Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst
Earnest
| Company | Earnest |
| Category | Consulting & Strategy |
| Location | Remote |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 7 Apr 2026 |
| Last verified | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision.
Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together. The Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst will report to Senior Manager, Fraud Strategy.
You will help build and scale fraud strategy for a growing lending business—owning execution today while shaping the long-term approach as we scale.
What You’ll Do
Reduce fraud loss while supporting growth by building and optimizing fraud rules and strategies
Own fraud monitoring and analysis, identifying risks across channels, segments, and customer cohorts
Turn data into action by investigating trends, surfacing insights, and driving decisions
Scale fraud operations by creating repeatable frameworks and improving coverage as volume grows
Design and evaluate experiments to balance fraud risk, approval rates, and customer experience
Partner cross-functionally to implement fraud controls across product, risk, and engineering
Support new products and channels by ensuring fraud risk is managed from day one
About You
4+ years in fraud, risk, or analytics in fintech, lending, or financial services
Strong SQL skills and comfort working hands-on with data
Familiarity with fraud types (synthetic ID, ATO, first-party fraud)
Experience with fraud strategy, monitoring, or detection (not just operations)
Ability to connect analysis to business outcomes (loss, conversion, approvals)
Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Clear communicator with a strong sense of ownership and initiative
Even Better
Experience in unsecured lending (personal loans, fintech)
Experience with experimentation or modeling (Python/R)
Background in 0→1 or scaling teams
Where:
This role will be based in the US.
Compensation:
A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future.
Salary Range: $134,000 - $165,000 USD. Employees are also eligible for an annual performance-based bonus and equity.
#LI-GA1 A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future. Salary Range $134,000 — $165,000 USD Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including:
Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
Robust tuition reimbursement program
$1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
Competitive days of annual PTO
Competitive parental leave
What Makes an Earnie:
At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other:
Every Second Counts : Speed is our competitive advantage. Our customers need better solut