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, Zoom Info, and  rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

• We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #Work From Anywhere

• 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.

• Remote - United States

• From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. You can find your productive zone and work from there.

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.

• 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.

• 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…