[Hiring] Head of Fraud Product @Sardine

Role Description

We are seeking a deeply experienced and visionary Head of Fraud Product to lead the strategy, development, and execution of Sardine’s core fraud prevention suite. In this role, you will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our fraud solutions, ensuring we stay multiple steps ahead of bad actors.

You will lead a talented team of product managers and collaborate tightly with engineering, data science, risk operations, and go-to-market teams. The ideal candidate is a seasoned product leader with a relentless passion for risk management, a deep understanding of the payments ecosystem, and a proven track record of building scalable, data-driven enterprise products.

What you'll be doing:

• Set the Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for Sardine’s fraud product portfolio, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term strategic innovation in device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and machine learning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Engineering and Data Science leaders to translate complex fraud typologies into highly accurate, low-latency models and product features.
• Optimize Core Metrics: Drive product improvements that maximize fraud catch rates while minimizing false positives and user friction for our merchants.
• Market & Threat Intelligence: Stay relentlessly up-to-date on emerging fraud trends, account takeover (ATO) tactics, synthetic identity creation, and competitor capabilities to ensure Sardine maintains its market-leading edge.
• Go-to-Market Enablement: Work closely with Marketing and Sales to define product positioning, value propositions, and sales enablement materials.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role managing other PMs.
• Deep, hands-on experience in payment fraud at a high-growth payment processor, fraud-vendor company or merchant.
• Prior experience working at a specialized fraud vendor or B2B SaaS startup.
• Exceptional ability to work with large datasets. Comfortable defining, tracking, and optimizing complex risk metrics (e.g., recall, precision, approval rates).
• A bias for action and a proven track record of taking zero-to-one products to market and scaling them to enterprise readiness.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and risk concepts to both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders (including C-suite clients).

Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity.
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested.
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture.
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break.
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific.
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific.
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door.
• One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
• Monthly meal stipend.
• Monthly social meet-up stipend.
• Annual health and wellness stipend.
• Annual Learning stipend.