HSBC
Vice President II - Product Governance
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Who is HSBC Innovation Banking?
HSBC Innovation Banking is the power behind the UK’s forward-thinkers, future-makers, and leap-takers, helping them ignite the bold ideas that reshape our world. We offer flexible banking solutions for start-ups, scale-ups, growth businesses, investors, and those working towards IPO typically within the technology and life science sectors.
We're proud to accelerate growth for our clients, create meaningful connections and communities, and open a world of global opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.
Here’s to never standing still. Come and join us!
The team you’ll work with:
The Product Management team sits within HSBC Innovation Banking UK's Commercial Organisation. The Commercial Organisation includes the Innovation Markets Team, the Treasury and Trade Solutions Team, the Proposition, Pricing & Enablement Team, the Marketing Team, the Product Management Teams, and the Corporate Communications Team.
The value you’ll add:
As a successful candidate for VP II – Product Governance Management, you are accountable for the end-to-end Product Governance Process (PGP) for HSBC Innovation Banking UK, ensuring robust, consistent, and regulator-ready governance across the full product lifecycle (new products, material changes, and decommissioning). You will set the governance strategy, standards, and operating model, chair/lead key governance forums, and provide executive-level oversight and challenge to ensure product outcomes meet Group, legal entity, and regulatory expectations.
You will act as the senior point of contact for product governance with 2LoD/3LoD and regulators (as required), and you will drive continuous improvement in control effectiveness, audit outcomes, and time-to-market.
What you can expect to be doing:
Leadership, Governance Strategy, and Outcomes
- PGP Leadership and Oversight
- Guide Product Managers to identify and deliver governance requirements for all roadmap items, ensuring appropriate oversight, timely decisions, and clear audit trails in line with PGP standards.
- Provide independent oversight and effective challenge for governance across all material initiatives, driving timely, well-evidenced decisions.
- Manage senior stakeholders across the Group (including HINV, HBUK, and HCIB) and partner closely with local governance teams.
- Hold 1st/2nd/3rd line stakeholders accountable to the agreed RACI and Terms of Reference; escalate to ExCo/appropriate forums where delivery or risk posture is compromised.
- Own readiness assessments for PGP milestones and provide formal sign-off/endorsement (or clearly confirm where final approval sits).
- Oversee day-to-day operation of the PGP, escalating as required to protect outcomes, controls, and timelines.
- Coordinate Product Managers and Risk Stewards on multi-product initiatives—align scope, sequencing, dependencies, and governance touchpoints; consolidate inputs and decisions.
- Review PGP artefacts for completeness and quality; challenge gaps and drive timely remediation; recommend go/no-go based on evidence quality, control completeness, and regulatory readiness.
- Escalate material issues, breaches, or delays via agreed governance routes.
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- Continuous Improvement
- Own PGP improvement—capture feedback, analyse cycle times/pain points, simplify and standardise artefacts, and implement enhancements while remaining policy-compliant.
- Maintain strong knowledge of relevant HSBC policies to keep PGP aligned to evolving requirements.
- Integrate risk and controls across financial and non-financial risk domains into the PGP design and operation.
- Establish communications and reporting (including a PGP dashboard) to track progress, ownership, and decisions.
Regulatory Horizon Scanning (Products)
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs to assess emerging product regulations, translate impacts to pipeline/existing products, and ensure timely engagement and escalation.
New Product Development
- Champion data-led, client-driven ideation and empower delivery from concept to launch.
- Maintain the product roadmap with product leads, aligned to HINV strategy, market/competitor trends, client demand, and innovation.
- Ensure product governance embeds robust financial and non-financial risk management.
- Oversee new product approvals and delivery of new features/platform changes, optimising collaboration with implementation and development teams to support successful launches.
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Requirements:
- Proven experience in owning product governance frameworks, change governance, regulatory change, risk management, or control frameworks within financial services.
- Demonstrated ability to chair senior cross-functional governance forums and deliver through complex milestones.
- Experience shaping and implementing strategy.
- Working knowledge of financial and non-financial risk domains.
- Experience interpreting regulatory developments and translating them into actionable product/process requirements.
- Track record of improving audit outcomes / control effectiveness and delivering measurable process improvements.
Where you’ll be based:
Our home office in Finsbury Square, London. We offer hybrid working to our employees, so you can flex between home and the office, with a current requirement to be in the office 2 days per week.
Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long-term conditions, or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com.
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