Senior Director, Risk and Underwriting – Payments/Fintech

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $225k / year

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NMI

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201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Fintech • Payments • SaaS

NMI is a leading global embedded payments enablement platform that provides a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for accepting and managing payments. Their platform is designed to support a variety of payment methods, including online, in-person, mobile, and self-service transactions. NMI offers flexible and feature-rich payment gateways, merchant relationship management solutions, and fraud defense tools. Serving independent sales organizations, banks, software developers, and payment facilitators, NMI helps its partners grow by simplifying the complexities of payment processing and offering a scalable and unified payments experience. With over 20 years of experience, NMI connects over 237,000 devices and processes over $200 billion in payment volumes annually. Their innovative approach and focus on flexibility and modularity make them a strategic partner in the evolving fintech landscape.

📋 Description

• Underwriting policy and execution across the combined portfolio: card merchants, A2A clients, ISO and ISV sub-merchant populations, and high-velocity onboarding programs. • This includes the mass onboarding and underwriting models that must support a step change in boarding velocity over the next two quarters. • Fraud monitoring, transaction monitoring alerts, ACH return-rate performance against NACHA thresholds, chargeback and dispute operations, and the KYC and KYB tooling stack, including vendor strategy across providers such as Verafin, Alloy, Middesk, and Socure alongside the card-side stack. • Reserve methodology and management, including reserve sizing, release decisions, and the financial exposure conversations that come with them. • You are the operating face of risk to our financial institution partners. • That means principal-level credibility with sponsor banks and ODFIs, participation in new banking relationship buildouts, and exam and audit readiness across BSA and AML, OFAC, state money transmission licensing, and network compliance. • You partner with the Compliance function, which sits within Legal, as a peer relationship. • Your first year includes a defining integration project: reconciling two risk frameworks, two underwriting cultures, and two banking arrangements from a recent acquisition into one coherent program. This is a core function of the role and a key measure of success.

🎯 Requirements

• You have built or scaled a risk and underwriting function inside a regulated payments business: an acquirer, payfac, processor, or A2A platform. • You are deep in either card or ACH risk and fluent in the other. • You have owned a sponsor bank or ODFI relationship as the accountable party, not as a participant. • You have managed reserves, navigated examinations, and made underwriting calls on businesses where the answer was not obvious. • Eight or more years of relevant experience, or equivalent operational depth. • You lead small senior teams and multiply them. • You communicate risk simply to people who do not live in it, including executives, bankers, and salespeople. • You are accountable for both portfolio outcomes and business growth, approaching risk decisions with the mindset of finding a responsible path to approval whenever the facts support it.

🏖️ Benefits

• A remote first culture! • Competitive compensation and benefits • Personal growth and advancement opportunities • Flex PTO & dedicated sick time • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance • Life, ADD, Short-term and Long-term Disability insurance • 401k matching up to 4% after two months of service • Flexible Spending Account • Paid Parental Leave • Company volunteer days • Employee referral program • Bonusly colleague recognition