Risk Operations Specialist | Underwriting

Ramp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 72,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial operations platform is seeking a Risk Operations Specialist to enhance underwriting and risk management processes. In this dynamic role, you will leverage data to analyze risk vectors and drive operational initiatives. With a commitment to customer financial health, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop cutting-edge risk tools. This position offers the opportunity to grow in a fast-paced startup environment, where your contributions will directly impact thousands of businesses. If you are passionate about risk management and eager to innovate, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

100% medical, dental & vision insurance

401k with employer match

Flexible PTO

Fertility HRA

WFH stipend

Wellness stipend

Parental Leave

Relocation support

Pet insurance

Qualifications

• 1-2 years experience in Underwriting or Risk Management.
• Strong background in customer support via email and phone.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute risk underwriting policy for onboarding new businesses.
• Build monitoring dashboards for underwriting outcomes and processes.

Skills

Underwriting

Credit Risk Management

Fraud Risk Management

Communication Skills

Critical Thinking

Education

BA/BS from an accredited university

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Risk Operations Specialist | Underwriting

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Base pay range

$72,700.00/yr - $111,100.00/yr

About Ramp

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 30,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $2B and 20M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $55 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

About The Role

As an early member of Ramp's Risk Strategy & Operations, you will drive operational initiatives related to underwriting, customer risk management, and fraud. This role requires an understanding of underwriting processes, fluency with data, and the ability to analyze risk vectors such as credit and fraud risks. We take our responsibility to serve our customers’ commitment to their financial health seriously, and our approach is anchored in data-driven and systematic decisions to delight our customers.

Weekend work is required for this role, with the flexibility to choose either Saturday or Sunday each week to support underwriting operations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute Ramp’s risk underwriting policy used to onboard new business to the Ramp platform across corporate credit card and bill pay products
• Build and maintain monitoring dashboards for underwriting outcomes, processes and losses
• Partner with product and engineering to build best in class risk tooling to increase operations efficiency
• Research emerging underwriting and fraud trends to innovate on Ramp's decisioning systems and policies
• Provide best in class customer experience, while managing credit and fraud risk, by effectively managing customer support requests on their application over phone and email
• Have the ability to grow, develop and learn in a fast-paced, start-up environment
  
  

What You Need

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in Underwriting, Credit Risk Management or Fraud Risk Management
• Experience within consumer/ corporate/ small business cards, payments, invoices, lending, or related industries
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong background in customer support via email
• Investigative and critical thinking skills
• BA/BS from an accredited university
  
  

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in high growth startups
• Experience building complex financial products
• Knowledge of SQL or Python
• Strong background in customer support via phone
  
  

Compensation

• For candidates located in NYC or SF, the pay range for this role is $80,800 - $111,100.
• For candidates located in all other locations, the pay range for this role is $72,700 - $100,000.
  
  

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• Partially covered for your dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Wellness stipend
• Parental Leave
• Relocation support to NYC or SF
• Pet insurance
  
  

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  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

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