Global Payments Risk Leader

Veem; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Veem is seeking a Head of Risk, Payments in the San Francisco Bay Area or Toronto to shape risk management, fraud prevention, and compliance as our products and reach evolve.

You will lead the strategic direction, build scalable risk frameworks, and partner across Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Data to protect customers and the business while enabling growth in global markets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of risk, compliance, or fraud experience in payments or fintech.
• Leadership experience across risk programs for payment products in a global company.

Responsibilities

• Set and lead risk, fraud, and compliance strategy for payment products and global operations.
• Build and improve risk frameworks, policies, controls, and escalation processes.
• Guide AML/CFT, sanctions, verification, and data privacy risk.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate risk controls into product design and flows.
• Use data and tech to strengthen risk detection and scalability.
• Advise on risk across cards, ACH, wires, and real-time payments.
• Support growth into new markets by addressing jurisdiction-specific risks.
• Evaluate and manage vendors (KYC, monitoring, fraud, sanctions).
• Collaborate with Operations, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Data to improve controls.
• Communicate risk priorities and trade-offs to senior leaders.

Skills

Risk management

Fraud prevention

Compliance

Leadership

Payments

Tools

KYC systems

AML monitoring

Job description

Veem is seeking a Head of Risk, Payments in the San Francisco Bay Area or Toronto to shape risk management, fraud prevention, and compliance as our products and reach evolve.

You will lead the strategic direction, build scalable risk frameworks, and partner across Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Data to protect customers and the business while enabling growth in global markets.