Head of Fraud Product

LOCATION:

- 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.

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).