As a Strategist on the Risk Foundations team, you will help manage a rapidly growing merchant portfolio by guiding credit strategy and devising growth-friendly solutions that reduce overall credit risk. This is a high impact role that involves cross-functional partnership with Data Science, Engineering, Product, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable methods to identify, measure, and control end-to-end risks (including Credit and Fraud) across the user lifecycle: this will involve identifying and shaping crucial risk management systems including in-product and back-end controls, use of external risk assessment tools, and implementation of rule-based and model-based detection systems
• Proactively identify risk management opportunities, outline the strategy and translate complex requirements into technical specifications, which may include shipping code to enable rapid iteration of risk strategy
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to shape new product offerings and develop data-driven, globally scalable systems and processes that combine strong risk management fundamentals with seamless user experiences.
• Become an expert on the global ecosystem of  products, integrations, tools, and partner requirements, and how those elements interact with payment risks
• Develop strong internal relationships across partner teams (Data Science, Product, Engineering, Treasury, Sales, Operations, and Finance)
• Challenge the payments industry status quo to help enable innovative businesses to flourish online

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience with financial risk modeling
• A builder’s mindset with a willingness to question assumptions and conventional wisdom
• Analytical: You are well versed in data analysis, modeling, and can frame business decisions and tradeoffs effectively through quantitative analysis and visualization
• Collaborative: Ability to work effectively across teams, building strong working relationships in order to successfully execute on shared deliverables
• Decisive, yet open to learning: you will make many critical decisions every day impacting large numbers of merchants. You are willing to make these difficult decisions and quickly learn and iterate from these experiences.
• Understanding and empathetic to the challenges of setting up a new business: You will thoughtfully balance scaled enforcement decisions with user experience.
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
• Experience with SQL required
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative or related field

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Python
• Demonstrated experience working in fast paced highly ambiguous environments
• Familiarity with LLM agents and how they can augment risk management practices

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