Fraud Risk Analyst

About Ramp

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.

Ramp's investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

As a member of Ramp's Fraud Strategy team, you will leverage data to develop and optimize fraud strategies, including underwriting (KYC/B, OFAC, fraud risk) and customer management (payment, transactions, account take-over) strategies. This role requires an understanding of fraud concepts & data sources, fluency with data, and the ability to drive a broad set of projects fairly independently. The role also requires the ability to work with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, operations, finance, marketing, sales, and design) to influence and execute risk strategies. 

You will be given significant ownership of your projects, with the freedom and autonomy to innovate and execute your ideas, empowering you to do your best work and make a meaningful impact. As you successfully drive impactful changes to our fraud prevention policies, you will be entrusted with larger projects and more strategic initiatives, expanding your influence within the company.

What You’ll Do

• Leverage external and internal performance data to come up with insights to develop best-in-class fraud policies (e.g. identity/first-party fraud, transaction fraud, account takeover fraud, KYC/B, etc.) that will create value for Ramp and its customers

• Deep dive into individual fraud events to perform root cause analyses, and combine the insights with a data-driven approach to develop fraud defenses

• Partner with product, engineering, and design teams to execute fraud policies and features

• Implement fraud risk metric monitoring by researching/resolving risk events, and developing levers that mitigate risk factors

• Partner with data scientists to build and leverage fraud risk models in Ramp’s risk policy

• Drive Ramp’s customer experience by diving deep into the flow of funds (repayments, chargebacks, etc.) 

• Research emerging underwriting and fraud trends to innovate on Ramp's decision systems and policies

What You Need

• Minimum 2 years of experience in fraud risk management or quantitative strategy role

• Minimum 2 years of experience using SQL, Python, or R for data retrieval and manipulation 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Haves

• Experience in high-growth startups

• Experience within consumer/corporate/small business cards, payments, invoices, lending, or related industries

Compensation

For candidates located in NYC or SF, the pay range for this role is $102,300 - $165,450

For candidates located in all other locations, the pay range for this role is $92,100 - $148,950.

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

  • Partially covered for your dependents

  • One Medical annual membership

• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)

• Flexible PTO

• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)

• WFH stipend to support your home office needs

• Wellness stipend

• Parental Leave

• Relocation support to NYC or SF

• Pet insurance

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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