Director, Payments Risk
Core
Lead payments risk strategy, operations, and automation to balance fraud prevention, operational resilience, and sustainable business growth in a scaling fintech environment.
Role type
Director, Payments Risk (Strategic Leadership + Hands-on Operations)
Builds
Payments infrastructure, fraud detection systems, risk controls, and automated risk operations tooling
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Risk Management
Required skills
Payments lifecycle expertise, fraud detection, risk strategy, team leadership, automation/AI, stakeholder management, commercial acumen, incident management, data analysis, systems thinking
Preferred skills
Experience with Stripe or comparable payments infrastructure, building risk reporting dashboards, AI-enabled tooling implementation
Technologies
AI, automation tools, payments infrastructure, risk monitoring systems
Responsibilities
Develop and evolve payments risk strategy and roadmap; Define risk coverage for new products; Maintain risk appetite and control frameworks; Lead day-to-day risk operations and complex case decisions; Monitor fraud patterns and tune rules; Establish incident-readiness frameworks; Partner with Product/Engineering/Finance/Data to integrate risk requirements; Monitor portfolio-level losses and provide risk perspectives; Drive automation and AI-enabled tooling; Lead, coach, and develop the Risk team.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on operational execution