Hybrid Director of Product – Fraud and Risk

at GoodLeap

• Job title: Director of Product – Fraud and Risk
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $230,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Director of Product leading the fraud and risk function for consumer products at GoodLeap. Architecting systems and controls that protect credit products while maintaining user experience.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the end-to-end fraud and risk product strategy across credit products, consumer payments, and the homeowner app, delivering strong protection without compromising experience.
• Own the roadmap for fraud detection and risk scoring systems, and partner closely with Engineering and Data Science to advance models, rules, and real-time defenses.
• Partner with Security to strengthen identity and account integrity, shaping product-side risk controls (KYC/KYB, device intelligence, behavioral signals) that mitigate synthetic IDs, ATO, and mule activity.
• Lead the strategy to prevent fraud-driven disputes and chargebacks by strengthening upstream controls, improving decisioning logic, and reducing opportunities for abuse before they reach Operations.
• Analyze fraud patterns, model performance, losses, and false positives, and make sharp, data-driven decisions that reduce fraud while preserving customer experience.
• Manage key vendor relationships and evaluate new technologies, signals, and platforms that can strengthen our fraud and risk defenses.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Legal to ensure fraud and risk systems meet regulatory requirements and are audit-ready.
• Communicate risks, trends, and mitigation plans to senior leadership with clarity, urgency, and high signal.

Requirements

• 10+ years of fraud, risk, identity, or trust & safety product experience in fintech, banking, lending, payments, or consumer finance.
• Proven success designing fraud/risk systems, working with DS/ML teams, and shipping high-impact risk products at scale.
• Deep understanding of fraud vectors (ATO, synthetic identities, mule accounts, friendly fraud, credit abuse, chargebacks).
• Experience with KYC/AML, sanctions, adverse media, dispute regulations, and compliance alignment.
• Strong analytical abilities, fluent with metrics, funnels, decision trees, and interpreting model outputs.
• Ability to lead teams, influence senior stakeholders, and make crisp tradeoffs between risk mitigation and growth.
• High-signal communication: clear, structured, authoritative.

Benefits

• In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.