Imprint

Imprint

Director, Risk Strategy & Execution

New York City · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
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About the role

  • Imprint is looking for a strategic leader to help define the future of our Risk organization.
  • This is a highly visible leadership role that sits at the intersection of business strategy, risk management, product, and technology.
  • The Risk organization spans Fraud, Credit, Collections, and Operational Risk across a rapidly growing portfolio of co-branded credit card programs.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with the Chief Risk Officer to define organizational strategy, long-term priorities, and execution plans across the Risk organization.
  • Lead strategic initiatives that span Fraud, Credit, Collections, Operational Risk, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Capital Markets, and Operations.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure risk initiatives are prioritized, well-defined, and effectively executed.
  • Develop frameworks that help leadership evaluate tradeoffs between customer experience, portfolio performance, operational complexity, and business growth.
  • Prepare executive presentations, board materials, strategic planning documents, and business reviews that clearly communicate the Risk organization's priorities and impact.
  • Serve as a connector across the business, ensuring Risk is a proactive, collaborative partner to teams across Imprint.
  • Experience partnering directly with senior executives to define strategy, drive organizational planning, and lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
  • Imprint welcomes talented individuals from all backgrounds who want to build the future of payments and rewards.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of financial services risk, including experience working with Fraud, Credit, Collections, Payments, Lending, or Operational Risk organizations.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and translate complex topics into compelling narratives.
  • Strong judgment and a track record of balancing customer experience, risk management, and commercial objectives when evaluating strategic decisions.

Nice to have

  • Experience in consumer lending, credit cards, payments, or another regulated financial services environment.
  • Experience leading strategic planning or organizational transformation initiatives within a rapidly growing company.
  • Familiarity with fraud prevention, underwriting, collections, portfolio management, or payments infrastructure.
  • Experience preparing executive and board-level communications.
  • MBA or equivalent experience in strategy consulting, business operations, or corporate strategy.
  • Why This Role Matters
  • As Director, Risk Strategy & Execution, you'll help define where the organization is going, align teams around the highest-impact opportunities, and ensure strategy translates into measurable outcomes.
  • Leading configured work computers of your choice

Compensation

  • In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
  • Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
  • 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
  • Define a clear 12-24 month strategic vision for the Risk organization, identifying the highest-impact opportunities and the critical problems to solve before prescribing solutions.

Company info

  • Imprint helps the world's best brands grow the lifetime value of their customers. We started with co-branded credit cards and rebuilt them to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first. We partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com http://Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth. But the card is just the beginning. We combine advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and deep customer data to create delightful and personalized experiences for members as well as efficient and profitable relationships for our brand partners. Our robust technology and world-class operations allow us and our brand partners to offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.
  • In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we're building a world-class team to redefine how people pay and how brands grow. If you want to move fast, solve hard problems, and own real outcomes, we want to meet you.
  • Imprint helps the world's best brands grow the lifetime value of their customers.
  • We started with co-branded credit cards and rebuilt them to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first.
  • We partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com http://Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth.
  • But the card is just the beginning.
  • We combine advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and deep customer data to create delightful and personalized experiences for members as well as efficient and profitable relationships for our brand partners.
  • Our robust technology and world-class operations allow us and our brand partners to offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.
  • In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems.
  • Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today.
  • Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we're building a world-class team to redefine how people pay and how brands grow.
  • If you want to move fast, solve hard problems, and own real outcomes, we want to meet you.
  • As Director, Risk Strategy & Execution, you will partner closely with the Chief Risk Officer to shape the long-term strategy, operating model, and execution of one of the company's most critical functions.
  • Improve how the Risk organization communicates its priorities, progress, and business impact across the company.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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