Director, Payments Risk

. Develop payments risk strategy and roadmap with the VP of Payments .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • Canada, United StatesLead💰 CA$170,000 - CA$190,000 per yearWebsite

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop payments risk strategy and roadmap with the VP of Payments
Define risk coverage, controls, monitoring, and success criteria for new capabilities
Evolve risk appetite and control frameworks
Run day-to-day risk execution, queue management, escalations, and uncovered cases
Tune rules and review cases as risk patterns shift
Build and maintain incident-readiness playbooks, escalation paths, and decision frameworks
Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data on requirements, dashboards, and reporting
Track portfolio-level losses and provide risk perspectives for forecasting, business cases, launches, pricing, and partner decisions
Champion payments risk across non-specialist teams
Design scalable AI and tooling solutions
Develop, coach, and build capability within the Risk team

What you’ll need

8+ years in payments and/or fintech
3+ years leading teams and owning outcomes
Deep hands-on command of onboarding, underwriting, processing, settlement, reconciliation, and disputes
Strong Stripe fundamentals or comparable infrastructure experience
Experience building or running fraud detection, monitoring, and controls
Ability to balance loss prevention with customer experience and growth
Commercial understanding of how risk decisions affect growth
Experience building reporting for leadership decision-making
Experience standing up new processes or products
Automation-first mindset with AI and tooling
High autonomy, sound judgment, and meticulous attention to detail
Ability to communicate payments and risk complexity to non-specialist teams

Comp & perks