Uber Regional Risk Lead 

United States, West Virginia 

831084314

About the Role

You will become an expert in our three core user groups — Spenders, Earners, and Merchants — gaining insights into behaviours that indicate potential fraudulent and abusive activity impacting our Marketplace. Your responsibilities will include investigating fraud and abuse cases, identifying patterns, and designing scalable solutions to minimise fraudulent activity which includes feedback loops into the Risk Product teams.

A key focus of this role will be maintaining the balance between delivering an exceptional user experience and preventing fraudulent and abusive activities.

This role calls for a combination of creative problem-solving, detail-oriented responsibility, marketplace risk & fraud knowledge, project management, and strong stakeholder management.

What You'll Do

Focus:The reduction of fraud losses to Uber through all possible motives including Financial Fraud, Chargebacks, Cash Underpayment, Arrears, Refunds and Appeasements, Promo Abuse, and others.

Analytics:Analysis of fraud vectors across the marketplace using SQL to review marketplace metrics to properly detect fraud, scope, and recommend or implement solutions.

Strategy:Work with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and others to assess nascent issues and develop scalable solutions.

Product Improvement:Evaluate the risk potential of new product features or business lines and recommend and influence decision-making to mitigate losses to Uber.

Take ownership of Risk Management in INSA and do everything you can to support and enhance the quality of our services; We expect a proactive and resourceful candidate to remove road blockers and find creative solutions.

What You'll Need

• Expert SQL proficiency
• Deep understanding of the Payments and Fraud ecosystem
• Excellent judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
• Ability to translate data findings into business strategy
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently
• Ability to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to execute decisions
• Strong verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
• Ambition and enthusiasm to seek opportunities to build value
• Problem-solving - Able to solve high-complexity problems by using logic, common sense and data not only by identifying the root cause of a problem but also being capable of providing actionable insights and mitigation plans
• MBA graduate or Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years experience in Risk, Online Retailers, startup, strategy, operations, analytics, business development, or a variety of other specialty roles with demonstrated ability in quantitative fields.
• Capacity to understand business decisions implications and their effects on the financials, particularly regarding risk / fraud topics

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert of the Payments and Fraud ecosystem
• Expert in delivering solutions to complex risk problems
• Manage cross functional stakeholders and experience in communicating and presenting complex issues to leadership

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .