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Sardine is a leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, offering integrated solutions that unify data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. The company's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Trusted by leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com.
As Head of Fraud Product, you will lead the strategy, development, and execution of Sardine's core fraud prevention suite, owning the end-to-end product lifecycle to ensure the company stays multiple steps ahead of bad actors. You will lead a talented team of product managers and collaborate tightly with engineering, data science, risk operations, and go-to-market teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting vision and strategy by defining and executing the roadmap for Sardine's fraud product portfolio, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term strategic innovation in device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and machine learning
- Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering and Data Science leaders to translate complex fraud typologies into highly accurate, low-latency models and product features
- Optimizing core metrics by driving product improvements that maximize fraud catch rates while minimizing false positives and user friction for merchants
- Staying relentlessly up-to-date on emerging fraud trends, account takeover (ATO) tactics, synthetic identity creation, and competitor capabilities
- Go-to-market enablement by working closely with Marketing and Sales to define product positioning, value propositions, and sales enablement materials
Sardine maintains a remote-first work culture with hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. The company values performance over hours worked and believes employees shouldn't have to sacrifice personal commitments for arbitrary work schedules.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role managing other PMs
- Deep, hands-on experience in payment fraud at a high-growth payment processor, fraud-vendor company, or merchant
- Prior experience working at a specialized fraud vendor or B2B SaaS startup
- Exceptional ability to work with large datasets and comfort defining, tracking, and optimizing complex risk metrics (e.g., recall, precision, approval rates)
- Proven track record of taking zero-to-one products to market and scaling them to enterprise readiness
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to articulate complex technical and risk concepts to both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders, including C-suite clients
