Senior Manager, Fraud

Underdog

8d • $140,000 - $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

At Underdog, we make sports more fun. Our thesis is simple: build the best product for sports fans and we will win the space. Founded in 2020, we're one of the fastest-growing sports companies ever, and there’s still so much left to do. We've built and scaled products across fantasy sports, sports betting, and prediction markets, all united in one app that’s seamless, intuitive, and actually fun to use. Underdog isn’t for everyone. One of our core values is give a sht. The people who win here are the ones who care, push, and perform. We’re remote-first by design, but highly collaborative with regular in-person gatherings that help teams build, iterate, and move fast together. Got that dog in you? Join us. After all, winning as an Underdog is more fun.

Requirements

• 5+ years in fraud, risk, payments risk, or a similar function
• Led and developed fraud professionals, setting clear priorities, strengthening their judgment, and holding the team accountable for results
• Hands-on with fraud tooling - platforms like Sift, Sardine, or similar decisioning tools
• Know the full fraud lifecycle inside and out, and can design rules, controls, signals, and decisioning strategies across it
• Fluent in data - spotting trends, forming hypotheses, and measuring performance alongside Data/Analytics
• Partnered directly with Product and Engineering to build or ship fraud capabilities
• Think AI and automation first, always looking for new tools and data to apply
• Can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to implementation across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Own and grow the fraud program - find the gaps in how we detect, decide, and investigate fraud today, then build or fix what closes them
• Lead and develop a high-performing fraud team - set clear priorities, strengthen fraud judgment, and hold the team accountable for measurable outcomes
• Design the decisioning strategy - build the rules, signals, and logic that carry a case from detection through mitigation and measurement
• Run the tools yourself - configure and tune platforms like Sift, Sardine, or similar to sharpen detection accuracy and cut false positives
• Partner directly with Product and Engineering to scope, build, and ship new fraud capabilities and controls
• Work the data - spot fraud trends, test hypotheses, and prove out what your controls are actually doing, alongside Data/Analytics
• Push automation forward - look for every chance to put AI, automation, and new data sources to work on fraud
• Drive it across teams - take on ambiguous fraud problems and carry them through to implementation, pulling in Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and Legal/Compliance as needed

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Home office stipend
• A virtual-first culture, but we come together a few times per year in person for offsites, trainings, hackathons, and more
• Slack reactions for every occasion
• 401k with up to 5% employer match
• Company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents, FSA, and more
• Opportunity to celebrate your favorite sports teams through local meetups and company-sponsored events
• Claude and ChatGPT enterprise accounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed