Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead support @ IL / NJ / NY / CA

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Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead support

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Chicago, IL / San Francisco, CA / NYC, NY / Jesrsey City, NJ We are seeking a VP, Product Due Diligence & Risk Approval Lead to support execution and governance of product due diligence and risk approval processes for new and enhanced product launches. The role is responsible for driving disciplined execution of approval workflows and ensuring closure of all pre-go-live conditions. The candidate will coordinate across Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Technology, and Operations teams to ensure launch readiness. This position involves tracking approvals, dependencies, action items, and closure evidence through structured governance processes. The role will manage working sessions, governance checkpoints, decision logs, RAID logs, and approval dashboards. The candidate will ensure due diligence documentation is complete, accurate, and review-ready as per process standards. A strong focus on pre-go-live condition tracking, evidence validation, and approval attestation management is essential. The individual will proactively identify risks, escalate blockers, and support timely decision-making. The role requires preparing executive-level status updates, escalation materials, and concise progress reporting. Candidates should have strong expertise in cross-functional program execution and governance management. Experience in product approval, launch readiness, and risk/control processes within regulated environments is highly preferred. Proficiency in project tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence is desirable. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational discipline are critical for success. Coordinate end-to-end due diligence and risk approval activities across cross-functional teams. Track and drive closure of pre-go-live conditions, approvals, evidence collection, and validations. Maintain governance artifacts including workplans, RAID logs, decision logs, and approval dashboards. Facilitate working sessions, status reviews, and escalation discussions with stakeholders. Prepare executive-level reporting on risks, conditions progress, milestones, and approvals. Product governance and risk approval workflow tools. Jira and Confluence, Risk, issue, and dependency tracking frameworks, Governance dashboard and reporting tools, Documentation and evidence management systems, Workflow/process management tools, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for reporting and executive updates, Compliance and control process management systems.