Senior Manager, Fraud & Payments Risk
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About Baselane
Baselane is a rapidly growing banking and financial management platform for individual landlords and real estate investors. We are backed by leading FinTech investors including Matrix Partners Activant Capital Collaborative Fund Conversion Capital Diagram Ventures ThomVest and many FinTech leaders from PayPal eBay Google and more.
We are building the future of financial services for the 12 million individual landlords and real estate investors who own over 25 million homes in the United States. Our mission is to empower landlords with financial services automated tools and actionable insights to help them save time increase their returns and grow their investment portfolios.
We are a seasoned team with deep experience in financial services and technology. We have previously worked at companies including The Boston Consulting Group Morgan Stanley Plaid Harrys Better WealthSimple RBC Ventures Affirm NorthOne Instawork and more.
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About the Role
Were hiring a Senior Manager Fraud & Payments Risk to lead Baselanes fraud function: owning fraud operations managing and developing the team and executing cross-functionally on the long-term strategic initiatives that will take our risk program to the next level.
Baselane is growing quickly and with that growth comes increasing complexity in the risks we face. Our current foundation is strong: solid processes built around our two major product lines - banking and rent collection. The opportunity ahead is to build on that foundation by increasing automation maturing our detection approach and scaling our team/processes with the business.
What Youll Do
- Directly lead Baselanes Fraud & Payments Risk team: own performance development and coaching for Baselanes current two Risk Specialists and one Risk Lead
- Operate as a player-coach: carry critical workstreams on complex investigations escalations and novel case types. Serve as a sounding board for the Lead and Specialists
- Drive the evolution of the fraud systems: own and execute on the major strategic initiatives that mature our risk program across detection tooling decisioning infrastructure and process scaling as the business grows
- Partner cross-functionally: work with Product Engineering and CX to translate fraud insights into durable controls and act as the champion of risk within the Baselane organization
- Own major fraud escalations: lead incident response on high-exposure cases ($50K) regulatory-adjacent situations and bank partner coordination; author post-mortems with clear root cause analysis and preventive action
- Manage the sponsor bank partnership: serve as Baselanes primary point of contact with our sponsor bank on fraud and risk program matters including program guideline alignment audits and ongoing collaboration across shared workstreams like KYC/KYB signals sanctions screening and transaction monitoring
What Were Looking For
- 10 years of relevant experience: in fraud payments risk or financial crime ideally with meaningful time at a fintech payments company or digital bank
- Start-up / fintech experience: youve operated in fast-moving resource-constrained environments where youve had to build prioritize and make calls without the safety net of a mature org behind you
- An experienced people manager: youve directly led fraud or risk teams ideally through periods of growth or scale at a start-up developed individual contributors into stronger operators and maintained a high execution bar
- Domain expertise: you can look at an ID a behavior pattern or a complex case and offer sharp experienced judgment
- Fluency in payment rails and regulatory frameworks: deep working knowledge of ACH (NACHA rules return codes) wire debit card and check fraud patterns along with the regulatory frameworks that govern them (Reg E Reg CC)
- A builder: youre energized by maturing and scaling a function from an early stage not just running what already exists
- Analytically rigorous: you ground decisions in data frame trade-offs clearly and are comfortable partnering with a lean data team to drive insights
- An operators mindset: you thrive in ambiguity move quickly but thoughtfully and build without needing the full playbook handed to you exactly the muscle a start-up environment demands
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with compliance signals that feed fraud decisions: OFAC PEP and adverse media screening
- Hands-on experience with modern fraud decisioning platforms (Taktile Sigma TLOxp or similar)
- Familiarity with real estate property management or rent payment fraud typologies
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership in what were building
- High-quality Medical Vision and Dental insurance
- Life Insurance and Disability coverage
- Generous paid time off and flexible hours
- Remote-first work environment with a home office stipend
- Regular social events
$140000 - $185000 a year
Base salary may vary depending on relevant experience skills location and business needs.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
About Company
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