Made Card - Director of Credit Risk
Requirements
• Experience in fintech, credit cards, real estate, or home services. • Familiarity with compliance-heavy or regulated marketing environments. • Passion for credit cards, rewards, or homeownership-related products.
Responsibilities
• Underwriting & New Accounts: Define and optimize credit strategies for new account approvals, ensuring robust risk controls while enabling growth. Deploy test and learn mechanisms. Have complete ownership of implementation of said strategies directly in the risk decision engine. • Credit Policy & Segmentation: Develop, refine, and monitor credit policies and customer segmentation strategies to enhance risk differentiation. • Pricing & Limits: Design pricing and credit limit frameworks to maximize risk-adjusted returns. Implement ongoing pricing and limit management strategies (penalty pricing, limit increases, reductions etc.) • Model Decisioning: Build, own, and continuously improve credit risk models, decision thresholds, and cutoffs. • Portfolio Performance: Develop and monitor KPIs, analyze trends, and deliver actionable insights to maintain portfolio quality and profitability. • Collections Strategy: Develop data-driven, customer-focused strategies that reduce delinquencies and charge-offs. • Risk operations: Conduct manual reviews (underwriting, limit increases etc.), document exceptions, handle credit bureau disputes, set up payment plans. • Ideal Background • Ideal Background • 2+ years of experience in consumer lending or credit risk, with a proven track record in fintech environments. • Strong experience in at least one dimension of the credit lifecycle: underwriting, pricing, portfolio management, and collections • Hands-on experience with credit risk models and credit bureau data (traditional and alternative). • Strong technical acumen: pull data, analyze, create KPIs, create reporting tools (Python, SQL knowledge a plus) • Ability to synthesize complex data into clear strategies and communicate them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • We understand that not everyone comes from a traditional background. If you are a rockstar with a non-traditional path, we'd love to talk to you!
Benefits
• $100K – $110K • Offers Equity • Made’s mission is to help homeowners save time, money, and stress. It starts with Made Card - a credit card designed specifically for homeowners, with unmatched rewards on mortgage payments, home improvements, utilities, and essential purchases. Each swipe powers a personalized home management platform where users can manage home systems & appliances, stay ahead on upkeep, and get help - from AI-driven guidance to in-person services - exactly when they need it most. By bringing together financial tools, data, and trusted professionals, we give people more control, more savings, and more time to enjoy the place they call home. • Made Card • We’re partnered with leading national players in the residential homeownership space - from mortgage lenders to home services providers - embedding Made into the key moments of the homeowner journey. These partnerships let us reach millions of households across the country and deliver meaningful benefits to homeowners. • leading national players in the residential homeownership space • Backed by top investors like Village Global, Jump Capital, Recharge Capital, and Soma Capital, our leadership team brings deep fintech, mortgage, and credit card experience from Ramp, Bain Capital, JP Morgan Chase, American Express, and Morgan Stanley. We’re building the financial and engagement platform for the next generation of homeowners - one that puts the homeowner at the center, and redefines what it means to feel at home. • Village Global, Jump Capital, Recharge Capital, • Soma Capital • Ramp, Bain Capital, JP Morgan Chase, American Express, • Morgan Stanley • The Director of Credit Risk will play a critical role in shaping and leading Made Card’s credit risk strategy across the customer lifecycle. You’ll drive underwriting, pricing, segmentation, and decisioning for our credit card product while overseeing performance of the credit portfolio. • This role also owns the development and tracking of credit models and will lead Made Card’s Decision Science practice. • Base Compensation Band: $100,000–$110,000 (determined by experience, qualifications, and location) • Compensation: Competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity • Health & Well-being: We’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits • Health & Well-being: • Grow Together: Company-wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback • Grow Together: • Mortgage Benefit: Receive up to $25,000 toward closing costs of a new mortgage via our mortgage partners • Mortgage Benefit: • Play Together: Quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes, or team dinners! • Play Together: • Generous Time Off: Flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays • Generous Time Off: • Throughout the interview process, please remember that emails will only be from madecard.com emails. We won't ever be asking for any personally identifiable information during the interview process itself. Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any requests to verify the authenticity of an outreach.
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