About the Role
Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Riverty's risk decisioning platform, the technology that powers real-time credit and fraud decisions across payments and credit products. Report to the overall Platform Product Lead and collaborate with risk strategy, risk analytics, engineering, and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the evolution of a risk platform that scales reliably, meets regulatory requirements, and enables best-in-class automated credit and fraud decisions across Europe.
- Own the product roadmap for the risk decisioning platform, translating demand into a clear, prioritized plan.
- Lead and grow a team of product managers, fostering strong risk domain expertise.
- Drive platform stability, modernization, and scalability, managing technical debt and infrastructure improvements.
- Determine how business and regulatory requirements translate into technical designs and service commitments.
- Manage intake and prioritization for new requests, making transparent trade-off calls and escalating as needed.
- Keep stakeholders aligned through regular communication and reporting, ensuring the platform meets upcoming regulatory deadlines.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product leadership experience in risk, credit, or financial services.
- Proven track record of setting strategy and leading through regulatory change and large platform transformations.
- Strong domain expertise in credit risk, fraud prevention, or lending operations, including scoring, decisioning, credit limits, and portfolio management.
- Working knowledge of consumer credit regulation and its impact on product and platform decisions.
- Experience building and leading product teams.
- Experience managing a mix of legacy and modern systems toward a scalable, modernized platform.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to translate competing priorities into a clear roadmap.
- Fluent in English.
- German is a plus.
Skills
- Product Management
- Risk Management
- Credit Risk
- Fraud Prevention
- Lending Operations
- Scoring
- Decisioning
- Credit Limits
- Portfolio Management
- Consumer Credit Regulation
- Platform Modernization
- Stakeholder Management
- Roadmap Development
- Team Leadership
Location
- Berlin
- Amsterdam
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of product leadership experience
About the Company
- Riverty is an international community of over 4,000 people, representing almost 80 nationalities across 11 countries.
- United by the mission: Combining empathy, advanced technology and data-driven insights to keep people and businesses in flow with payments made for them.
- Part of the family-owned Bertelsmann group.
- Enables flexible payments in various industries, simplifying financial management for known brands and helping people repay debt to build financial confidence.
- Shaping FinTech.
Equal Opportunity
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