Fraud Strategist Expert (Fintech)

Location: Bogotá, Colombia — hybrid

Company

hirify.global is a Latin American fintech platform for corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and B2B payments, serving more than 50,000 businesses with a team of approximately 400 people.

What you will do

• Define and own global fraud detection strategies, methodologies, and standards across fraud vectors and regions.
• Evolve fraud detection infrastructure, including rule engines, machine learning models, risk signals, and case management tools.
• Lead AI and automation initiatives for alert triage, investigations, decision-making, and operational workflows using tools such as N8N.
• Develop capabilities for anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, intelligent alerts, automated rule optimization, and 24/7 fraud coverage.
• Anticipate emerging threats such as AI-enabled fraud, synthetic identities, deepfakes, and evolving attack patterns.
• Establish KPIs, model governance, monitoring, auditability, human oversight, and cross-regional fraud intelligence processes while partnering with Fraud Operations, Risk, Product, Engineering, and Data Science.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Fraud Strategy, Fraud Prevention, Risk Analytics, Fraud Detection, or related functions, ideally in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services.
• Strong expertise in fraud detection methodologies, rules-based strategies, risk signals, transaction monitoring, and automated decisioning frameworks.
• Experience with fraud detection platforms, rule engines, case management systems, or risk decisioning tools.
• Strong understanding of machine learning, AI-driven fraud detection, automation, model governance, explainability, risk controls, and human oversight.
• Strong analytical skills using SQL, Python, or similar tools to analyze fraud patterns and detection performance.
• Experience defining and monitoring KPIs including detection rates, false positives, automation coverage, and model effectiveness.
• Proven execution and ability to influence cross-functional and regional stakeholders without direct management authority.
• Adaptability, ownership, problem-solving skills, and ability to translate complex fraud challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
• Experience or strong interest in using AI tools to automate workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling fraud detection frameworks across multiple countries or business units, especially in Latin American fintech or financial services.
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered fraud detection, machine learning models, automated investigations, GenAI, LLMs, agentic workflows, or automation platforms.
• Experience with feature stores, model monitoring, anomaly detection, graph analytics, advanced risk decisioning, model validation, fairness assessments, or AI governance.
• Knowledge of card fraud, payment fraud, account takeover, identity fraud, synthetic identities, deepfakes, or AI-driven fraud schemes.
• Independent analytical skills using spreadsheets, SQL, or Python.
• A good sense of humor.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Bogotá with a high-ownership, low-ego, inclusive team focused on impact in Latin America.
• Competitive salary and stock options through ESOP from day one.
• Annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
• English is the working language, with Spanish and Portuguese used daily.
• Culture centered on clarity, simplicity, ownership, pride, adaptability, and inclusivity.