Head of Fraud, Payments & Banking (Crypto)

Location: United States; remote

Annual target salary: $134.2K–$298.9K, excluding bonus, equity, wellness allowance, and other benefits.

Company

A global crypto and financial infrastructure platform offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services to individual and institutional clients.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end payments and banking fraud prevention strategy, roadmap, and OKRs across products.
• Build, lead, and mentor a multi-tiered organization of fraud analysts, investigators, and managers.
• Design and maintain fraud policies, rule frameworks, preventive controls, risk assessments, and governance processes.
• Oversee fraud detection systems, complex-case escalations, real-time alert queues, SLA and QA standards.
• Coordinate with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Legal, Customer Support, executives, and regulators.
• Direct fraud and payment KPI analysis and deliver daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly executive reporting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in banking, payment processing, or fraud risk management, including building or leading a fraud team.
• Experience managing strategic fraud and payments programs alongside high-volume analyst operations.
• Experience with card, third-party, and peer-to-peer payment fraud and relevant banking regulatory frameworks.
• Working knowledge of UK and other non-US regulatory regimes, including FCA and PSR; UK/EU regulatory experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong data analytics, reporting, communication, stakeholder influence, and operational team-scaling skills.
• A relevant bachelor's degree is preferred.

Nice to have

• Understanding of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and related fraud risks.
• Experience operating under or reporting to a UK or EU regulator.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement for the United States.
• Bonus program, equity program, wellness allowance, and other benefits for US employees.
• US benefits may include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly evolving crypto and financial infrastructure environment.
• Assessments may be included as part of the hiring process and are evaluated alongside experience and interviews.