Director, Payments & Fraud Risk

📋 Description

• Develop your own point of view on risk strategy and collaborate with VP of Payments to shape roadmap
• Define risk coverage for new capabilities ahead of launch, design controls and monitoring, and set
• Evolve risk appetite and control frameworks, know when to tighten and when to give room
• Proactively look for how risk can increase customer value and drive business growth
• Run day-to-day: own team's queue and escalation workflow, make calls on cases not in playbook
• Get hands-on: tune rules, review cases, treat false positives and missed catches as signal

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in payments and/or fintech, including 3+ years leading teams
• Deep, hands-on command of payments stack (onboarding, underwriting, processing, settlement
• Strong Stripe fundamentals or comparable infrastructure; embedded payments experience
• Track record in fraud and risk - building or running detection, monitoring, and controls
• Commercially minded - understand how risk decisions affect growth
• Automation-first - have stood up new processes or products, treat AI as force multiplier

🎁 Benefits

• Equity
• Remote work
• Salary range: CAD $170K – $200K (Canada) or USD $160K – $190K (US) plus equity