Fraud Strategy Lead – New Initiatives & AI

Remitly, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan

Paid parental leave

Mental Health & Family FormingBenefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Continuing education

Job summary

Remitly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Fraud Strategy, New Initiatives to lead a team responsible for defining fraud controls for new products and payment methods. You will partner with product, engineering, compliance, legal, and operations to design controls from risk assessment through launch and ongoing maintenance, while balancing risk and customer experience.

The role requires deep fraud expertise, strong leadership, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strategic experience in fraud and risk with a track record of defining and delivering strategy.
• At least 3 years of experience managing people.
• Direct experience designing fraud control requirements for new products or channels.
• Deep expertise in fraud detection and prevention, including rule design and model implementation.
• Hands-on experience building with AI and using it across a team.
• Comfort evaluating technical proposals and analyses with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional leadership across global time zones.
• Background in payments, fintech, or remittance is strongly preferred.
• CFE or CFCS certifications are a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in business, risk management, or quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of technical program managers and fraud data analysts, providing coaching, clear feedback, and career development.
• Own fraud control requirements for new initiatives from initial risk assessment through control delivery and maintenance.
• Work with product, engineering, compliance, legal, and operations teams early in planning of new products and payment methods.
• Act as the entry point for internal teams building on shared fraud services; define integration and control requirements.
• Prioritize the team's work across launches and partners, and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Partner with analytics to design experiments and evaluate control performance, and translate findings for leaders.
• Lead response to fraud incidents, including root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Communicate risk, trade-offs, and recommendations to executive leadership and participate in risk acceptance decisions.

Skills

Fraud strategy

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Fraud detection

AI in fraud

Risk assessment

Executive communication

Payments / fintech domain

Leadership influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Job description

Remitly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Fraud Strategy, New Initiatives to lead a team responsible for defining fraud controls for new products and payment methods. You will partner with product, engineering, compliance, legal, and operations to design controls from risk assessment through launch and ongoing maintenance, while balancing risk and customer experience.

The role requires deep fraud expertise, strong leadership, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced fintech environment.