Risk Manager @ Outpost

Global commerce is a regulatory minefield. Without proper risk management, you're one compliance breach away from losing market access, banking partners, or customer trust. Outpost needs someone to own this.

We operate as Merchant of Record across 58+ tax jurisdictions, handling payments, tax compliance, and customer experience for digital and physical goods. That means we sit at the intersection of payments, regulatory compliance, financial crime, and operational risk - across dozens of regulatory regimes simultaneously.

This is the first risk hire. You'll build the risk function from scratch.

🧠 The Role

This is a Risk Manager role for someone who wants to build like a founder, thinks like a regulator, and operates like an operator.

You'll own risk management end-to-end - from identifying emerging regulatory requirements to designing controls, embedding them in products, and ensuring we can scale safely across new markets. You'll work directly with the CEO, engineering, product, operations, and tax to turn complex regulatory frameworks into practical, scalable risk management.

This isn't a role where you write policies and file them away. You'll be in the weeds: reviewing product launches, debugging compliance gaps with engineers, working with banking partners, analysing transaction data, and making hard trade-offs between speed and safety.

You care deeply about building things the right way. You want to enable growth, not block it.

🧗 What You'll Get

Yes, the work is intense. But in return, you'll get training and exposure most people wait 10–20 years to access.

You'll be working on global problems, dealing with regulators and banking partners, and owning strategic risk decisions across payments, tax, financial crime, and operations - from day one.

We won't handhold, but we'll coach you hard. If you're hungry, you'll leave this role with a world-class risk skillset and the ability to scale fintech products in the hardest markets.

🧩 What You'll Do

Own the risk function

Build Outpost's risk management framework from scratch (policies, procedures, controls, and governance)

Identify, assess, document, and monitor risks across payments, tax, financial crime, and operations

Set risk appetite and tolerance levels in partnership with the CEO and founding team

Make the hard calls: what's acceptable risk vs. what could kill the business

Enable safe growth

Work with Product and Engineering to embed risk thinking into new product launches and market expansions

Conduct pre-launch risk assessments for new products, markets, and banking partnerships

Design practical, effective controls that protect the business without slowing it down

Ensure we can say "yes" to merchants safely (not just say "no" to risk)

Be the regulatory expert

Stay ahead of regulatory changes across payments, MoR, tax, and financial crime in key markets (EU, UK, US, etc.)

Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for product and operations teams

Represent Outpost in discussions with regulators, banking partners, and payment processors

Build relationships with external stakeholders and maintain regulatory credibility

Manage financial crime and operational risk

Design and implement AML/fraud controls across 58+ jurisdictions

Monitor transaction patterns, investigate suspicious activity, and manage incident response

Own the control environment for payments, settlements, and treasury operations

Work with Operations to identify and remediate operational risk gaps

Build the infrastructure

Develop KRIs (Key Risk Indicators) and MI (Management Information) to track risk exposure in real-time

Implement risk incident management processes - logging, investigating, and remediating issues

Create training and enablement materials so the whole team understands their risk responsibilities

Build scalable systems and processes that grow with the business

💥 Example Projects

Conduct risk assessment for launching in 5 new EU markets and design the compliance playbook

Improve our AML transaction monitoring rules to catch real fraud without creating false positive nightmare