Senior Director, Risk for Mexico

Location: Mexico City, Mexico; at least 3 days per week in the office

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Lead fraud prevention strategy advisory, oversight, client risk assessments, and strategic risk projects in the Mexican market.
• Own the market security roadmap and serve as the local liaison for enterprise risk, credit settlement risk, regulatory governance, payment fraud disruption, ecosystem risk, and crisis management.
• Partner with key clients to optimize fraud and authorization performance and promote risk management best practices and technical controls.
• Collaborate with internal teams to create safer payment processes and flows using hirify.globalNet and hirify.global Risk Solutions.
• Provide risk insights and recommendations across card-present and card-not-present channels, including regulatory, operational, and settlement risks.
• Lead client, internal, and external stakeholder relationships while coordinating cross-functional teams and reporting to the Regional Risk Officer.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of work experience with a bachelor's degree, 8 years with an advanced degree, or 3 years with a PhD; 12+ years of payment experience is preferred.
• Deep knowledge of the payments industry, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, credit risk, regulatory risk, and operational risk.
• Experience advising clients, managing direct staff, and coordinating multifunctional risk programs and initiatives.
• Proven ability to develop client engagement strategies, influence senior stakeholders, and lead complex cross-functional programs.
• Proficient written and spoken English and Spanish required.
• Availability to travel and represent the market during client visits and forums.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global, matrixed payments technology organization.
• Collaborate with diverse subject-matter experts and business teams across the organization.
• Represent hirify.global and the Mexican market in client forums and industry engagements.
• Hybrid work arrangement with office attendance expected at least three days per week.