Risk Lead (Remote)

Remote

Our mission is to make payments safer and easier for everyone. We started with a consumer product (privacy.com) that helps people spend more safely using virtual payment cards. Then we launched a simple, modern API to make our payment and card issuing infrastructure available to other startups, fintechs, and brands. Today, that infrastructure is known as Lithic, and it powers billions of dollars in payments for some of the most innovative companies in the world.

Lithic is a remote-first company and has a distributed team with an office in New York. That means that if you want to work remotely, you can! If you want to drop by the office or work fully in-person, you can do that, too! We’ve raised $100M+ from top-tier investors including Index, Bessemer, Stripes, and Tusk Venture Partners, with a recent Series C that will help us scale.

Lithic is hiring a Risk Lead to work closely with the rest of Risk and our stakeholders to shape the processes, strategy, and structure of the team and the work that we do. Ideal candidates will have a track record of delivering high-impact strategic work and rolling up your sleeves, while empowering a team to deliver results.

Job responsibilities: 

• Devise new systems, processes, and strategies for managing risk in many forms, always with an eye for enabling scale and improving user experience
• Design, hire, and manage a nascent team that sits at an important cross-functional nexus within the company
• Build relationships with our customer-facing teams (and occasionally our customers themselves) to best inform our approach to managing risk in a way that enables prudent growth
• Shape the processes and policies across the team’s entire footprint of ownership from customer onboarding, to credit underwriting and fraud prevention

Qualifications: 

• Experience in Risk, Fraud, Trust and Safety, or another domain that blends operational and analytical work and has a measurable impact on the company's success
• A strong track record of building relationships across the organization and executing on cross-functional projects
• Sharp analytical skills, strong SQL abilities, and a comfort working with data to drive decision-making.
• Self-awareness and humility, with the ability to balance when to think from first principles, when to lean on your experience when approaching a problem, and when to turn to others for help
• Comfort with ambiguity and working in an unstructured environment
• Experience managing and growing high-performing teams

Salary: $125,000 - $176,000

Benefits: 

• Health, vision, and dental insurance 
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match 
• Life Insurance and AD&D policy 
• 3% cashback on all Privacy purchases
• Remote-first