Director, Risk Strategy & Execution

What You'll Do

• Partner directly with the Chief Risk Officer to define organizational strategy, long-term priorities, and execution plans across the Risk organization.
• Help shape the future of Imprint's Risk organization by identifying opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness, strategic focus, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead strategic initiatives that span Fraud, Credit, Collections, Operational Risk, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Capital Markets, and Operations.
• Translate complex analytical and technical work into clear business strategies, executive communications, and actionable roadmaps.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure risk initiatives are prioritized, well-defined, and effectively executed.
• Develop frameworks that help leadership evaluate tradeoffs between customer experience, portfolio performance, operational complexity, and business growth.
• Prepare executive presentations, board materials, strategic planning documents, and business reviews that clearly communicate the Risk organization's priorities and impact.
• Identify organizational bottlenecks, execution risks, and process gaps, driving improvements that enable the team to scale effectively.
• Establish planning processes, governance, and operating mechanisms that improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making across the organization.
• Serve as a connector across the business, ensuring Risk is a proactive, collaborative partner to teams across Imprint.

What You'll Accomplish in Your First 90 Days

• Build trusted relationships across Risk, Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and other key partner teams, becoming a strategic thought partner to the Chief Risk Officer and Risk leadership.
• Develop a deep understanding of Imprint's Risk organization, including team structure, strategic priorities, performance metrics, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Establish a scalable planning and operating cadence that improves alignment across the organization, including quarterly planning, roadmap reviews, business reviews, and executive updates.
• Define a clear 12–24 month strategic vision for the Risk organization, identifying the highest-impact opportunities and the critical problems to solve before prescribing solutions.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to strengthen prioritization, roadmap development, and execution across cross-functional initiatives.
• Improve how the Risk organization communicates its priorities, progress, and business impact across the company.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, risk strategy, consulting, product strategy, program management, or a related leadership role within FinTech, financial services, or another high-growth technology company.
• Experience partnering directly with senior executives to define strategy, drive organizational planning, and lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong understanding of financial services risk, including experience working with Fraud, Credit, Collections, Payments, Lending, or Operational Risk organizations.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and develop frameworks from first principles.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and translate complex topics into compelling narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to build alignment across technical and business teams without direct authority.
• Strong judgment and a track record of balancing customer experience, risk management, and commercial objectives when evaluating strategic decisions.
• Comfortable working with data to inform decisions, including familiarity with analytical tools, SQL, or AI-assisted workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer lending, credit cards, payments, or another regulated financial services environment.
• Experience leading strategic planning or organizational transformation initiatives within a rapidly growing company.
• Familiarity with fraud prevention, underwriting, collections, portfolio management, or payments infrastructure.
• Experience preparing executive and board-level communications.
• MBA or equivalent experience in strategy consulting, business operations, or corporate strategy.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages.
• Leading configured work computers of your choice.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage.
• Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA.
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents.
• Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units.