Senior Product Manager, Risk

• Own and evolve the product roadmap for Transak's risk engine and fraud detection systems.
• Translate evolving fraud typologies into product requirements and technical capabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Compliance, Engineering, Data, and Operations to align on risk product vision and execution.
• Own metrics around fraud and chargebacks, false positives, and conversion rates.

• Work directly with data. Write and optimize DB queries, analyze incident trends, and monitor live risk signals.
• Define, track, and report key performance metrics including precision, recall, FPR/TPR, AUC, and latency benchmarks for detection models.
• Partner with risk engineers and analysts to design statistically sound experiments, calibrate thresholds, and evaluate detection effectiveness.

• Architect the full lifecycle of risk logic: rule management, model integration, case enrichment, and outcomes logging.
• Lead vendor selection and negotiations for third-party risk intelligence tools, behavioral analytics, and identity verification partners.

• Collaborate with Risk Operations to develop case management and alerting systems that maximize analyst efficiency.
• Prioritize internal tooling improvements that enable fast triage, investigation, and override workflows.
• Ensure all risk-related features are scalable, testable, and maintainable under real-world loads.

• 6-8+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 2 years in risk or fraud-related domains within fintech or crypto.
• Deep understanding of fraud vectors in crypto on/off ramps, payment processing, or financial infrastructure.
• Strong SQL skills; experience exploring raw datasets, building metrics dashboards, and validating system behavior independently.
• Solid foundation in statistics and ML evaluation metrics relevant to fraud detection.
• Proven track record of working with data scientists, risk engineers, and fraud ops teams to ship high-impact products.
• Experience working with or building rule engines, decision platforms, and/or real-time scoring systems.
• Prior exposure to compliance-oriented product design, including KYC/AML, transaction monitoring, and alerts review.

• Familiarity with tools such as Alloy, Sardine, Elliptic, Sift, or similar vendors.
• Background in scripting (Python etc.) for deeper data exploration or prototyping.
• Experience in user-facing risk UX like transaction friction, user appeals, or dynamic KYC workflows.
• Understanding of global regulatory environments impacting crypto or fintech fraud handling.

• Significant improvements in fraud prevention accuracy with minimal user friction.
• Streamlined analyst tooling that reduces time-to-decision and operational overhead.
• Successful launches of new risk capabilities and integrations with minimal false positives.
• Clearly defined risk KPIs that tie directly into business health and compliance posture.

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