Protect a hyper-growth fintech from AI-enabled threats by building a robust fraud function. Design and implement a threat detection system, controls, and intelligence loops. Work with founders who value experimentation and paranoia.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
🛡️ Fraud Risk Manager – Stop Attacks Before They Start. Build a Fraud Function That Can Outrun AI-Enabled Threats.
NYC | 80% Onsite
Up to $215k
Fraud today doesn’t look like it did five years ago. It’s faster, smarter, more coordinated, and increasingly automated. Most companies are playing catch-up.
This one isn’t — and they’re hiring someone who refuses to be outsmarted.
A high-growth, profitable consumer lending fintech is searching for a Fraud Risk Manager who can think like an attacker, operate like a strategist, and execute like an owner. You will be the company’s first line of defence against programmatic acquisition and transactional fraud, with full autonomy to redesign the entire fraud posture.
This is not a legacy fraud ops job. This is a chance to build the fraud strategy of a rapidly scaling business — from threat detection to controls to intelligence loops — with founders who thrive on experimentation, embrace productive paranoia, and move at a pace most teams can’t keep up with
What you’ll be responsible for
In your first months, you will:
- Deliver an independent fraud threat assessment within 3 weeks
- Launch experiments to reduce FPD with minimal approval-rate impact
- Hard-cap any vectors currently open to catastrophic, automated fraud attacks
- Build a repeatable fraud intelligence system using a blend of humans + AI
This is the #1 risk hire for the company — your work will directly protect revenue, portfolio stability, and customer experience.
Who excels here
Ideal candidates come from:
- LATAM consumer lending fraud teams (or are fluent in Spanish)
- High-velocity fintechs with first payment default & programmatic fraud exposure
- Fraud & risk strategy orgs at scale (e.g., Amex, Nubank, MercadoLibre, Stori, Klar, Kueski)
You’ll thrive here if you:
- Are fluent in Spanish or have deep LATAM fraud experience
- Write SQL in your sleep
- Enjoy building systems even when infrastructure isn’t perfect
- Think several moves ahead of fraud rings
- Can influence founders and senior operators with evidence, clarity, and urgency
- Sweat the details, move fast, and refuse to accept “this is how we’ve always done it”
Why this team
You’ll join a company:
- With ~$70M ARR and strong profitability
- Growing double-digits monthly
- With a technical, bar-raising team and founders who built a lending engine using Uber-style experimentation culture
- Backed by top-tier investors
- That values paranoia, creativity, and operational excellence in fraud
This is a rare chance to write the playbook, not follow one.
Compensation
- NYC: $165K–$215K base + equity
- Full medical/dental/vision, parental leave, relocation support
If you want to build a fraud function that can keep pace with AI-enabled attackers — and protect a hyper-growth fintech at the moments it needs it most — send me a message.