Risk/Fraud Lead

About us

Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world, with over $10B in assets under management and a team of ~30, almost entirely technical staff. We’ve been profitable since day one and are focused on building real consumer financial applications.

We believe the future of finance is true on-chain banking. Our products — Stake, Liquid, and Cash — let users earn yield through DeFi strategies and spend their assets globally through our credit card program. You can view our growth publicly on Dune.

As we scale our financial products, maintaining world-class fraud/risk defense is core to protecting our users and the long-term health of our card program.

Position overview

We’re looking for a strategic and data-driven Fraud & Risk Lead to own end-to-end fraud operations for our global credit card program. This is a highly hands-on role with strong ownership: you will monitor fraud in real time, build and tune rules, stop card-testing attacks, manage disputes, run investigations, and define the operational processes that keep our card program safe.

You will collaborate closely with our engineering teams to improve card approval rates, reduce false positives, and build the fraud detection systems. You will also collaborate with the CX team to handle user-frictions related to fraud issues.

What you’ll do

• Build real-time fraud monitoring, alerts, and incident response
• Lead strategies to improve bad user/behavior detection and mitigation
• Detect and mitigate card testing, merchant abuse, friendly fraud, and BIN-level attacks
• Detect and prevent malicious behaviors of users within the ether.fi ecosystem
• Run deep root-cause analysis on fraud events and lead corrective action
• Write internal SOPs for investigations and operational/CX workflows

What we are looking for

• Passion for fraud/risk prevention and high ownership
• Exceptional analytical abilities, with a talent for identifying hidden patterns and trends within complex transaction data
• Strong domain expertise in card/payment fraud: card testing, merchant abuse, friendly fraud, BIN attacks
• Hands-on experience building and tuning fraud rules
• Practical programming skills to build tools and operate with assistance from Engineering teams
• Comfortable analyzing data using SQL
• Experience managing chargebacks and disputes end-to-end
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal skills a must, including the ability to explain and/or present analysis to drive cross-team decisions
• 6+ years experience in card fraud or risk operations

Plus if you have

• Worked at a fintech, neobank, or issuer processor
• Exposure to web3/crypto-related fraud patterns
• Exposure to consumer fraud patterns
• Built or scaled early-stage fraud operations teams

Perks and benefits

• Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
• Opportunity to own fraud defense for multi-billion dollar products
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Global team with opportunities for travel across our 3 offices
• 4 weeks work-from-anywhere
• Company events and team-building off-sites

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