Financial Underwriting Lead Jobs

At Breeze, we're building the AI-powered infrastructure layer for global commerce, making it radically simpler for businesses to sell, get paid, and operate across markets. We go far beyond traditional payment processing. Breeze combines global payments, AI, stablecoins, and a Merchant of Record-like model to take on the complexity businesses typically manage themselves, including compliance, risk, fraud, chargebacks, reconciliation, and customer support. Our goal is simple: let businesses focus on building and selling great products while Breeze handles the complexity behind getting paid. Backed by Sequoia Capital , Multicoin Capital , and The Chainsmokers , Breeze is a successful, rapidly growing, and exceptionally well-capitalized company. We have the runway to think long term while remaining early enough that every person joining today can have a meaningful impact on what we build. Overview Every merchant Breeze takes on creates an opportunity to grow and real financial exposure to manage. We’re hiring a Financial Underwriting Lead to own the decisions behind that growth: which merchants we support, on what terms, and how we protect Breeze from chargebacks, refunds, fraud, and merchant failure. You’ll own underwriting from application through ongoing monitoring, combining corporate credit analysis with sharp financial judgment to make high-impact decisions. This is a hands-on builder role with the autonomy to create the policies, scorecards, and processes that will shape how Breeze manages risk and scales globally. What You'll Do Underwrite new merchant applications: analyze financials, funding, runway/burn/unit economics; assess the business model's liability tail; make approve/decline/conditional decisions with a documented rationale Set reserves, holdbacks, volume caps and exposure limits Run portfolio re-reviews, adjust terms as merchant risk changes, maintain a watchlist/escalation path, track realized losses back into the framework Build and maintain under

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The credit risk operations team plays a critical role in ensuring a healthy financial ecosystem for businesses around the world. This team will directly impact the company's bottom line and growth capabilities by supporting new and emerging businesses. The Credit Operations team is responsible for conducting credit risk assessments, underwriting small and mid-size users, and proposing mitigation strategies that enable Stripe to take smart risks for our users. What you’ll do In this role, you will manage and develop a group of Credit Risk Operations Associates that are focused on commercial credit underwriting and risk mitigation. The Credit Risk Operations Team Lead will cultivate the engagement of their team members while guiding them to be the best they can be, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and advocacy within the organization. This means helping to set team goals, and using metrics to efficiently measure and guide team performance in pursuit of those goals. To be a fit, you will have a strong operations mindset, possess a deep understanding of commercial credit risk, be able to move quickly, and be passionate about delivering an incredible user experience. Responsibilities Manage, coach, and develop a new team of in-office Credit Risk Operations Associates Execute on commercial credit underwriting frameworks that allow your team to evaluate business models and financial statements of successful venture-backed startups to esta

Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role: As the Small Business Banking Credit Oversight Lead, you will drive independent oversight of the Bank's small business credit portfolio. In this role, you will ensure credit strategies, underwriting standards, portfolio performance, and risk management practices align with the Bank's risk appetite and regulatory requirements. Serving as a strategic advisor and credible challenger to senior leadership, you will proactively identify emerging risks, influence sound lending decisions, and champion a strong risk culture—all while maintaining second-line independence. What you’ll do: Provide End-to-End Oversight: Drive independent second-line risk oversight across the entire small business credit lifecycle, including originations, underwriting, servicing, and collections. Evaluate & Challenge Business Initiatives: Independently assess credit strategies, pricing, underwriting standards, and new products while providing credible challenge to first-line business partners with data driven analysis supporting risk and return. Monitor Portfolio Health: Track credit quality, loss performance, and key risk indicators (KRIs) to proactively flag areas requiring executive intervention. Identify Emerging Threats: Lead portfolio-level risk assessments to uncover emerging credit trends, risk con

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with banks, asset managers, insurers, and private capital firms to deploy production-grade AI systems in high-stakes financial environments. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to translate frontier model capabilities into reliable, auditable systems that create measurable business impact. Our work turns early deployments into repeatable solution patterns, operating standards, and evaluation practices that scale across regulated financial institutions. About the role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of OpenAI’s models inside financial services organizations where correctness, latency, explainability, and control matter. You will work with customers who are experts in investment banking, trading, risk, compliance, underwriting, research, operations, or investment decision-making, translating complex workflows, data constraints, and regulatory requirements into production systems. You will measure success through production adoption, workflow efficiency, risk reduction, revenue impact, and evaluation-driven feedback loops that inform product, model, and GTM strategy. You’ll work closely with Product, Research, GTM, Security, Legal, and GRC to deliver systems that meet enterprise standards for governance, auditability, and operational resilience. You will also play a central role in shaping OpenAI’s Financial Services offering — identifying high-value use cases, defining solution patterns, and building the first repeatable deployments that scale across institutions. Learn more about some of our work with financial institutions . This role is based in New York. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% may be required. In this role, you will Design and ship production AI systems around models, owning integrations,

About Paytm: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. About the Team: The Credit Risk Product Team is at the core of our lending operations, ensuring that our risk assessment models are efficient, scalable, and compliant with regulatory frameworks. The team collaborates closely with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and enhance credit risk models, decisioning frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, the team continuously refines underwriting processes to optimize loan performance and reduce defaults. About the Role: We are looking for a rockstar Senior Product Manager – Lending Risk to lead the Merchant Lending Risk charter at Paytm. You will own the risk product strategy that powers unsecured merchant loans, balancing aggressive growth with rock-solid credit quality and regulatory integrity, while partnering closely with Risk, Data Science, Engineering & Business. Key Responsibilities: * Define and drive the product roadmap for merchant lending risk. * Build and scale rule engines (BRE), decision engines, and model orchestration layers. * Implement audit-ready decision logs and explainability layers. * Build robust policy versioning and experimentation infrastructure. * Lead a team of credit risk analysts owning underwriting, risk, fraud, and monitoring. Requirements: * 5+ years of product management experience in the consumer or fintech industry. * Strong experience in unsecured merchant or SME lending preferred * Strong analytical and structured thinking ability. Why join us •A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through tech

About Us: Paytm is India’s leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. A pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution, Paytm builds technology that enables small businesses and consumers to participate in the digital economy. Our mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them into the mainstream economy through technology. About the Team: The Credit Risk Product Team is at the core of our lending operations, ensuring that our risk assessment models are efficient, scalable, and compliant with regulatory frameworks. The team collaborates closely with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and enhance credit risk models, decisioning frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, the team continuously refines underwriting processes to optimize loan performance and reduce defaults. About the Role: We are seeking a detail-oriented Credit Analyst to join our risk management team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for implementing credit risk policies, optimizing risk policies, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. You will work closely with data scientists, product managers, and credit teams to enhance our underwriting models and decisioning frameworks. Key Responsibilities: * Analyze credit risk across various products, including merchant and personal loans, postpaid. * Liaison with the business team to understand the credit risk policies and implement the same on platform. * Implement the credit risk policies on our proprietary platform. * Monitor performance of credit risk policies. Share feedback with product and Policy team what's working well and what needs improvement. * Utilize alternative data sources, machine learning models, and traditional credit assessment techniques to enhance risk evaluation. * Conduct testing and scenario analysis to measure policy resilience. * Monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) and provide actionable

About Paytm Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help consumers and small businesses with payments, commerce, and credit. Paytm's mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. Role Overview We are looking for an early-career Product Manager to join Paytm Lending. The role is about re-imagining how a lending business runs, from underwriting and risk to operations and customer journeys, using LLMs and AI agents. It is a hands-on role. You will dig into data, edge cases, and day-to-day operational problems to understand them from the ground up before designing solutions. We are looking for first-principles thinkers who enjoy building with LLMs and like going deep on real problems. Key Responsibilities - Identify workflows across lending (underwriting, risk, recon, operations, collections) where LLMs and agents can add value, and judge where they cannot. - Build and ship product solutions from prototype to production, working closely with engineering. - Dig into data, edge cases, and operational detail to understand problems at the root. - Partner with stakeholders across risk, operations, engineering, and business to align priorities and drive delivery. - Write clear product requirement documents and manage roadmaps and deliverables. - Use data to define hypotheses, run experiments (A/B), and track impact; use SQL or Excel to access and validate data independently. - Track key product and data metrics (OKRs and KPIs) and adjust strategy as needed. Requirements - Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science and/or related field with MBA from top tier colleges. - 2 to 4 years of professional experience in product management, product analytics, or a similar role, with a strong customer-first mindset. - Genuine, hands-on experience building with LLMs.

About Paytm Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. A pioneer in the mobile QR payments revolution, Paytm builds innovative technology solutions that empower merchants and consumers alike. Our mission is to bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through payments, commerce, banking, investments, and financial services. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Growth professional (DGM/GM) to own customer acquisition, activation and usage for our Lending EMI business. The incumbent will drive the strategy and execution behind how customers discover, check their eligibility for, and activate Paytm EMI — spanning proactive outreach to pre-scored segments, always-on in-app/in-store eligibility checks, and in-the-moment discovery at the point of purchase. The role requires close partnership with Business Product, App Product, Risk, Risk Analytics, Brand Alliance, and Marketing teams to convert Paytm's existing user base — including Postpaid and other lending cohorts, and customers who already use Paytm's free credit report — into active, repeat EMI users, while keeping growth targets aligned with underwriting and portfolio quality constraints. About the Team The Growth team for Lending EMI owns the full top-of-funnel, activation charter and usage matrices: sizing and prioritizing the addressable base, running outbound and in-product campaigns, and measuring and improving conversion across every discovery channel — proactive whitelist outreach, standalone self- check, contextual at-purchase discovery, and merchant-assisted discovery. Key Responsibilities ● Own the GTM strategy and sequencing across customer segments (existing loan products/lending cohorts, the CIR base, internal usage patterns, new-to-credit customers) and merchant/category segments. ● Drive the proactive outreach ("Signup") program end to end: whitelist targeting, campaign design across push/SMS/email/in-app, frequency and consent m

Title: Senior SDET About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. About the team: A technology platform that provides all participants with benefits of scale in collections. The product has a single minded focus, non-biased/ underwriting influenced optimization which produces better results than individual lenders can. The product uses innovative AI engines and ML models to provide insights. About the role: Experience in testing of Web/mWeb, mobile app and API. Help in automation as per project needs (UI/API). Expectations/ Requirements · Educational qualification: BE/ B.tech/ MCA/ M.tech · Require 2 - 6 years of experience in manual (functional, regression, sanity, integration) and automation (Selenium/Appium/API) testing · 2+ years of relevant experience in Automation and Manual Testing. · 2+ years of experience in Automation, Selenium and Java. · Should have experience using any framework like - Cucumber / BDD / Any other. · Should have experience using any framework like Rest Assured. · Analyzing requirements/PRD and creating test cases. · Should be well versed in sanity, functional, re-testing, integration and regression testing. · Experience in Web, mWeb, mobile application testing. · Experience in API (Web Services) testing. · Experience in writing SQL queries and exposure to MySQL DB. · Should be well versed in defect life cycle and have hands-on experience in Jira. · Working experience in Linux. · Understands aspects of Agile methodology. · Experience in Selenium Web Driver/Appium. · Experience in API automation. · Experience in Programming lan

About Paytm Group: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytms mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. Role Overview We are looking for a high-agency Product Analyst to join the Lending product team at Paytm. This role sits at the intersection of analytics, product management, technology, and product operations. You will drive data-backed decision-making across lending funnels across acquisition and servicing, identify opportunities for impact, and take operational ownership of selected product workstreams to improve execution velocity and free up PM bandwidth. This is a high-impact role with direct influence on revenue and customer experience. Key Responsibilities Product Analytics & Insights Own end-to-end funnel analytics for lending products (financial securities). Build dashboards tracking key product metrics. Conduct cohort analysis across user segments and their performance. Design and evaluate A/B tests (pricing, UI flows, underwriting rules). Create decision frameworks for feature prioritization backed by data. Product Operations Own release monitoring and post-release performance tracking. Manage experiment rollouts and ensure clean measurement. Key Metrics Funnel conversion rates Servicing and experience Disbursal growth Time-to-disbursal Pricing & experimentation. Expectations • 3 to 6 years of experience in Product Analytics, preferably with a background in Lending. • Strong SQL proficiency (mandatory). • Experience with Python/R for modeling preferred. •Strong understanding of credit lifecycle and lending unit economics. • Experience building dashboards. • High ownership mindset and bias for execution. • Prior experience in a fast-paced B2C fintech environment (preferred). Why join u

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHO YOU ARE: As Senior Product Manager for Case Management, you will own the product area that moves insurance cases through their lifecycle — from new-business intake and requirements orchestration through underwriting, issuance, and placement. You will lead the product life cycle for this domain, partner closely with Engineering, and work across Zinnia’s Product Organization to keep the case-management experience aligned with company strategy while delivering measurable value to carriers, distributors, and policyholders. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Own the product roadmap and lifecycle for Zinnia’s case-management capabilities across the new-business and underwriting workflow - intake, requirements gathering, status tracking, and case placement - spanning distributor and carrier touchpoints on our platforms. Lead technical discussions with Engineering teams and manage technical and business requirements end to end. Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure product requirements are met, evaluate product performance, and transition features from development to commercialization. Define delivery and deployment timelines for new product, feature, maintenance, and corrective/service-pack releases. Ensure the technology and architectural roadmap aligns with and supports the product and business roadmap. Act as a customer liaison on technical matters related to product integration, custom development, and requ

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. We believe Plaid has the power to be the next-gen Credit Bureau - supporting large scale adoption of cash flow into the credit underwriting process. The Credit Decisioning platform team is responsible for building best-in-class cashflow based insights products that enable lenders to make more holistic lending decisions and empower broader access to Credit products for prospective borrowers. We own the systems and tooling that form the platform to build and serve these insights at huge scale, partnering with our Data partners to release new products yearly. You will be defining the future architecture of Credit insights products and executing against an ambitious product roadmap. You will partner with our Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning team to iterate on and productionize new insights that enable our customers to make more holistic lending decisions. Responsibilities: Leading technical architecture and execution across credit insights products: everything from data fetching and online feature serving for API requests, to offline production pipelines and tooling for model training. Scaling and evolving the architecture through an expected ~100x increase in load from deterministic factors

Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role: We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Secured Commercial Real Estate Lending to help lead SoFi Bank’s secured commercial real estate lending function. This role will oversee complex workflows across the commercial lending lifecycle, including origination, underwriting, credit administration, portfolio management, servicing coordination, and ongoing portfolio monitoring. This leader will be responsible for driving day-to-day execution, operational planning, resourcing, KPIs, KRIs, credit strategy implementation, portfolio discipline, and risk monitoring for the secured commercial real estate lending unit. The Senior Manager will partner closely with Credit, Risk, Operations, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Servicing, and senior leadership to ensure the function operates with strong governance, sound credit judgment, scalable processes, and clear accountability. The ideal candidate is a seasoned commercial lending and credit leader with deep expertise in secured commercial real estate lending, strong problem-solving skills, and experience leading complex workflows across teams or business environments. What you’ll do: Lead complex commercial lending workflows Lead key workflows across the secured commercial real estate lending lifecycle, including originations, underwriting, credit administratio

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Risk Data Science team builds the data foundations, models, and measurement frameworks that power Stripe's risk and product decisions — from underwriting and reserves to merchant interventions and enablements. We're at an inflection point: as Stripe increasingly offers risk capabilities as a product to platforms and users, we need a data leader to shape how we build, measure, and evolve our risk data strategy across the What you’ll do We are looking for an experienced data analyst to drive the data strategy for our risk as a product offering. Define the metrics, data products, and analytical frameworks needed as Stripe brings risk capabilities to platforms and connected accounts at scale. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Risk leadership to ensure data investments align with the product roadmap. You will design metrics, pipelines, and data products that serve as the analytical backbone for risk decisioning. You will own the definition, reliability, and visibility of our most important risk metrics. Establish a canonical set of north star and operational metrics and ensure they are trustworthy, well-documented, and consistently surfaced to the right audiences. Build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps these metrics accurate as our data and product landscape evolves, including clear ownership, alerting on regressions, and scalable pipelines that reduce the cost of keeping insights current. You will also own and evolve Str

Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role As a Staff Credit Policy Analyst for Home Loans will lead the design, governance, and continuous evolution of SoFi’s credit policy framework across Conforming, Government (FHA/VA/USDA), Closed-End Seconds (CES), and Portfolio products. This leader will own the strategic direction and operational oversight of credit policy development, ensuring all underwriting criteria are risk-aligned, investor-compliant, and digitally executable. You will serve as a key partner to Risk, Capital Markets, Product, and Operations—driving clarity, consistency, and scalability across all credit decisioning processes. In this role, you will provide strategic oversight of policy research, system automation, and audit readiness while fostering innovation in digital underwriting and credit enablement. What You’ll Do Credit Policy Leadership & Strategy Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of SoFi’s home lending credit policies, ensuring they align with enterprise risk appetite, investor standards, and business objectives. Define and manage the credit policy governance framework, including approval processes, documentation standards, and version control practices. Partner with senior leadership to identify emerging credit risk trends and recommend proactive policy adjustments. Oversee the roadmap for credit automation and deci