Head of Fraud Product

Who we are:

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide.

Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our culture:

We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.

We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

We're a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work. Just a couple of things to keep in mind: pay is based on where you're located, and you'll need to keep a home base in the country you're hired in. So while we love the "coffee shop today, mountains tomorrow" life, this isn't a passport-optional, work-from-anywhere-on-Earth kind of remote - think flexible within your country, not borderless.

Location:

Remote - United States

About the role:

We are seeking a deeply experienced and visionary Head of Fraud Product to lead the strategy, development, and execution of Sardine’s core fraud prevention suite. In this role, you will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our fraud solutions, ensuring we stay multiple steps ahead of bad actors.

You will lead a talented team of product managers and collaborate tightly with engineering, data science, risk operations, and go-to-market teams. The ideal candidate is a seasoned product leader with a relentless passion for risk management, a deep understanding of the payments ecosystem, and a proven track record of building scalable, data-driven enterprise products.

What you'll be doing:

• Set the Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for Sardine’s fraud product portfolio, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term strategic innovation in device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and machine learning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Engineering and Data Science leaders to translate complex fraud typologies into highly accurate, low-latency models and product features.
• Optimize Core Metrics: Drive product improvements that maximize fraud catch rates while minimizing false positives and user friction for our merchants.
• Market & Threat Intelligence: Stay relentlessly up-to-date on emerging fraud trends, account takeover (ATO) tactics, synthetic identity creation, and competitor capabilities to ensure Sardine maintains its market-leading edge.
• Go-to-Market Enablement: Work closely with Marketing and Sales to define product positioning, value propositions, and sales enablement materials.

What you'll need:

Experience:

10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role managing other PMs.

Domain Expertise:

Deep, hands-on experience in payment fraud at a high-growth payment processor, fraud-vendor company or merchant.

Industry Background:

Prior experience working at a specialized fraud vendor or B2B SaaS startup.

Analytical Rigor:

Exceptional ability to work with large datasets. You are comfortable defining, tracking, and optimizing complex risk metrics (e.g., recall, precision, approval rates).

Execution Focus:

A bias for action and a proven track record of taking zero-to-one products to market and scaling them to enterprise readiness.

Communication Skills:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and risk concepts to both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders (including C-suite clients).