Director, Risk

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $151k - $189k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🎲 Risk

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Alkami Technology

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏦 Banking

💰 $300M Post-IPO Debt - Alkami Technology on 2025-03

Consulting • Marketing • Banking

Alkami Technology is a digital banking software company that provides a cloud-based Digital Sales & Service Platform for banks and credit unions. Its platform combines onboarding and account opening (via MANTL), digital banking, and data & marketing solutions to enable anticipatory, data-driven customer experiences, faster account origination, fraud protection, payment reporting, and personalized marketing. Alkami serves financial institutions (retail and business customers) and offers integrations, developer tools, and implementation support to drive deposit growth, reduce churn, and improve operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• Lead and mature Alkami’s enterprise and technology risk management program • Lead risk identification, assessment, mitigation, acceptance, monitoring, reporting, and escalation • Provide strategic direction for risk frameworks, methodologies, metrics, and reporting • Apply ISO, COSO, NIST, COBIT, and applicable financial services frameworks and standards • Identify and monitor key risks against Alkami’s approved risk appetite • Support IT risk assessment, including threat identification and analysis • Develop and maintain IT risk and control assessments • Evaluate risk and control design and effectiveness with risk owners • Analyze risk ratings and control decisions, including mitigation, remediation, acceptance, and avoidance • Review monitoring and testing results and report on the adequacy and effectiveness of the risk and control environment • Promote risk awareness, accountability, and responsibility throughout Alkami • Lead the governance lifecycle for AI, machine learning, and generative-AI use cases • Develop AI governance policies, standards, review criteria, and control requirements • Evaluate AI-related risks involving data, privacy, information security, system behavior, third-party providers, regulatory obligations, and client/customer impact • Support the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance function with business continuity, disaster recovery, regulatory management, compliance advisory matters, incidents, and cross-functional initiatives as needed • Report directly to the Chief Compliance Officer

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s preferred, or equivalent combination of education and work experience • 15+ years of progressive experience in risk management, internal audit, compliance, IT audit/security risk, or related control functions • At least 5 years leading risk, control, compliance, or governance programs • Working knowledge of risk and control frameworks, standards, and regulatory expectations including NIST, SCF, ISO, COSO, COBIT, FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, CFPB, OCC, GLBA, SOC, and PCI DSS • Knowledge of IT security and privacy risk principles, technology controls, and emerging-technology risk • Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, or overseeing AI governance, AI risk management, or responsible-AI practices • Technical fluency in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI • Experience translating regulatory, risk, privacy, security, or control requirements into practical business, product, technology, platform, or process requirements • 10+ years of experience in banking, financial services, FinTech, or a regulated technology environment • One or more relevant certifications preferred, such as CRCM, CIA, CPA, CISA, CRMA, CRISC, CISSP, CISM, CBCP, CGRC, IAPP AIGP, or equivalent • Strategic and pragmatic risk leadership with sound judgment and strong follow-through • Ability to lead and facilitate risk and control discussions, challenge assumptions, clarify accountability, and drive decisions and remediations • Ability to serve as a subject matter expert in enterprise, technology, information security, privacy, and emerging-technology risk, including AI/ML and generative-AI risks • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Experience using GRC or related risk management tools, including Optro/AuditBoard or comparable platforms • Must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment; employment sponsorship is unavailable

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first environment • Unlimited paid time off • 401(k) with employer match • Diverse and inclusive environment • FUN culture