This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Payments Risk based in Canada.This role offers the opportunity to lead payments risk strategy within a rapidly scaling payments and fintech setting. You will own the risk agenda, balancing fraud prevention, operational resilience, customer experience, and sustainable business growth. Reporting to the VP of Payments, you will shape the people, processes, controls, and technology that support responsible payments expansion. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on involvement in complex risk decisions, incidents, and operational execution. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data teams to embed risk considerations into business and product decisions. As an autonomous and systems-minded leader, you will also drive automation and develop a high-performing risk organization.ResponsibilitiesDevelop and evolve the payments risk strategy, identifying the most significant risks, defining priorities,



and translating the overall risk agenda into a practical roadmap.Define risk coverage for new products and capabilities by identifying emerging risks, designing controls and monitoring mechanisms, and establishing appropriate success criteria before launch.Maintain and evolve risk appetite and control frameworks, making informed decisions about when controls should be strengthened or adjusted based on data, risk exposure, and business needs.Identify opportunities for risk management to support customer value and business growth while protecting customers and the organization from financial and operational downside.Lead day-to-day risk operations, including team queues, escalation workflows, complex cases, operational routines, and decisions that fall outside established playbooks.Monitor fraud and risk patterns, tune rules and controls, review cases when trends change, and use false positives and missed detections as signals for continuous improvement.Establish and maintain incident-readiness frameworks, including playbooks, escalation paths, and decision processes for fraud spikes, emerging attack vectors, and

📌 Director, Payments Risk (Winnipeg)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 Winnipeg