Nuvei

Director, Fraud and Risk Products

Nuvei

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Establish and execute fraud risk and related products for merchants and core platforms covering ACH, card acquiring and various APMs.
  • Innovate on fraud capabilities to improve operations across technology, product, commercial, and merchant teams.
  • Oversee risk-as-a-service and fraud teams to deliver products and strategic insights.
  • Implement and continuously improve fraud detection technologies leveraging data science, machine learning, and generative AI.
  • Align with credit, underwriting, monitoring, and compliance to improve risk processes and controls.
  • Develop and execute comprehensive fraud & risk product strategy balancing loss reduction, user experience, and compliance.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, commercial, and merchant teams for seamless development and deployment of fraud solutions.
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of advanced fraud detection capabilities and pilot new features.
  • Implement rules engines, real-time scoring systems, and risk analytics platforms across payment channels.
  • Lead development and governance of ML models and GenAI applications for fraud detection.
  • Monitor industry fraud trends, adapt roadmap, and provide subject matter expertise to commercial teams.
  • Serve as subject matter expert, deliver training, and share best practices across teams.
  • Define and monitor KRIs, track performance metrics, and drive process and control improvements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in product management or risk product leadership, focusing on fraud prevention in payments.
  • Strong data science/machine learning background with hands-on experience in fraud modeling and large-scale analytics.
  • Experience implementing advanced ML models and Generative AI solutions for fraud detection.
  • Deep understanding of payments ecosystem and fraud vectors across card, ACH, and alternative methods.
  • Familiarity with modern fraud tech stacks: rule engines, real-time scoring, device fingerprinting, behavioral analytics.
  • Proven ability to define product strategy and execute complex initiatives full lifecycle.
  • Deep knowledge of payments ecosystem and relevant regulations (AML, PSD, NACHA, PCI-DSS).
  • Excellent communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
  • Strategic mindset with track record of anticipating fraud challenges and crafting long-term roadmaps.
  • English (written and spoken) required.