[Hiring] Senior Fraud Strategist @RealPage

Role Description

The Senior Fraud Strategist is responsible for developing, testing, and optimizing fraud strategies, policies, rules, thresholds, treatment paths, and decision logic within assigned onboarding and monitoring workflows in RealPage’s payments ecosystem. This role will focus on development of policies and rules across:

• New account onboarding
• Tenant payments
• Vendor payments
• Owner draws
• Funding instrument verifications
• Limit management
• Transaction monitoring
• Payer anomalies

The successful candidate will take part in building RealPage’s next generation of fraud controls. This is a hands-on strategy role for someone who can independently identify the right data, write and troubleshoot SQL, connect fraud signals across systems, and translate analysis into practical decisions. They will:

• Test hypotheses
• Quantify fraud exposure and customer impact
• Evaluate strategy performance
• Recommend policies, rules, thresholds, and controls that reduce fraud while protecting the customer experience and enabling business growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Analytics, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Risk Management, Criminal Justice, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of full-time experience in fraud strategy, fraud analytics, payments risk, data science, financial crime, risk operations strategy, or a related technical risk function
• Advanced, hands-on SQL experience is mandatory
• Demonstrated experience developing or optimizing fraud rules, thresholds, decision logic, treatment paths, controls, or monitoring strategies based on independently sourced and analyzed data
• Exposure to data science, statistics, experimentation, model evaluation, Python/R, feature development, segmentation, or analytical methods used in fraud or risk decisioning
• Experience working with fraud operations, risk analytics, data science, product, engineering, compliance, or payment operations stakeholders

Requirements

• Advanced analytical curiosity and ability to connect fraud signals across disconnected tools, imperfect data, evolving processes, and multiple product or payment workflows
• Strong ability to translate independently sourced data findings into clear fraud strategy recommendations, rule changes, threshold adjustments, control improvements, monitoring plans, and policy considerations
• Strong working knowledge of fraud typologies such as synthetic identity, first-party misuse, counterparty fraud, business email compromise, onboarding fraud, stolen payment instruments, tenant payment fraud, account takeover, refund or dispute abuse, or bust-out behavior
• Ability to evaluate fraud strategies using metrics such as loss exposure, fraud capture, precision, false positives, customer friction, queue impact, and post-launch performance trends
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize technical findings for fraud, product, operations, data science, and leadership audiences
• High ownership, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to balance fraud mitigation with customer experience, operational capacity, compliance considerations, and business growth

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plan with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Performance-based bonus based on position

Company Description

RealPage is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.