Overview
In this role you will own the roadmap for Tide’s acquiring risk monitoring capabilities, collaborating with Engineering, Data Science, Fraud Operations, Risk and Acquiring Product teams to scale real-time monitoring solutions. You will define strategy, build scalable capabilities for card-present and card-not-present journeys, and drive measurable reductions in fraud and chargebacks. The role combines data-driven product development with risk oversight to protect merchants while preserving a smooth member experience. You’ll work across senior stakeholders to deliver impact that supports Tide’s growing merchant acquiring business.
Pay / Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Group Life Insurance
- Vitality Health Insurance
- 25 days holiday (+ buy extra)
- L&D budget
- Cycle to Work scheme and pension contributions
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy, vision and roadmap for acquiring fraud and risk monitoring within Ongoing Monitoring
- Build scalable monitoring capabilities across card-present and card-not-present acquiring journeys
- Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to deliver real-time rules, risk signals, ML models and decisioning workflows
- Hold end-to-end ownership of the product development lifecycle for acquiring fraud and risk monitoring
- Prioritize work by risk reduction, commercial impact, feasibility and user experience
- Create clear product narratives for senior stakeholders across Product, Risk, Operations, Finance and Commercial teams
- Use data to identify fraud patterns, loss drivers and control gaps; develop capabilities to reduce losses
- Establish and monitor metrics such as fraud loss rate, chargeback rate and operational efficiency
- Run experiments to improve fraud prevention with minimal friction for genuine members
- Quantify the commercial impact of fraud controls with Finance, Risk and Operations
- Build capabilities to improve chargeback prevention, monitoring and recovery outcomes
- Improve case management workflows and operational efficiency
- Increase automation and leverage AI to enhance risk decisioning
- Identify opportunities to use Agentic AI and automation for risk operations
Key requirements
- 4+ years of product management experience in acquiring risk, merchant risk, payment fraud, or related areas
- Experience in acquiring banks, PSPs, fintechs or large merchants with acquiring risk functions
- Proven track record of reducing acquiring fraud, chargebacks or merchant risk exposure
- Understanding of card-present vs card-not-present risk patterns across online and in-person payments
- Experience with real-time rules engines, fraud monitoring systems, ML models and risk workflows
- Strong data fluency to identify loss drivers and measure control effectiveness
- Ability to work with Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Operations, Finance and Commercial teams
- Clear communication with senior stakeholders and ability to translate risk topics into commercial decisions
- Passion for solving member and agent pain points and applying product design thinking
- Bonus: experience with Visa/Mastercard monitoring programmes; chargeback prevention/recovery workflows; AI capabilities; multi-market exposure; SME banking/payments experience
- pragmatic
- organized
- clear communicator
- real-time rules engines
- fraud monitoring systems
- machine learning models
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