: someone who has done this work, who can sit across from a compliance officer as a peer, and who can convert that expertise into both shipped software and direct client value.

Applied Fair Lending expertise is a non-negotiable requirement. Candidates must have hands-on experience conducting fair lending, fair servicing, or redlining analysis, supporting regulatory examinations, or advising financial institutions on these risks. We will teach the product craft. We will not teach the domain. Candidates with product management experience but no practical fair lending background will not advance.

The Senior Director, Fair Lending Solutions will own the direction and business outcomes for the Fair Lending, Fair Servicing, and Redlining modules. The mandate spans two connected fronts: driving the product roadmap that serves hundreds of institutions, and delivering the applied expertise, advisory engagement, and market presence that make RiskExec more than a software vendor to its clients. The two fronts run as one system: client engagements generate the insight, the product encodes it, and the measure of great advisory work is that the next client needs less of it. You own what we build.

Location

We are considering candidates based in the United States who can work remotely. Candidates located in the Eastern or Central time zones are preferred.

What You Will Own

• Product strategy and roadmap: Define the direction, priorities, sequencing, tradeoffs, and de-scoping decisions for Fair Lending, Fair Servicing, Redlining, and related analyses within the compliance analytics suite.
• Advisory and applied expertise: Bring practical fair lending judgment directly to clients: complex engagements, methodology guidance, and applied problem-solving in support of product strategy. Convert what you learn in that work into tools, workflows, and approaches that can be repeated across the client base rather than delivered one institution at a time.
• Client outcomes and adoption: Drive measurable improvement in usage, workflow completion, time-to-insight, renewal health, and value realization.
• Commercial impact and market presence: Provide the product inputs needed by Sales, Client Success, and Marketing to support packaging, positioning, competitive differentiation, and expansion. Represent the RiskExec fair lending point of view externally through webinars, industry events, and client education.
• Voice-of-client operating system: Build structured intake across Sales, Client Success, Support, Implementation, and direct client conversations; synthesize signals into decisions; and close the loop with internal teams and clients.
• Competitive position: Maintain a clear view of market alternatives, feature parity decisions, differentiation, and emerging threats.
• Quality and trust: Hold product behavior to a compliance-grade standard: outputs are defensible, releases are ready, and the software is usable by clients operating in regulated environments.
• Enablement for scale: Convert what advisory engagements teach you into repeatable onboarding, training, workflow, and self-service assets that reduce services dependency and improve client consistency over time. This is where the hands-on work compounds.

Scope Boundary

You are accountable for product direction, prioritization, value delivery, and market success. Engineering owns how the product is built. You will partner closely with Engineering and DevOps to support delivery, but your mandate is to drive outcomes, force clarity, and hold the organization accountable to commitments. When hands-on client work and roadmap focus compete for your time, repeatability is the tiebreaker: an engagement earns its hours by making the product and the client base stronger, not by substituting for them.

How You Will Drive Impact

This is a high-output operator role. You will run a disciplined product cadence, make decisions with evidence, and ship capability that improves client outcomes and business performance. You will operate through a clear rhythm:

• Weekly product execution review with Engineering: Scope lock, delivery risks, dependencies, readiness, and decision points.
• Bi-weekly client discovery and validation: Workflow observation, adoption friction, renewal risk, win/loss signals, and applied advisory work.
• Monthly suite business review: Adoption, retention risk, roadmap progress, services burden, support trends, and revenue impact.
• Quarterly strategy refresh: Regulatory shifts, market changes, competitive movement, client demand, and portfolio reallocation.

You will have decision authority over priority order, MVP definitions, roadmap tradeoffs, and what we stop doing, with executive input where investment, strategic direction, or material client commitments require alignment. You will be the escalation owner when client urgency, technical constraints, regulatory sensitivity, and commercial pressure collide. Your job is to surface tradeoffs early, make the case clearly, and drive decisions instead of allowing ambiguity to slow execution.

You will be measured on outcomes, including roadmap throughput and predictability, adoption of shipped capability, renewal health and churn-risk reduction, expansion contribution, reduction in services-heavy implementation patterns, the quality and defensibility of client-facing analysis, and the strength of RiskExec’s fair lending market position.

Cross-Functional & Executive Interfaces

You will work directly with executives and functional leaders, own the product narrative for your suite, and make sure the company understands where we are investing, why it matters, and what outcomes we expect. Key partnerships include the CEO and executive team (suite strategy and investment), the Chief Product Officer (portfolio alignment and product operating model), Engineering leadership (delivery commitments and technical tradeoffs), Sales (deal-critical roadmap questions and competitive positioning), Client Success and Support (adoption friction and renewal risk), Marketing (messaging accuracy, launch readiness, and market education), and regulatory and SME stakeholders (interpretation, defensibility, and accuracy).

Expect tension. The role requires balancing client urgency, regulatory nuance, engineering capacity, commercial opportunity, and long-term product coherence. Your job is not to absorb that tension quietly. Your job is to make it visible, structure it, and drive the organization to a decision.

Qualifications

Required

• Deep, applied Fair Lending expertise: direct experience conducting fair lending, fair servicing, or redlining analysis, supporting regulatory examinations, or advising financial institutions on these risks. Theoretical or coursework familiarity does not meet this bar.
• 10+ years of experience in fair lending compliance, regulatory analytics, advisory services, or adjacent operating roles, with clear ownership of outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex client engagements from scoping through delivery.
• Proven ability to translate domain knowledge, client workflows, and regulatory requirements into repeatable tools, methodologies, or software capability.
• Strong applied judgment: the ability to reason through ambiguous, real-world fair lending scenarios with both qualitative insight and quantitative grounding, and to build prioritization cases from data, client evidence, commercial logic, and risk-based tradeoffs.
• Executive-grade communication: concise, direct, structured, and comfortable defending tradeoffs with senior leaders and clients.

Product management experience is valuable and will accelerate your ramp, but it is the secondary requirement. We will invest in developing the product leadership craft. The domain expertise must arrive on day one.

Preferred

• Advisory or consulting background serving financial institutions on fair lending or adjacent regulatory matters.
• Hands-on experience conducting or advising fair lending analysis using compliance analytics platforms (RiskExec or comparable tools).
• A track record of thought leadership: publications, webinars, conference speaking, or industry education tied to fair lending or regulatory analytics.
• Experience in a PE-backed or high-accountability operating environment.
• Experience with AI-assisted analytics, automation, decision support, or workflow intelligence in regulated contexts.
• Familiarity with statistical testing, model governance, audit workflows, or regulatory examination processes.

Traits That Win at RiskExec

• Practitioner first: Has done the work, speaks from experience, and earns credibility with compliance professionals as a peer.
• High-accountability operator: Commits, ships, measures outcomes, and owns misses without excuses.
• Client reality-first: Understands actual workflows, decision context, data constraints, and audit pressure; does not build from anecdotes alone.
• Disciplined prioritizer: Protects focus, says no early, and understands that sequencing is strategy.
• Systems thinker: Sees the connections across onboarding, data quality, analytics assumptions, reporting outputs, client trust, and regulatory risk.
• Commercially fluent: Understands what drives renewals, expansion, differentiation, and willingness to pay.
• AI-native thinker: Looks for ways to use automation, intelligence, and workflow design to reduce manual effort, accelerate insight, and improve defensibility.
• Direct collaborator: Drives alignment quickly, escalates cleanly, and does not allow slow drift or unresolved ambiguity.

Why This Role Matters

Fair Lending, Fair Servicing, and Redlining sit at the center of client trust, regulatory scrutiny, and reputational risk. The institutions RiskExec serves need software that helps them move faster without sacrificing accuracy, ease of use, defensibility, or control. Increasingly, they also need a partner who understands the work itself.

This role will directly shape how RiskExec wins in one of its most important product areas. If you execute, you will improve roadmap velocity, increase adoption, deepen client relationships through applied expertise, strengthen retention, and create clearer differentiation in a crowded market. The mandate is significant: build products that clients trust, deliver expertise that clients value, and create a fair lending practice that executives can invest behind with confidence.

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