Head of Risk & Fraud
- Role
- Operations
- Experience
- C-Level
- Employment
- Full-time
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No BS summary
Trust & Safety/Fraud leader with 7+ years in risk, fraud operations, or T&S and 5+ years managing people. Must have built or scaled a marketplace-integrity function and be professionally fluent in English C1+. Remote role hiring in Colombia, CT time zone.
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This is a net-new leadership role for a peer-to-peer marketplace scaling fast, built to give Trust & Safety a real seat at the table instead of being a reactive cost center. You'll report straight to the COO and own the function end to end: fraud prevention, identity verification, investigations, and moderation. Success looks like a measurably safer platform within a year, fewer fraud losses, faster incident response, and a T&S team running on real workflows and automation instead of tribal knowledge.
What You'll Own
- Build and run the Trust & Safety operating model from the ground up: team structure, workflows, tooling, and the roadmap to scale it
- Drive down fraud losses and platform risk by defining and tracking the metrics that actually move the needle
- Translate marketplace threats into executive-ready reporting that gets budget and buy-in
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ship fraud detection, identity verification, and moderation tooling that delivers measurable results, not just features
- Own high-severity incident response, connecting Legal, Engineering, and Operations so investigations actually change policy and product
- Evaluate and manage vendor relationships for fraud and identity tools, owning the build-vs-buy calls
- Set the policy foundation with Legal, keeping it audit-ready and enforceable across the org
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years in Trust & Safety, Fraud Operations, or Risk Management
- 5+ years leading people, including managing other managers or senior ICs
- A track record of building or scaling a Trust & Safety, fraud, or marketplace-integrity function, not just running an existing one
- Proven ability to turn operational problems into systems and influence cross-functional roadmaps
- Experience reporting metrics and outcomes directly to executive stakeholders
- Background in a high-growth marketplace, platform, or consumer internet business
- Professional fluency in English, C1 minimum, written and spoken
Nice to Have
- Background in P2P marketplaces, rental platforms, or fintech
- Hands-on experience with identity verification or fraud tools like Jumio, LexisNexis, TransUnion, or IPQS
- Experience standing up AI or automation-driven workflows inside a T&S org
Tools and Stack Zendesk, Snowflake, Jira, Confluence, Slack, plus identity/fraud platforms like Jumio or IPQS
Details
- Location: Remote, Colombia
- Time Zone: CT
- Type: Full-time
About the Company An established, fast-scaling two-sided marketplace in flexible housing, connecting hundreds of thousands of property owners with renters needing month-plus stays. Profitable, over a decade in business, and recently recognized as a category leader in its space.
What you'll do
- Build and run the Trust & Safety operating model from the ground up: team structure, workflows, tooling, and the roadmap to scale it
- Drive down fraud losses and platform risk by defining and tracking the metrics that actually move the needle
- Translate marketplace threats into executive-ready reporting that gets budget and buy-in
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ship fraud detection, identity verification, and moderation tooling that delivers measurable results, not just features
- Own high-severity incident response, connecting Legal, Engineering, and Operations so investigations actually change policy and product
- Evaluate and manage vendor relationships for fraud and identity tools, owning the build-vs-buy calls
- Set the policy foundation with Legal, keeping it audit-ready and enforceable across the org
What they require
- 7+ years in Trust & Safety, Fraud Operations, or Risk Management
- 5+ years leading people, including managing other managers or senior ICs
- A track record of building or scaling a Trust & Safety, fraud, or marketplace-integrity function, not just running an existing one
- Proven ability to turn operational problems into systems and influence cross-functional roadmaps
- Experience reporting metrics and outcomes directly to executive stakeholders
- Background in a high-growth marketplace, platform, or consumer internet business
- Professional fluency in English, C1 minimum, written and spoken
- Preferred: Background in P2P marketplaces, rental platforms, or fintech
- Preferred: Experience standing up AI or automation-driven workflows inside a T&S org
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