Senior Manager, Risk Strategy Data Scientist

Bill.com Bill.com · Fintech · United States · Operations

Senior Manager, Risk Strategy Data Scientist at Bill.com, focusing on building and maintaining fraud and credit risk management strategies for payments. This role involves leveraging AI/ML tools, including LLMs and generative AI, to identify emerging fraud patterns and inform rule/model development. The position also requires evaluating and governing AI-generated outputs, optimizing operational efficiencies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Experience with data science models, rule-based systems, and AI-assisted analytics platforms is crucial.

What you'd actually do

  1. Formulate fraud and credit risk management strategies and controls for payments across different channels.
  2. Build and maintain the risk strategies.
  3. Collaborate with cross functional teams to operationalize these risk strategies.
  4. Use data to inform insights, influence stakeholders on relative priorities, management, refining risk strategies and driving initiatives.
  5. Define, develop, and deploy risk management methodologies and models including data science and rule-based and predictive fraud models.

Skills

Required

  • 8 years of experience in risk management within the Fintech or financial services industries with an emphasis on fraud and credit risks
  • 3 - 5 years in management
  • Strong knowledge of the fundamentals of risk strategy such as fraud detection and prevention, balancing customer experience against rising fraud threats, using data to draw insights for risk mitigation
  • Adept at SQL queries, reporting and presenting findings
  • Proficiency in Excel and other visualization tools
  • Strong organization and time management skills and the ability to prioritize manage multiple projects at once
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Management, Engineering teams to convey the strategy and work through the roadmap prioritization, planning and implementation.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with defining, developing, and deploying risk management methodologies and models including data science and rule-based and predictive fraud models
  • Expertise in driving operational efficiencies and scale through ongoing policy and model optimization.
  • Communicate and liaise effectively with the Compliance team and formulate the strategy for new product launches.
  • Experience managing cross-functional, multi-stakeholder processes, communicating and influencing stakeholders at various levels across functional boundaries
  • Strong analytical abilities.
  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI/ML tools to strengthen fraud strategy, including using LLM-based signals, anomaly detection, or generative AI to identify emerging fraud patterns and inform rule and model development
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted analytics platforms (e.g., Python-based ML libraries, AutoML tools, or vendor AI solutions) to accelerate fraud pattern recognition, risk scoring, and strategy iteration at scale
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate and govern AI-generated outputs within a fraud risk context — including assessing model drift, managing false positive/negative tradeoffs, and knowing when to override automated fraud decisions

Nice to have

  • MS/MA/MBA degree preferred in Business, Economics, Finance, Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Familiarity with typical credit data, systems & technologies is highly valuable

What the JD emphasized

  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI/ML tools to strengthen fraud strategy
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted analytics platforms
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate and govern AI-generated outputs within a fraud risk context

Other signals

  • Leveraging AI/ML tools to strengthen fraud strategy
  • Using LLM-based signals, anomaly detection, or generative AI to identify emerging fraud patterns
  • Defining, developing, and deploying risk management methodologies and models including data science and rule-based and predictive fraud models
  • Driving operational efficiencies and scale through ongoing policy and model optimization
  • Evaluating and governing AI-generated outputs within a fraud risk context