Earnest

Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst

Earnest

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $124,000 - $155,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Design, develop, and optimize fraud strategies across personal loans and student loan refinance products
  • Monitor portfolio performance to identify emerging fraud trends, risks, and optimization opportunities
  • Develop and deploy fraud rules and strategies using segmentation, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling techniques
  • Own end-to-end fraud mitigation processes, with accountability for fraud loss reduction and performance outcomes
  • Design and execute A/B tests and champion/challenger frameworks to evaluate strategy effectiveness
  • Build and maintain scalable analytical frameworks using tools such as Snowflake and dbt
  • Develop dashboards and reporting (e.g., Looker) to monitor KPIs such as fraud rate, approval rate, and false positives
  • Generate actionable insights from structured and unstructured datasets, including limited or noisy data environments
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Risk, Operations) and external vendors to implement fraud solutions
  • Leverage internal and third-party data to enhance fraud detection capabilities
  • Continuously evaluate and refine strategies based on performance metrics and evolving fraud patterns
  • Communicate insights, strategy performance, and model behavior clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership
  • Support model development lifecycle, including design, validation, and production deployment

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Engineering, Analytics, Economics); Master’s preferred
  • 4+ years of experience in fraud risk, credit risk, or customer risk management within a financial institution or fintech
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with SQL, Python, or R for data analysis and modeling
  • 3+ Proven experience designing and implementing fraud strategies for unsecured lending products (e.g., personal loans)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
  • Effective communicator with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders
  • Self-starter with a high degree of ownership, curiosity, and adaptability
Benefits
  • Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
  • Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
  • Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
  • Robust tuition reimbursement program
  • $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
  • Competitive days of annual PTO
  • Competitive parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
fraud strategiesstatistical analysispredictive modelingA/B testingdata analysisSQLPythonRdashboard developmentanalytical frameworks
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingattention to detailcommunicationinfluencingownershipcuriosityadaptability