About Us Hawk is the leading provider of AI-supported anti-money laundering and fraud detection technology. Banks and payment providers globally are using Hawk’s powerful combination of traditional rules and explainable AI to improve the effectiveness of their AML compliance and fraud prevention by identifying more crime while maximizing efficiency by reducing false positives. With our solution, we are playing a vital role in the global fight against Money Laundering, Fraud, or the financing of terrorism. We offer a culture of mutual trust, support and passion – while providing individuals with opportunities to grow professionally and make a difference in the world.

Your Mission As Head of Product - Platform at Hawk, you’ll take ownership of the long-term product strategy and roadmap for our platform that is supporting our 3 solution P&Ls (Screening, AML & Fraud). You are responsible for the question "Are we building the right foundation so our teams can build faster, more reliably and stable and is secure & scalable for our customers?" which entails product oversight & management of platforms infrastructure and overarching platform services — ensuring that Hawk’s platform is positioned for scale. Working closely with the VP Platform Engineering and the wider tech, product & customer facing leadership team, you will bridge technology and business needs: aligning customer needs, technical capabilities, and commercial strategy.

Your Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term platform product vision and roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Oversee and manage both product infrastructure and overarching platform services
• Productize and create blueprints & processes around deployment & cloud hosting options including it’s SLAs, reporting, documentation for our global SaaS as well as our private cloud deployments

Your Profile

• Significant experience in product leadership for SaaS platforms, ideally in high-scale or enterprise contexts
• Proven track record defining roadmaps, SLAs, deployment strategies, and enterprise-ready processes
• Strong technical understanding of microservices architectures, Kubernetes, databases, data lakes, BI/reporting, and APIs
• Experience working with high-throughput, low-latency systems (e.g., payments or other critical transaction-heavy industries)
• Skilled at bridging technical, customer, and commercial perspectives into clear product strategies