Risk Manager

Risk Manager @ Outpost

Global commerce is a regulatory minefield. Without proper risk management, you are one compliance breach away from losing market access, banking partners, or customer trust. Outpost needs someone to own this.

We operate as Merchant of Record across 58+ tax jurisdictions, handling payments, tax compliance, and customer experience for digital and physical goods. That means we sit at the intersection of payments, regulatory compliance, financial crime, and operational risk – across dozens of regulatory regimes simultaneously.

This is the first risk hire. You will build the risk function from scratch.

Risk Manager for someone who wants to build like a founder, think like a regulator, and operate like an operator.

You will own risk management end to end – from identifying emerging regulatory requirements to designing controls, embedding them into products, and ensuring we can scale safely across new markets. You will work directly with the CEO, engineering, product, operations, and tax to turn complex regulatory frameworks into practical, scalable risk management.

This isn’t a role where you only write policies. You will be in the weeds: reviewing product launches, debugging compliance gaps with engineers, working with banking partners, analysing transaction data, and making hard trade‑offs between speed and safety.

You care deeply about building things the right way. You want to enable growth, not block it.

Yes, the work is intense. In return you will receive training and exposure most people wait 10–20 years to access.

You will be working on global problems, dealing with regulators and banking partners, and owning strategic risk decisions across payments, tax, financial crime, and operations from day one.

We won’t handhold, but we will coach you hard. If you are hungry, you will leave this role with a world‑class risk skillset and the ability to scale fintech products in the hardest markets.

Own the risk function

• Build Outpost’s risk management framework from scratch (policies, procedures, controls, and governance)
• Identify, assess, document, and monitor risks across payments, tax, financial crime, and operations
• Set risk appetite and tolerance levels in partnership with the CEO and founding team
• Make the hard calls: what is acceptable risk versus what could kill the business

Enable safe growth

• Work with Product and Engineering to embed risk thinking into new product launches and market expansions
• Conduct pre‑launch risk assessments for new products, markets, and banking partnerships
• Design practical, effective controls that protect the business without slowing it down
• Ensure we can say "yes" to merchants safely (not just say "no" to risk)

Be the regulatory expert

• Stay ahead of regulatory changes across payments, MoR, tax, and financial crime in key markets (EU, UK, US, etc.)
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for product and operations teams
• Represent Outpost in discussions with regulators, banking partners, and payment processors
• Build relationships with external stakeholders and maintain regulatory credibility

Manage financial crime and operational risk

• Design and implement AML/fraud controls across 58+ jurisdictions
• Monitor transaction patterns, investigate suspicious activity, and manage incident response
• Own the control environment for payments, settlements, and treasury operations
• Work with Operations to identify and remediate operational risk gaps

Build the infrastructure

• Develop KRIs (Key Risk Indicators) and MI (Management Information) to track risk exposure in real time
• Implement risk incident management processes – logging, investigating, and remediating issues
• Create training and enablement materials so the whole team understands their risk responsibilities
• Build scalable systems and processes that grow with the business

• Conduct risk assessment for launching in five new EU markets and design the compliance playbook
• Improve AML transaction monitoring rules to catch real fraud without creating false positive nightmares
• Work with Engineering to build automated controls for payment routing and settlement…