Senior Manager, Fraud Strategy, New Initiatives (Fintech)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; hybrid work with onsite attendance Tuesday through Thursday each week and additional onsite attendance as needed

Starting base salary: $160,000–$190,000 annually

Company

hirify.global provides secure financial services for customers sending, managing, and moving money globally.

What you will do

• Lead and develop technical program managers and fraud data analysts through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Own fraud control requirements for new products, payment methods, and customer origination channels from risk assessment through delivery, launch readiness, and ongoing maintenance.
• Partner with product, engineering, compliance, legal, operations, and analytics teams to design controls, experiments, and performance metrics.
• Assess integrations with shared fraud services, define requirements, and decide when to extend shared capabilities or build new solutions.
• Prioritize competing launches, communicate trade-offs, and provide risk recommendations to senior and executive leadership.
• Lead fraud incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation, including occasional work outside business hours.

Requirements

• 8+ years of strategic experience in fraud and risk, with a record of defining and delivering strategy that drives company-level outcomes.
• 3+ years of people-management experience.
• Direct experience designing fraud control requirements for new products, payment methods, or channel launches from risk assessment through control delivery.
• Deep expertise in fraud detection and prevention, including rule design, model implementation, tooling evaluation, and control lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience building with AI and using it collaboratively across a team.
• Experience evaluating technical proposals and analyses, working with fraud risk data, experiments, and operational metrics, and bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence without direct authority while communicating with engineering teams and executive leadership across global time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, risk management, a quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Background in payments, fintech, or remittance.
• Financial crimes certification such as CFE or CFCS.

Culture & Benefits

• Connected hybrid work culture with in-person collaboration and required onsite attendance three days per week.
• Flexible paid time off, paid parental, medical, military, and family care leave.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage with a 401(k) plan and company matching.
• Mental health and family-forming benefits, employee stock purchase plan, and continuing education.
• Equity is included in the total compensation plan.