Who We Are

Who We Are 

Our Product: Ampla is a financial platform designed to support omni channel brands at scale. Our Growth Line of Credit allows founders access to working capital solutions. In 2022 we launched Ampla Banking, Ampla Billpay, & Ampla Pay Later. 

Our Mission: We are tirelessly focused on building better financial technology to serve emerging brands across eCommerce and increase their likelihood of success.

Why Ampla: At Ampla we continue to outperform our goals by leveraging our collective genius and diverse experience; take a look at some of our recent achievements: 

• Named one of BuiltIn’s Best Startups to Work for in NYC in 2023 🚀

• Acquired Upside Financing in Q4’22 🆙

• Raised $40mm in our Series A in Q4’21 🤑

• Grew to 100 Amployees in 2023, with teammates across 7 countries 🌎

About the Role

Ampla has a unique opportunity for an experienced fraud specialist to build, lead and scale our fraud department from the beginning.  This is a Manager-level position that is responsible for not only formulating fraud strategies but also directly running the daily operations.  You will build and own fraud risk management across our product set, including transaction banking, lending, cards, and spend management solutions. 

Responsibilities:

• Identify fraud through the customer’s lifecycle with Ampla, from initial onboarding and across all our products, mitigate Ampla’s exposure, and manage recovery.

• Build fraud analytics team from the ground up, including formulating fraud mitigation strategies, establishing standard operating procedures, and overseeing daily operations.

• Perform in-depth analyses of new and existing clients and provide internal business leaders with recommendations regarding customer onboarding, ratings, and offboarding.

• Conduct quantitative analyses to determine thresholds within which clients can access funds via credit lines and/or deposit accounts.

• Conduct real-time transaction and account monitoring, set up rules and alerts, and implement actionable responses with maximum automation.

• Create, iterate, and own our global KYB risk ratings register.

• Partner with product managers, data analysts, and the engineers to evaluate the efficacy of existing fraud tools, identify data gaps, and improve automation.

• Leverage fraud management vendors and emerging tools to enhance internal processes.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in fraud mitigation at a payments/fintech company.

• Extensive knowledge of fraud schemes used in transaction banking and credit cards.

• Prior hands-on experience mitigating account takeover, identity theft, and phishing risks.

• Fluency with established and emerging third-party fraud-mitigating tools and platforms.

• Solid understanding of fraud regulations including KYB, AML and BSA, and experience establishing product specific red flags required for compliance.

• Capable of operating in a fast paced environment with changing priorities and deadlines.

• Excellent interpersonal skills across a variety of communication styles.

• Extreme intellectual and personal integrity.

• Extreme ownership mentality.

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field and prior B2B fraud experience is preferred but not required.

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In compliance with local law, the anticipated base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $180,000. Actual salaries may vary depending on experience, level, skills, and other factors. In addition to base salary, Ampla offers competitive benefits such as 100% employer paid premiums for employee’s medical/dental/vision and 50% for dependents, paid parental leave, flexible PTO policy, 401(k), and equity packages.