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US

  • Define and own the firm's risk framework, including position mapping, thesis hygiene, and exposure monitoring.
  • Perform daily book reads, flagging stale, contradictory, or mis-sized positions, and drive resolution.
  • Specify data and reporting needs for the tech team and deliver a daily decision-ready risk note.

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Europe Latin America

  • Design and own the risk framework across market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, operational and protocol risk.
  • Build models and analytics including VaR, scenario analysis and stress testing for traditional and digital positions.
  • Lead counterparty and venue due diligence, review risk terms in legal documents, and design operational risk controls.

Rootstock Capital builds a BTC-denominated investment fund that lets Bitcoin holders earn yield and manage credit risk. It is part of RootstockLabs, a global, diverse team building Bitcoin's financial infrastructure with a community culture.

US

  • Lead operational risk and responsible AI initiatives with data analytics and AI/LLM validation.
  • Partner with Risk, Technology, Compliance, Audit, and business to identify risks and practical solutions.
  • Support regulatory priorities, fraud prevention, and AI governance in a fully remote US role.

Global

  • Build and own daily liquidity reporting and data pipelines for accurate firm liquidity positions.
  • Develop intraday and longer-term stress testing, including Monte Carlo simulations and alerting frameworks.
  • Partner cross-functionally to support liquidity risk governance and regulatory compliance.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more. We are a diverse team of 400+ globally distributed members backed by $400 million in funding.

$90,750–$122,700/yr
Canada

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of Credit Risk Analysts, owning credit risk operations end-to-end.
  • Build AI-native credit risk frameworks and partner with Data Science and Risk Analytics on models.
  • Work cross-functionally to embed credit risk policies into fintech products and automate processes.

Jobber provides technology for small home service businesses to quote, schedule, invoice, and collect payments. With a culture of transparency and collaboration, the company has been recognized by Great Place to Work and Deloitte Canada.

$171,000–$202,000/yr
US

  • Define and own Engine's risk tolerance framework, including delinquency rate guardrails, fraud rate targets, and escalation thresholds.
  • Establish second-line governance and stand up the Risk Committee to keep leadership informed.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Legal to embed risk standards into the product and enable growth.

Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel, building the technology and supply behind modern business travel. Serving over 38,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, Engine is recognized as a best workplace for innovators.

$116,000–$216,000/yr
US

  • Lead end-to-end AI risk assessments and governance activities across business lines and risk functions.
  • Own business requirements and enhancements for the AI risk management workflow within an enterprise GRC platform.
  • Implement and align AI risk management frameworks to enterprise processes, controls, and reporting.

KeyBank is a financial services company providing banking and investment solutions. With over 200 years of history, it offers a flexible, inclusive work environment with supportive teammates and accessible leaders.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Define the risk signals, benchmarks, and reporting Brighterway delivers to claims and risk leadership.
  • Work with customers' risk and safety teams on loss analysis, trend identification, and program design.
  • Support RFP responses and customer reviews with risk analytics and program recommendations.

Brighterway builds AI-native claims software and administration for casualty claims, from workers' compensation medical-legal review to a full claims platform. The small, technical team is backed by Y Combinator and Maverick Ventures and sits close to customers.

$107,950–$146,050/yr
UK

  • Own the Controls Product Roadmap, defining vision and strategy for internal risk products.
  • Prototype and build automated workflows using SQL, Python, APIs, and low-code tools.
  • Champion AI adoption in risk management to transform manual controls into real-time intelligence.

Monzo is a digital bank on a mission to make money work for everyone, offering innovative banking, savings, investing, and pension products. With a decade of growth and a diverse, inclusive culture, they focus on solving problems and changing lives through financial technology.

$173,928–$245,773/yr
US

  • Own policy optimization for member credit limits, balancing retention, churn, and risk exposure.
  • Design, run, and evaluate policy experiments and A/B tests, translating results into concrete policy changes.
  • Own forecasting and reporting infrastructure that keeps risk and portfolio performance visible to stakeholders.

EarnIn builds products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for people living paycheck to paycheck, pioneering earned wage access. It has a fast-growing, diverse culture with an experienced leadership team and backing from top investors like A16Z.

$180,000–$200,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Build and own the first-line risk and control framework across MoonPay, including governance, assessments, and issue management.
  • Embed regulatory and supervisory expectations into practical controls for fiduciary, custody, and regulated financial services.
  • Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit to strengthen first-line ownership and scale the control environment.

MoonPay builds the operating system for value movement, enabling fund, tokenize, trade, and spend on crypto and tokenized assets. With 30M+ customers and 500+ partners, it is a high-velocity, AI-first culture for builders with a high bar.

$142,900–$160,700/yr
North America

  • Perform independent model validations and reviews across credit, fraud, BSA/AML, CECL, finance, liquidity, and pricing.
  • Assess model risk and materiality, maintain the model inventory, and review monitoring plans.
  • Partner with Data and AI Governance teams and support regulatory exams and Internal Audit reviews.

Mercury is a financial technology company that provides banking services through partner banks. The company is scaling rapidly and fosters a fast-moving, collaborative culture that values diversity and belonging.

Europe

  • Oversee credit portfolio performance, monitor losses, and optimize profitability.
  • Evaluate high-value merchant credit facilities at scale and automate monitoring.
  • Use SQL/Python for hands-on data analysis and present insights to stakeholders.

This is a mission-driven fintech focused on expanding access to innovative financial solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America. The company operates in a fast-paced, international environment with a startup-style culture that values ownership, autonomy, and collaboration.

$195,000–$213,000/yr
US 4w PTO 12w maternity 6w paternity

  • Own data infrastructure hands-on: pipelines, ETL/ELT, freshness, reliability, and cost.
  • Build trusted data layer with models, tests, observability, and metrics for self-serve use.
  • Lead as player-coach: grow a two-person team and ship an AI initiative quarterly.

Fundraise Up is a global fundraising platform that makes donating to nonprofits fast, seamless, and accessible. It powers tens of millions in monthly donations, serves leading nonprofits like UNICEF, and holds a 4.9/5 rating.

$101,473–$120,650/yr
UK

  • Provide ongoing oversight of credit risk across lending products and develop monitoring metrics.
  • Partner with first line teams to support credit strategy changes and new product launches.
  • Deliver deep insight and challenge on credit strategies using data-driven analysis and build strong stakeholder relationships.

Monzo is a digital bank on a mission to make money work for everyone, offering personal and business accounts, savings, investments, and credit cards. With a collaborative culture and a focus on diversity and inclusion, Monzo has grown significantly in the UK over the past 10 years.

US

  • Conduct ongoing financial and credit reviews on third parties to determine their financial health and the bank's exposure.
  • Assist in standing up exposure reporting, periodic metric monitoring, and partner reserve management.
  • Control test financial risk assessments and gather data from enterprise systems.

Pathward is a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. They celebrate differences and embrace a HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach.

APAC

  • Serve as primary risk point of contact for card issuer side risk, including BIN fraud, transaction monitoring, and lifecycle risk control.
  • Design and deploy ATO risk control strategies across login, device, transaction, and account-change scenarios.
  • Collaborate with data and engineering teams to implement and tune risk models and rules.

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume. Trusted by over 300 million users in 100+ countries, we are a remote-first, results-driven organization focused on increasing the freedom of money.

US

  • Own and scale payments risk management across Phoenix's growing portfolio of live merchants, monitoring transaction activity and emerging risks.
  • Investigate unusual patterns in transaction data, chargebacks, and fraud, independently driving investigations from signal to resolution.
  • Collaborate with Payments leadership and cross-functional teams to improve risk monitoring, mitigation strategies, and processes.

Phoenix is the Autonomous Commerce Platform for DTC founders, unifying storefronts, checkout, payments, and operations with AI agents. We're a fast-growing team with 8-figure ARR, backed by experienced operators and investors.

Latin America

  • Own and clean the data foundation: integrate external credit, bank, and tax data with engineering.
  • Develop underwriting criteria, credit limits, and portfolio monitoring using SQL and Python.
  • Build dashboards, early-warning signals, and collection insights to reduce losses.

Jeeves is a stablecoin-native banking platform for global enterprises offering cards, payments, and treasury. With thousands of customers across 35 countries and $400M+ funding, it's a high-growth, relentless culture.