[pas]

If compliance affects any user-facing property of the product, then they are, by definition.

Onboarding users/partners would be easier without making them read/click all those consent checkboxes, etc.

[tptacek]

That's like saying everybody in a product company is a product person. No, it really doesn't work that way, at least not in general.

[irjustin]

The simplest test is "who are you defending"?

Ideally, product people defend the end users. Realistically, compliance people defend the company from getting screwed in an audit and ultimately sued by the government.