[Hiring] Risk Operations Specialist @Breeze

Role Description

As our Risk Operations Specialist, you'll be on the front line of safeguarding our payments ecosystem. You'll identify, monitor, and mitigate fraud across card payments and crypto onramp and offramp transactions, keeping the experience secure and seamless for our users and merchants.

This role sits at the intersection of risk, operations, and product. You'll work alongside merchants, payment partners, Product Operations, and engineering, which makes it a strong fit for someone who enjoys combining analytical problem-solving with operational execution.

We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, wants meaningful ownership, and is excited to build rather than simply maintain.

What You'll Do

• Analyze, monitor, and prevent fraud across both card and crypto transactions, at the user and transaction level.
• Use internal risk tools and platforms, including Sift, to label, track, and manage high-risk users and transactions.
• Investigate suspicious activity and escalate potential fraud or compliance cases when necessary.
• Collaborate closely with merchants, payment partners, and internal teams to refine risk management strategies.
• Partner with Product Operations to respond to risk-related customer inquiries and manage user concerns.
• Work with engineers to provide product feedback and request new features that strengthen our risk detection capabilities.
• Support the ongoing development and automation of risk processes and playbooks.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in risk management, fraud prevention, payments, or compliance, ideally within payments, fintech, or financial services.
• Strong attention to detail and sound judgment, which are critical for identifying and mitigating risk effectively.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and collaborate cross-functionally.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments without an established playbook.
• A builder mentality with a strong bias toward action.
• Excited to use AI and automation to work smarter and rethink existing processes.
• Comfortable getting into the details and doing the work, regardless of seniority.

Nice to Have

• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
• Familiarity with payment gateways, banks, or high-risk merchant categories, for example gaming, travel, and hospitality.
• Experience using fraud detection tools such as Sift, Riskified, Feedzai, or Forter.

Benefits

• Health coverage: Breeze Stipend for insurance.
• PTO: 21 days, plus applicable company holidays.
• Equity: Meaningful ownership in the company you're helping build.
• Equipment: A new MacBook Air and whatever else you need to do your best work.
• Office & education allowance: An annual budget for your workspace, tools, and professional development.
• Wellness: A monthly reimbursement to support your well-being.
• Annual global offsite: We bring the global Breeze team together every year. Previous destinations include Bali and Singapore, with Japan coming next.

Location / Working Model

This role is remote in Bulgaria.

Why Join Breeze

• Make an outsized impact: We're successful and still early, with meaningful traction and strong financial foundations.
• Solve hard, meaningful problems: Work at the intersection of AI, payments, stablecoins, risk, compliance, financial infrastructure, and global commerce.
• Build AI-first: AI isn't an add-on. It's central to how we're building our products and how our teams operate.
• Work with an exceptional team: Join ambitious, curious, low-ego people who move quickly, hold a high bar, and care deeply about what they build.
• Grow with Breeze: As Breeze grows, strong performers can quickly expand their scope and take on bigger problems.
• Build for the long term: Backed by Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, and The Chainsmokers, we're exceptionally well-capitalized with the runway to think big.