Chargeback Team Lead

Wise; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 180 000 - 280 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

RSU’s in a rapidly growing company

Flexible working model

Annual self-development budget

Health and dental allowance

Company-paid Life Insurance

EAP program

Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “M

1 volunteer day, annually

6-week sabbatical after four years

8 weeks paid parental leave

Transportation vouchers

Food vouchers 730 BRL per month

Meal vouchers 1,188 BRL per month

TotalPass gym access

Resumo da oferta

Wise in São Paulo, Brazil, seeks a Card Disputes Team Lead to build and guide a high-performing team handling customer card fraud and non-fraud disputes and chargebacks under Visa and Mastercard rules.

You’ll own end-to-end operations, ensure timely, accurate outcomes, and balance speed with risk and cost while developing the team’s capabilities and resilience.

Qualificações

• You have proven experience leading and developing teams in a high-volume operational environment.
• You have practical knowledge of card fraud, card disputes and chargeback operations, with experience working with Visa and/or Mastercard scheme rules.
• You understand the end-to-end dispute lifecycle, including evidence requirements, reason codes, scheme deadlines and escalation stages.
• You can use SLAs, capacity, productivity, quality and customer-experience metrics to identify gaps and improve performance.
• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and can translate data and root-cause findings into clear actions.
• You can design and maintain effective operational controls while balancing customer outcomes, compliance, risk and efficiency.
• You are confident coaching specialists, giving actionable feedback, managing performance and supporting career development.
• You communicate clearly in English and can influence stakeholders across Operations, Product, Risk, Compliance and Fraud Prevention.
• You demonstrate sound judgement, adaptability and ownership, particularly when managing complex cases or operational incidents.
• You are customer-focused and can empower your team to make accurate, consistent and independent decisions.

Responsabilidades

• Hire, onboard, coach and develop the São Paulo Card Disputes team, building the knowledge and resilience needed to handle complex cases and periods of high demand.
• Own operational performance across SLAs and KPIs, including speed, quality, cost, productivity, rework and manual touch points per case.
• Manage queues and shift coverage to meet demand, handovers and unexpected volume changes.
• Build deep expertise across customer card fraud, non-fraud disputes and chargebacks.
• Ensure the team correctly applies Visa and Mastercard scheme requirements, dispute conditions, reason codes, evidence standards and applicable deadlines.
• Develop the team’s understanding of the end-to-end dispute lifecycle, including dispute eligibility, evidence collection, chargeback submission, representment or second-presentment review, pre-arbitration and arbitration where applicable.
• Establish consistent decision-making through quality calibrations, coaching, documented standards and effective QA/QC controls.
• Promote a “quality first at speed” operating model, reducing avoidable rework, unnecessary manual touch points, missed deadlines and customer harm.
• As the first escalation point for complex cases, operational incidents, tooling problems, process failures and volume spikes.
• Maintain clear process documentation, decision guidance, controls and escalation paths, ensuring important scheme or process changes are understood and consistently applied.
• Identify and deliver measurable process improvements that strengthen quality, speed, scalability and operational control.
• Work closely with Spend Risk, Risk and Controls, Product and Servicing Leadership.
• Collaborate with other Card Disputes leaders to align standards, share knowledge and coordinate operational changes.

Conhecimentos

Team leadership

Card disputes

Chargebacks

Visa/MC rules

KPIs & SLAs

Coaching

Stakeholder mgmt

English communication

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

As the Card Disputes Team Lead, you’ll build and lead a team responsible for investigating and resolving customer card fraud and non-fraud disputes and managing chargeback cases, primarily under Visa and Mastercard scheme rules.

You’ll own the team’s end-to-end operational performance and ensure customers receive accurate, fair and timely outcomes. You’ll balance speed, quality, customer experience, risk and cost while developing a high-performing and supportive team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Hire, onboard, coach and develop the São Paulo Card Disputes team, building the knowledge and resilience needed to handle complex cases and periods of high demand.

• Own operational performance across SLAs and KPIs, including speed, quality, cost, productivity, rework and manual touch points per case.

• Manage queues and shift coverage to meet demand, handovers and unexpected volume changes.

• Build deep expertise across customer card fraud, non-fraud disputes and chargebacks.

• Ensure the team correctly applies Visa and Mastercard scheme requirements, dispute conditions, reason codes, evidence standards and applicable deadlines.

• Develop the team’s understanding of the end-to-end dispute lifecycle, including dispute eligibility, evidence collection, chargeback submission, representment or second-presentment review, pre-arbitration and arbitration where applicable.

• Establish consistent decision-making through quality calibrations, coaching, documented standards and effective QA/QC controls.

• Promote a “quality first at speed” operating model, reducing avoidable rework, unnecessary manual touch points, missed deadlines and customer harm.

• Act as the first escalation point for complex cases, operational incidents, tooling problems, process failures and volume spikes.

• Maintain clear process documentation, decision guidance, controls and escalation paths, ensuring important scheme or process changes are understood and consistently applied.

• Identify and deliver measurable process improvements that strengthen quality, speed, scalability and operational control.

• Work closely with Spend Risk, Risk and Controls, Product and Servicing Leadership.

• Collaborate with other Card Disputes leaders to align standards, share knowledge and coordinate operational changes.

Qualifications

• You have proven experience leading and developing teams in a high-volume operational environment.

• You have practical knowledge of card fraud, card disputes and chargeback operations, with experience working with Visa and/or Mastercard scheme rules.

• You understand the end-to-end dispute lifecycle, including evidence requirements, reason codes, scheme deadlines and escalation stages.

• You can use SLAs, capacity, productivity, quality and customer-experience metrics to identify gaps and improve performance.

• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and can translate data and root-cause findings into clear actions.

• You can design and maintain effective operational controls while balancing customer outcomes, compliance, risk and efficiency.

• You are confident coaching specialists, giving actionable feedback, managing performance and supporting career development.

• You communicate clearly in English and can influence stakeholders across Operations, Product, Risk, Compliance and Fraud Prevention.

• You demonstrate sound judgement, adaptability and ownership, particularly when managing complex cases or operational incidents.

• You are customer-focused and can empower your team to make accurate, consistent and independent decisions.

Additional Information

This is a hybrid position located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and not fully remote (minimum 3 days at office). You must be able to commute to the office or open to relocation

• RSU’s in a rapidly growing company
• Flexible working model
• An annual self-development budget
• Health and dental allowance for you and your dependents
• Company-paid: Life Insurance, and an EAP program
• Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “Me” days + 1 volunteer day, annually
• A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
• 8-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us and child care assistance
• Transportation vouchers
• Food (730 BRL per month) and meal (1,188 BRL per month) vouchers
• TotalPass access to 3,500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil

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