Fraud Strategy and Analytics

Location: New York City or Mexico City; 80% in office is required. Relocation support is available.

Salary: NYC $175,000–$250,000 USD base; CDMX compensation is adjusted for local cost of living. Competitive equity and bonus may be offered.

Company

hirify.global is a profitable Mexican fintech offering credit cards, buy-now-pay-later loans, bill payments, and a marketplace through a mobile-first financial platform.

What you will do

• Produce an independent assessment of hirify.global’s fraud surface within the first three weeks and define the resulting risk roadmap.
• Optimize high-precision login challenges and launch experiments to meet challenge-rate and precision goals.
• Reduce first-payment defaults in an acquisition-fraud segment while minimizing impact on approval rates.
• Establish a repeatable fraud operations system using manual case-review feedback loops, AI agents, human agents, or a combination.
• Deploy controls to cap currently unmitigated acquisition, transaction, and account-takeover risks.
• Lead live fraud incidents, guide incident response, and work closely with Risk, Engineering, and the founders.

Requirements

• At least two years managing fraud in technology or fintech, with ownership of a fraud area and production-deployed rules or models.
• Approximately five years of total experience are expected for the posted compensation range, although the role level and scope can flex.
• Advanced SQL comprehension, including the ability to understand SQL written by AI agents.
• Current meaningful experience working with AI agents and building self-improving feedback loops for agentic systems.
• Experience with financial services, especially first-party or acquisition fraud, and live fraud incident response.
• Professional English and working Spanish required.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with acquisition fraud and first-payment default reduction.
• Experience building fraud operations functions from the ground up.

Culture & Benefits

• 80% in-office work in New York City or Mexico City to support incident response and proximity to Risk and Engineering.
• Equity for all employees, with equity refreshers and a 10-year option expiration.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, with 50% coverage for dependents.
• 401(k) for US-based employees, unlimited PTO, and extended maternity and paternity leave.
• Lean, technical, experimentation-focused environment where AI is used in daily workflows.

Hiring process

• Conversation with the Hiring Manager.
• Case study and on-site interview.
• Reference and background check, followed by an offer.