Payments Risk Leader (Fintech)

Location: Remote in Canada or the United States; this role is remote-first and not hybrid

Salary: $156,000–$253,500 USD annually; typical accomplished-stage salary is $185,300 USD

Company

hirify.global is a founder-led, high-growth SaaS company building products and tools used by healthcare and wellness clinics to run their businesses, care for patients, and grow their communities.

What you will do

• Own the operating system for payments risk, including people, processes, technology, and scalable risk-engine operations.
• Define merchant onboarding criteria, verification standards, exception handling, escalation paths, and ongoing merchant monitoring.
• Set transaction monitoring rules, risk flags, review processes, thresholds, decision-time targets, and false-positive controls.
• Develop dispute strategies, improve customer win rates, and help prevent disputes.
• Own portfolio loss reporting, approval rates, dispute metrics, budgeting inputs, and loss forecasting with Finance.
• Lead escalation, holds, offboarding decisions, and recommendations related to card-network and Stripe compliance obligations.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in payments risk, ideally in a leadership or highly cross-functional role.
• Experience with embedded payments at a software platform that carries liability.
• Expertise in acquiring, underwriting, chargebacks, and transaction monitoring.
• Experience with Stripe, particularly Stripe Connect, or a comparable payments platform.
• Ability to write practical risk policies, explain difficult decisions clearly, and identify fraud or deteriorating merchant risk.
• Comfort working independently while building a new risk function; SQL, Stripe Sigma, or similar reporting experience is a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience building reporting with SQL, Stripe Sigma, or comparable tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
• Annual compensation designed to grow with skills, experience, and contribution.
• Regular career development and compensation conversations.
• Comprehensive Canadian and US benefits packages.
• Fast-moving, collaborative environment focused on customer impact, adaptability, learning, and continuous improvement.