Principal Fraud Advisor

Responsibilities

• Serve as a fraud subject-matter expert in conversations with prospective customers.
• Build trusted relationships with fraud, risk, identity, payments, and financial-crime executives.
• Lead discovery conversations to understand customers’ fraud strategies, workflows, pain points, and priorities.
• Advise prospects on incorporating SentiLink products into operational and technology environments.
• Translate customer needs into recommendations for product configuration, workflow design, implementation, and change management.
• Support sales engagements, executive briefings, workshops, demonstrations, and complex customer questions.
• Partner with Sales to develop credible, outcome-oriented customer narratives.
• Share customer insights with Product and Engineering to inform roadmap priorities and solution design.
• Establish best practices for fraud prevention, identity verification, risk management, and financial-crime operations.
• Represent the company at industry events, customer meetings, and external forums.
• Track emerging fraud patterns, attack techniques, regulatory developments, and industry practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in fraud, fraud risk, financial crime, identity, trust and safety, or a related field.
• Significant experience in a senior fraud leadership or practitioner role within a bank, lender, payments company, fintech, or other regulated financial-services organization.
• Deep understanding of fraud operations, risk decisioning, identity, investigations, or financial-crime processes.
• Experience designing, managing, or improving fraud workflows and operating models.
• Ability to build rapport and credibility quickly with senior executives.
• Strong understanding of how fraud teams evaluate, implement, and operationalize technology solutions.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex fraud and technical concepts for executive, operational, and technical audiences.
• Strong commercial judgment and comfort in a consultative, customer-facing environment.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• High ownership, sound judgment, and a bias toward action.
• Curiosity about evolving fraud tactics, identity risk, and the broader risk landscape.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $180,000–$250,000, plus equity and benefits.
• Employer-paid group health insurance for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) plan with employer match, or equivalent for non-U.S.-based roles.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Regular company-wide in-person events.
• Home office stipend.