Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient borderless manner.
The Role
Flutterwave is seeking a visionary Product Manager (Risk & Compliance) to bridge the gap between regulatory necessity and seamless user experience. You won't just be checking boxes; you will be the architect of our "Trust Layer." You will design and scale the automated systems from advanced KYC/KYB to real-time transaction monitoring that protect our ecosystem and enable Flutterwave to launch confidently into new global markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Risk Roadmap: Define and execute a product vision that balances aggressive growth with robust risk mitigation. Transform regulatory requirements into scalable technical features.
- Automated Compliance Infrastructure: Lead the development of automated platforms across KYC, KYB, AML, and Sanctions screening workflows & processes to reduce merchant onboarding friction without increasing risk exposure.
- Fraud & Transaction Monitoring: Partner with Data Science and Ecosystem risk to refine real-time fraud detection engines and transaction monitoring capabilities.
- Provider Ecosystem Management: Act as the primary lead for 3rd-party risk/compliance API integrations. Continuously evaluate vendor performance (accuracy vs. cost) to ensure we are using the most efficient tools in the market.
- Regulatory Subject Matter Expertise: Act as the bridge between compliance teams and broader Product & Engineering. Translate complex multi-jurisdictional mandates into actionable technical specifications.
- Performance Optimization: Obsess over "False Positive" rates and onboarding drop-offs. Use data to streamline compliance checks, ensuring a "friction less " experience for legitimate users.
Required Competency & Skillset
- The Experience: 7+ years of Product Management experience in FinTech or Payments, specifically focused on Risk, Fraud, or Compliance.
- Technical Literacy: Deep understanding of API-driven architectures. You should be comfortable discussing how webhooks, payloads, and third-party integrations impact system latency.
- Analytical Mindset: Proven ability to use data to identify patterns of fraudulent behavior or systemic compliance gaps.
- Commercial Acumen: Ability to manage "Compliance as a Cost Center" by optimizing provider spend and improving operational efficiency.
- Domain Depth: Expert-level knowledge of KYC/AML frameworks, PCI-DSS, and transaction monitoring logic.
- Proficiency in leveraging ML models for anomaly detection, LLMs for automated regulatory reporting, and Explainable AI (XAI) to ensure data-driven risk engines remain transparent, compliant, and scalable
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of Product Management experience in FinTech or Payments, specifically focused on Risk, Fraud, or Compliance
- Deep understanding of API-driven architectures
- Proven ability to use data to identify patterns of fraudulent behavior or systemic compliance gaps
- Expert-level knowledge of KYC/AML frameworks, PCI-DSS, and transaction monitoring logic
- Proficiency in leveraging ML models for anomaly detection
What We Do
At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.
