Sr. Director, Risk Management
$158k/y-$272k/y
19 days ago
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OnsiteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Blackhawk Network is seeking a Sr. Director, Risk Management to lead and centralize the company's risk function, focusing on payments and fraud risk, to support its global growth and expansion.
About the Role
The Sr. Director, Risk Management will develop operational frameworks and strategies to manage risk across payments, fraud, cyber, investigations, and operational areas. Responsibilities include designing risk management operational strategies, enhancing risk policies, ensuring effective risk processes, updating risk governance models, evaluating and building risk infrastructure, fostering a strong risk culture, and building and leading a world-class risk management team. The role involves collaboration with technology, product, and customer service teams to protect the payments ecosystem and minimize fraud losses while maintaining customer experience.
About You
Required:
- Proven leadership experience in developing and managing a risk management function at a financial institution, fintech, or technology-driven e-commerce platform.
- Comprehensive understanding of payments landscape including regulatory, legal, compliance, risk governance, cyber risk, audit, investigations, and operational risk.
- Strong commercial and technology orientation with an operational and growth mindset.
- Ability to implement risk management strategies on a complex global scale.
- Hands-on leadership style with a reputation for integrity and professionalism.
- Undergraduate degree.
Preferred:
- Law degree or undergraduate degree with a criminal justice major.
- MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
- Experience with data, machine learning, AI, and decision science in risk management.
- Strong strategic judgment, conceptual and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication, relationship building, persuasion, and negotiation skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $158k–$272k depending on location and qualifications.
- 401k with employer match.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 12 paid holidays in 2025.
- Sick pay accrual at 1 hour per 30 hours worked.
- Parental leave.
- Life insurance and disability insurance.
- Accident and illness insurance.
- Health and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Wellness benefits.
- Flexible time off for full-time employees.
Blackhawk Network (BHN) delivers branded payment solutions through the prepaid products, technologies and network that connect brands and people. We collaborate with our partners to innovate, translating market trends in branded payments to increase reach, loyalty, and revenue. We reliably execute security-minded solutions worldwide. Join us as we shape the future of global branded payments. Learn more at BHN.com.
Pleasanton, CA