Cardless

Cardless

Fraud Strategy Manager / Senior Manager (Onboarding)

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$210kDetected 111 days ago
SQLData ScienceCommunication

About the role

  • We've launched 14 credit cards, including for Coinbase, Alibaba, and Qatar Airways.
  • We help businesses bring imaginative card programs to life, and have pioneered technology to embed credit card features natively into their products.
  • We value curiosity, humility, and intensity - we move fast and take ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Build structured feedback loops between review outcomes and upstream rules triggers to drive continuous policy refinement.
  • Lead the strategy for incorporating bank account data into onboarding decisions, leveraging signals such as account tenure, balance history, income patterns, and return/NSF activity.
  • you ask the right questions, align stakeholders, and drive decisions forward.
  • ✈️ Team building events & happy hours

Requirements

  • 5-10 years of experience in fraud strategy, identity risk, or credit risk at a financial institution, fintech, or payments company.
  • Deep expertise in onboarding fraud - synthetic identities, identity manipulation, first-party fraud vectors, and deposit/funding fraud.
  • Hands-on experience with bank data providers in a fraud or credit risk context.
  • Familiarity with device intelligence and behavioral fraud platforms.

Skills

  • Conduct regular portfolio reviews to surface emerging fraud patterns, track loss trends, and assess detection performance.
  • Work with Compliance and Legal to ensure onboarding controls meet BSA/AML, Red Flags Rule, ECOA, and UDAAP requirements.

Compensation

  • This role has an annual starting salary range of $150,000 - $210,000 + equity + benefits (see below).
  • Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, and specific work location.

Benefits

  • We're proud to offer our team excellent benefits:
  • 💸 Meaningful Start-up equity
  • 🏥 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
  • ➕ 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
  • 🚎 $250/month Commuter benefit
  • 👶 Parental leave
  • 🌴 Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
  • we offer additional benefits to those who do, and relocation assistance to those who'd like to.

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