Senior Director, Global Merchant Health - New York - Riskified

Description

Overview

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world's biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified's AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.

We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.

About the Role

The Senior Director of Global Merchant Health sits at the center of Riskified's core business: ensuring our merchants achieve optimal performance, trust, and growth on our platform. This is a high‑impact, high‑visibility leadership role responsible for a global team of analysts who partner closely with merchants, prospects, and internal stakeholders to monitor, optimize, and scale performance across Riskified's portfolio.

This leader will balance deep analytical and fraud expertise with strong people leadership, business acumen, and the ability to operate comfortably in client‑facing, high‑pressure environments. You will serve as a subject‑matter expert for complex fraud scenarios, performance optimization, and emerging trends, while also implementing the processes, and tooling needed to scale a global operation.

Reporting to the Chief Customer Officer, this role is critical to Riskified's success and visibility with both internal executive leadership and our most strategic merchants.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead & Scale a Global Team

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑caliber global team of analysts, located across New York, Tel Aviv, China, and Brazil.
• Build a strong team culture that thrives under pressure and values collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Optimize Merchant Performance

• Own the end‑to‑end performance health of Riskified's merchant portfolio, ensuring optimal outcomes across approval rates, fraud loss, customer experience, and revenue impact.
• Partner closely with merchants to understand their business initiatives ( and translate those needs into analytical strategies.
• Lead responses to complex fraud attacks or performance anomalies, driving cross‑functional action plans with urgency and clarity.
• Collaborate with Data Science teams to deploy and optimize models, while advocating for real‑world merchant needs and field insights.

Strategic Client & Prospect Engagement

• Serve as a senior, client‑facing leader in the most strategic and complex merchant conversations (Confidently present insights, recommendations, and performance narratives to executive‑level stakeholders.
• Support pre‑sales and prospect conversations as a trusted fraud and performance expert, including selective on‑site meetings and events.

Drive Process, Automation & Scale

• Bring a strong mindset of operational excellence, process design, and scale.
• Identify opportunities to automate workflows, improve tooling, and leverage AI to increase efficiency and impact across the team.
• Ensure reporting, dashboards, and presentations clearly communicate performance and insights to internal and external stakeholders.

Why You'll Love It Here

• You'll be at the pinnacle of Riskified's core business, with real ownership and impact.
• You'll work with world‑class talent across analytics, data science, risk, and commercial teams.
• You'll help define how Riskified scales Merchant Health globally through process, automation, and AI.
• You'll play a key role in shaping how merchants experience and succeed with Riskified.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience leading senior, high‑performing analytical or fraud‑focused teams in a global environment.
• Strong background in fraud, risk, AML, payments, or eCommerce analytics
• Proven ability to operate at the intersection of analytics, technology, and business strategy.
• Comfort and credibility in client‑facing environments, with strong interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated success building scalable processes, automation, and operational rigor in complex organizations.
• Global experience working across regions, cultures, and time zones (strong plus).
• Ability to thrive in a high‑pressure, high‑visibility role with significant executive and client attention.

The base salary range for this position is $220,000 - $240,000. This range is applicable to candidates who will perform the job either wholly, or in part, within New York City. Actual salary will be based on qualifications, competencies, and location. If you feel this range is not attractive, we encourage you to let us know through the application process.

Base salary is just one part of the pay package at Riskified. All full-time regular employees receive a bonus target and are eligible to receive stock-based awards. Also, our value proposition goes way beyond compensation: our perks and benefits package, culture, community, and learning and development programs are just some of the elements we provide to bring value to our employees. We invite you to apply at to learn more about what we have to offer.

Life at Riskified

We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We're looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.

Some of our NYC Benefits & Perks:

• Our NYC team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office for all our team members
• Fully-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance from your first day
• Equity for all employees, 401(k) + matching, commuter benefits
• Catered lunch, fully-stocked kitchen, team events, happy hours, birthday celebrations
• Yoga, pilates, soccer league, wellness classes
• Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact in local communities
• Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, sales bootcamp, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
• Awesome Riskified gifts and swag

In the News

Reuters: General Atlantic-backed Riskified valued at $4.3 bln in NYSE debut

Fortune Magazine: Riskified named Best Workplaces in New York for 2022

The Muse: Q&A with Sales Enablement Manager Benedikt Parstorfer

Globes: Riskified is among Israel's fastest growing companies

TechCrunch: Riskified Prevents Fraud on Your Favorite E-commerce Site

CTech: Riskified's VP HR on Post-COVID Flexible Work Routines

Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.