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Analytics Lead, Deposit Fraud Risk

Affirm · Remote US · Remote

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About Affirm

Buy now pay later without the fees. Flexible payment options with longer plans, lower payments, and no fees. Pay in 4 interest-free or get more time and see your total cost upfront. Backed by Battery, Khosla and Lightspeed.

About the role

This role will take charge of owning fraud performance for depository products, including monitoring fraud losses, approval rates, false positives, customer friction, and other key risk metrics Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Build and maintain scalable data models and transformation pipelines, using tools (such as DBT) to standardize depository product, transaction, customer, fraud, and operational data
  • Define trusted fraud performance metrics and analytical datasets, including fraud loss rates, approval and decline rates, false-positive rates, customer friction, and operational efficiency
  • Develop recurring dashboards, scorecards, and monitoring frameworks to provide clear visibility into fraud performance, portfolio health, and emerging risks
  • Conduct deep-dive analyses to diagnose fraud losses, control gaps, false positives, portfolio shifts, and unexpected performance changes, translating findings into actionable recommendations
  • Develop and optimize fraud rules, policies, thresholds, models, and decision strategies that balance loss prevention, customer experience, operational capacity, and product growth
  • Evaluate new data sources and signals to improve detection of identity risk, account takeover, device risk, transaction risk, and other fraud typologies relevant to depository products
More about this role

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Fraud team at Affirm Bank works cross-functionally with Machine Learning, Product, Engineering, Operations to combat fraudulent activities to foster a safe platform.

This role requires abundant cross-functional partnership. This individual will be the representative of the Credit Risk org, leading the charge on refining our Identity Verification and Fraud processes as well as our Application flow. Additionally, this role will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams to improve our Fraud solution.

Come join us in our mission to change consumer finance through better technology, lower costs, and increased transparency while providing the best customer experience.

This role will take charge of owning fraud performance for depository products, including monitoring fraud losses, approval rates, false positives, customer friction, and other key risk metrics

  • Build and maintain scalable data models and transformation pipelines, using tools (such as DBT) to standardize depository product,...

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