The Opportunity:
As the Director of Product Risk & Fraud Platform you are the product leader for Flywires defensive ecosystem. You serve as the strategic product counterpart to our Business Risk Directors. While they define the what (risk policies and appetites) you build the how leveraging machine learning real-time data pipelines and third-party integrations to automate fraud detection and credit monitoring.
Your goal is to eliminate manual touch wherever possible creating a frictionless payer experience that is simultaneously ironclad against sophisticated global threats.
What Youll Do
- Platform Vision: Define and execute the roadmap for a unified Risk & Fraud engine that supports Flywires MOR & PayFac modalities across our global merchant base.
- Automated Underwriting & Scoring: Partner with the Director of Credit Risk to translate manual due diligence into automated credit-scoring models. Build the tools that allow for real-time account monitoring and Early Warning Systems.
- Intelligent Fraud Decisioning: Partner with the Director of Fraud Risk to build real-time rule engines and ML-driven decisioning. You will own the integration of biometric behavioral and 3DS tools into the checkout flow.
- Internal Tooling: Build the War Room dashboard. Design the internal interfaces that our Risk Operations teams use to investigate alerts manage cases and orchestrate rapid remediation during high-stakes fraud events.
- Data Architecture: Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to ensure our risk models have access to the richest cleanest global payment data possible. You will own the Precision/Recall product metrics for our automated systems.
- Scalable Compliance: Work with localized payment methods to ensure our risk controls meet regional regulatory requirements without adding unnecessary friction.
Qualifications :
Heres what were looking for:
- The Product Visionary: 10 years of Product Management experience with at least 5 years specifically focused on Risk Fraud or Identity in a Fintech/Payments environment.
- The Platform Orchestrator: You understand the plumbing of a payment platform. You can translate complex business requirements into product execution regarding API latency webhook reliability and feature engineering for ML models.
- Strategic Counterpart: You know how to bridge the gap between Business Risk (Underwriting Collections Fraud Analysis) and scalable product requirements.
- Experience-First Mindset: You believe that security should be invisible. You are obsessed with reducing false positives that block legitimate students or travelers.
- Data Native: You dont just look at reports; you query the data. You are comfortable using SQL or Python to validate your product hypotheses.
- Calm Under Pressure: In the event of a sophisticated attack you are the product lead who understands how to tweak platform rules instantly to stop the bleed.
Additional Information :
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
- Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health Wellness Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in your community and Digital Disconnect Days!
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight for new or aspiring managers!)
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager and other Flymates. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for questions.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 12 different offices and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset and were excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $190000 - $230000 plus bonus and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role position level and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors including job-related skills experience relevant education and training.
#LI-Hybrid
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
The Opportunity:As the Director of Product Risk & Fraud Platform you are the product leader for Flywires defensive ecosystem. You serve as the strategic product counterpart to our Business Risk Directors. While they define the what (risk policies and appetites) you build the how leveraging machine l...
The Opportunity:
As the Director of Product Risk & Fraud Platform you are the product leader for Flywires defensive ecosystem. You serve as the strategic product counterpart to our Business Risk Directors. While they define the what (risk policies and appetites) you build the how leveraging machine learning real-time data pipelines and third-party integrations to automate fraud detection and credit monitoring.
Your goal is to eliminate manual touch wherever possible creating a frictionless payer experience that is simultaneously ironclad against sophisticated global threats.
What Youll Do
- Platform Vision: Define and execute the roadmap for a unified Risk & Fraud engine that supports Flywires MOR & PayFac modalities across our global merchant base.
- Automated Underwriting & Scoring: Partner with the Director of Credit Risk to translate manual due diligence into automated credit-scoring models. Build the tools that allow for real-time account monitoring and Early Warning Systems.
- Intelligent Fraud Decisioning: Partner with the Director of Fraud Risk to build real-time rule engines and ML-driven decisioning. You will own the integration of biometric behavioral and 3DS tools into the checkout flow.
- Internal Tooling: Build the War Room dashboard. Design the internal interfaces that our Risk Operations teams use to investigate alerts manage cases and orchestrate rapid remediation during high-stakes fraud events.
- Data Architecture: Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to ensure our risk models have access to the richest cleanest global payment data possible. You will own the Precision/Recall product metrics for our automated systems.
- Scalable Compliance: Work with localized payment methods to ensure our risk controls meet regional regulatory requirements without adding unnecessary friction.
Qualifications :
Heres what were looking for:
- The Product Visionary: 10 years of Product Management experience with at least 5 years specifically focused on Risk Fraud or Identity in a Fintech/Payments environment.
- The Platform Orchestrator: You understand the plumbing of a payment platform. You can translate complex business requirements into product execution regarding API latency webhook reliability and feature engineering for ML models.
- Strategic Counterpart: You know how to bridge the gap between Business Risk (Underwriting Collections Fraud Analysis) and scalable product requirements.
- Experience-First Mindset: You believe that security should be invisible. You are obsessed with reducing false positives that block legitimate students or travelers.
- Data Native: You dont just look at reports; you query the data. You are comfortable using SQL or Python to validate your product hypotheses.
- Calm Under Pressure: In the event of a sophisticated attack you are the product lead who understands how to tweak platform rules instantly to stop the bleed.
Additional Information :
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
- Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health Wellness Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in your community and Digital Disconnect Days!
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight for new or aspiring managers!)
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager and other Flymates. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for questions.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 12 different offices and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset and were excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $190000 - $230000 plus bonus and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role position level and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors including job-related skills experience relevant education and training.
#LI-Hybrid
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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