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, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
Our culture:
We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere
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.
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).
Benefits we offer:
Generous compensation in cash and equity
Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
MacBook Pro delivered to your door
One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
Monthly meal stipend
Monthly social meet-up stipend
Annual health and wellness stipend
Annual Learning stipend
Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of product management experience
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing product managers
- Deep, hands-on experience in payment fraud at a payment processor, fraud vendor, or merchant
- Experience working at a specialized fraud vendor or B2B SaaS startup
- Ability to work with large datasets and optimize risk metrics such as recall, precision, and approval rates
- Track record of taking zero-to-one products to market and scaling them for enterprise readiness
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical and risk concepts to technical, non-technical, and C-suite stakeholders
What We Do
We are a leader in fraud prevention and AML compliance. Our platform uses device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and AI to stop fraud before it happens. Today, over 300 banks, retailers, and fintechs worldwide use Sardine to stop identity fraud, payment fraud, account takeovers, and social engineering scams. We have raised $145M from world-class investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Activant, Visa, Experian, FIS, and Google Ventures.
Why Work With Us
We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation. Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.
