Manager, Fraud Strategy

About Bluevine

Bluevine is transforming small business banking with innovative solutions like checking, lending, and credit—all tailored to help entrepreneurs thrive. With best-in-class technology, advanced security, and a deep understanding of the small business community, we’re empowering entrepreneurs to grow with confidence.

Backed by leading investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, 83North, and Citi Ventures, we’ve been supporting SMBs since 2013, serving over 750,000 customers nationwide and growing a dynamic global team of 500 people. Our mission? To fuel small businesses with the financial tools they need to succeed.

At Bluevine, you’ll be part of a collaborative, fast-paced team that’s reshaping the future of banking. Ready to make an impact?

About the Role:

The Manager of Fraud Strategy will lead key strategic initiatives within the Risk organization, including but not limited to analyzing current and new technologies to prevent identity and first-party fraud, enhancing client acquisition and experience, and ensuring compliance alignment.  In addition to defining and owning the process for assessing risk based technologies, this role is responsible for driving the Risk organization toward defined objectives. This position will serve as the key strategic liaison between Risk and cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, and Data Science, translating fraud risk goals into actionable cross-team initiatives to ensure the continued protection of the firm. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead and grow a team of fraud strategy analysts, providing mentorship and setting clear performance goals with a focus on analytical and project management responsibilities. 
• Partner with key stakeholders to prioritize high-impact, risk and commercially driven deliverables using both quantitative and qualitative methods. 
• Develop and articulate ROI for strategic fraud initiatives (e.g., reduction in fraud losses, improved approval rates, or cost-efficiency via automation) to guide quarterly planning and prioritization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration by leading working sessions with critical stakeholders such as Product, R&D, Data Science and other departments to identify creative, operationally executable solutions to ongoing risks.  
• Balance trade-offs across strategic, technical, and operational needs, applying a strong risk-based decision-making approach to address high-priority issues.
• Monitor market trends, including common fraud patterns, new or changing regulatory environments, and new technologies to further improve the strategic framework.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in all fraud typologies, including account takeover (ATO), identity theft, synthetic identity, and first-party fraud, creating strategies and managing third-party vendor relationships to mitigate risks. 
• Present strategies and performance insights to senior leadership, aligning priorities across Risk, Product, and Operations.
• Own all fraud KPIs and performance metrics, including the development of monthly/weekly reporting and board level metrics. Assess existing metrics for accuracy and relevance.
• Partner with Compliance and Legal to ensure fraud strategies are aligned with applicable regulatory frameworks (e.g., KYC, AML, etc.).

WHAT WE LOOK FOR:

• 8+ years of applicable experience in a Fraud Risk strategy/analytics role within financial services, including 3+ years leading teams in analytics, operations, or risk; 5+ years of applicable experience with a Masters degree.
• Strong analytical skills and proven experience managing data driven teams.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with SQL, Python, and other analytical tools such as Tableau, Metabase, Looker, PowerBI. Demonstrable proficiency required. 
• 3+ years of experience in application and implementation of a variety of fraud strategies, including but not limited to identity theft, synthetic identity, first party fraud, and card fraud.
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science or equivalent
• Ability to think analytically, strategically, and operationally. 
• 2+ years of experience working with strategic partners such as product, R&D, finance, data science, and operations. A history of driving large and complex initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.

New Hire Base Salary Range: $121,000 - $148,200

This role is also eligible to earn annual performance-based incentive compensation in the form of a cash bonus.

Benefits & Perks (US Based ONLY)

• Excellent health coverage and life insurance benefits
• 401K with an immediate 3% company match 
• PTO, Company Holidays, and Flexible Holidays
• Company-sponsored Mental Health Benefits, including 1:1 therapy
• Over $1,000 annually for a wellness benefit of your choice
• Monthly WFH stipend
• Generous, paid parental leave covering up to 20 weeks of leave for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks of leave for all other parents
• Access to financial coaches and education sessions
• Weekly catered lunches and fully stocked kitchen pantries
• Community-based volunteering opportunities 

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