Senior Risk Operations Specialist | Underwriting

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4 Locations
In-Office or Remote
112K-172K
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
Ramp helps thousands of businesses control spend, save time, automate busywork—and save an average of 3.5%.
The Role
As a Senior Risk Operations Specialist, you will oversee underwriting and customer risk management initiatives, mentor team members, and enhance risk processes based on data insights.
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About Ramp

At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it.

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 45,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

As a senior member of Ramp's Risk Strategy & Operations, you will drive operational initiatives related to underwriting, customer risk management, and fraud. This role requires an understanding of underwriting processes, fluency with data, and the ability to analyze risk vectors such as credit and fraud risks. You will take ownership of key initiatives within the team and provide mentorship to peers to elevate decision quality and execution. We take our responsibility to serve our customers’ commitment to their financial health seriously, and our approach is anchored in data-driven and systematic decisions to delight our customers.

Weekend work is required for this role, with the flexibility to choose either Saturday or Sunday each week to support underwriting operations.

What You’ll Do
  • Develop and execute Ramp’s risk underwriting policy used to onboard new business to the Ramp platform across corporate credit card and bill pay products

  • Build and maintain monitoring dashboards for underwriting outcomes, processes and losses

  • Partner with product and engineering to build best in class risk tooling to increase operations efficiency

  • Research emerging underwriting and fraud trends to innovate on Ramp's decisioning systems and policies

  • Provide best in class customer experience, while managing credit and fraud risk, by effectively managing customer support requests on their application over phone and email

  • Have the ability to grow, develop and learn in a fast-paced, start-up environment

  • Mentor team members within your pod to support decision quality and operational rigor

  • Collaborate cross-functionally to implement risk tooling and help resolve systemic issues impacting underwriting or fraud workflows

What You Need
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in Underwriting, Credit Risk Management or Fraud Risk Management

  • Experience within consumer/corporate/small business cards, payments, invoices, lending, or related industries

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Strong background in customer support via email 

  • Investigative and critical thinking skills

  • BA/BS from an accredited university

Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience in high growth startups

  • Experience building complex financial products

  • Knowledge of SQL or Python

  • Strong background in customer support via phone

Compensation
  • For candidates located in NYC or SF, the pay range for this role is $124,700 - $171,500.

  • For candidates located in all other locations, the pay range for this role is $112,200 - $154,350.

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

    • Partially covered for your dependents

    • One Medical annual membership

  • 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)

  • Flexible PTO

  • Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)

  • WFH stipend to support your home office needs

  • Wellness stipend

  • Parental Leave

  • Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

  • Pet insurance

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Top Skills

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SQL
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
450 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. More than 10,000 customers cut their expenses by 3.5% per year and closing their books 8x faster by switching to the Ramp platform.

Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment software in America and enables billions of dollars of purchases each year. Ramp continues to grow at an increasingly large scale, more than doubling its revenue run rate in the first half of 2022.

Valued at $8.1 billion, Ramp's investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp was named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company in 2022.

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