Sr. Risk Strategist

Lithic is hiring a seasoned Risk Management professional highly adept at proactively controlling and mitigating risks across multiple financial services products and payment channels, with a desire to own material aspects of the company’s risk management strategy. This role requires comfort in dynamic, ambiguous, and highly cross-functional environments, with a natural inclination for leveraging data and insights to influence executive decisions. You have a demonstrated record of proactively driving the pace of execution for high-impact strategic initiatives as well as a willingness to rolling up your sleeves to complete whatever unglamorous but worthwhile tasks lead to Lithic’s and our clients’ success.You will collaborate heavily with Product, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Success teams to shape how Lithic balances customer experience, risk management, and growth. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply!

What You'll Do: 

• Aid in designing, publishing, and managing Lithic’s risk management strategy and roadmap. Assume responsibility for delivery of OKRs and large, cross-functional risk projects.
• Anticipate and plan for risks to Lithic and our clients by creating, coordinating, executing, and publishing the output of Enterprise and Third Party Risk Assessments.
• Create, implement, and drive adoption of continuous improvement frameworks for Risk policies and procedures. Maintain Risk libraries.
• Set and acquire cross-functional buy-in and prioritization of risk product requirements as part of client product and feature releases.
• Build relationships with our customer-facing teams (and our customers themselves) to best inform our approach to managing risk in a way that enables prudent growth and embodies Lithic’s Graduation Path ethos.
• Advise clients on how to manage and mitigate credit, operational, and reputational risks unique to their industry, product, payment channels, and customer segment.
• Represent Risk during Program Approval Committee, Bank Partner Risk Reviews, and other due diligence engagements.

What You Bring: 

• 5+ years of financial services risk management and strategy experience blending analytical, policy, and qualitative assessment work that drives measurable impact to a company’s hero metrics
• Expert understanding of enterprise and operational risk management principles and practices. Experience running product, program, client, and business risk assessments.
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem solving, with experience leveraging large datasets to inform assessments and decisions. Excellent SQL programming skills and advanced Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel skills
• Outstanding communication and influence skills, coupled with the ability to foster collaboration and teamwork. Empathy toward the needs of others, with a track record of building relationships across a variety of levels and roles
• Self-awareness and humility, with the ability to balance when to think from first principles, when to lean on your experience in approaching a problem, and when to turn to others for help
• A passion for identifying problems and finding the ideal solution. Automation and optimization are two of your greatest strengths, and you possess strong prioritizing and project management skills
• The ability to relentlessly prioritize tasks and take ownership with minimal guidance
• A passion for process improvement and automation

Salary: $130,000 - $170,000

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