Senior Manager, Credit Risk
Job description
As Marqeta’s Senior Manager, Credit Risk, you will lead our credit risk and pricing strategy, helping us launch and scale credit programs from the ground up. You will drive innovation to establish best in class credit strategies in partnership with internal stakeholders and external bank partners and customers. You will create something unique in the embedded credit space: a marketplace that enables fintech apps, wallets, and merchants to offer credit products at scale.
Embedded within finance, this role will support Marqeta’s evolving managed credit card programs by shaping credit risk strategy across acquisition and account management, pricing, performance and portfolio monitoring, in partnership with cross functional execution teams across product, engineering, sales, operations and other functional areas.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our Premium or National locations, which you can review here.
The Impact You’ll Have
Credit Strategy & Policy
- Own end-to-end credit strategy initiatives — from framework design through implementation and ongoing monitoring
- Build, review, and refine consumer and commercial credit card risk and pricing strategies
- Proactively adjust credit card policies based on portfolio performance and risk trends
- Establish strategies that directly drive KPIs: approval rates, new accounts, loss rates, profit margin, and more
Modeling & Data
- Partner with data scientists to build best-in-class credit risk and cash flow models
- Work with product to develop modern credit stacks and data strategies leveraging financial, bank, and third-party datasets — enabling underwriting automation at scale
Capital Markets & Partners
- Partner with capital markets on securitization structures, warehouse lines, and forward flow deals
- Provide analytical support to co-brand partners, including loss forecasts and profitability analysis
Governance & Reporting
- Draft underwriting and risk documentation
- Support bank partners on model validation and governance
- Report KPIs and risk performance to senior management regularly
Advisory & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as a risk consultant to bank partners and customers — recommending improvements to credit strategies
- Collaborate across Banking, Product, Finance, and Capital Markets as an internal strategic resource and external-facing advisor
Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor a small team of Credit Risk Analysts (1–3 people), providing direction on day-to-day priorities and longer-term development
Who you are
Experience & Background
- 8+ years building credit card risk and pricing programs, ideally at a fintech — across consumer and/or commercial underwriting
- Proven ownership across the full credit card lifecycle:
- Credit policy and risk strategy development, monitoring, and adjustment
- Approval, line assignment, and pricing strategy design
- Risk assessments for prospective partners
- Acquisition strategy across card programs
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Math, or a related field
Technical Skills
- Expert in Excel and SQL modeling
- Comfortable using data to build alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities
Collaboration & Communication
- Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, finance, compliance, bank partners, and capital providers
- Exceptional communicator — able to translate complex credit concepts for executive, partner, and cross-functional audiences (written and verbal)
Mindset & Adaptability
- Comfortable in a build environment — moves fluidly between strategy and execution without a large supporting team
- Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic settings with shifting priorities
- Demonstrated ability to adapt credit strategies in response to portfolio performance changes or macroeconomic conditions
Your Manager
Neha Nanda, Senior Director, Credit Risk
Our (typical) process:
- Application Submission
- Recruiter video call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
- Offer!
Compensation and Benefits
Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:
- National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
- Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
- Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.
Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.
When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:
- Premium+: $180,600- $225,800
- Premium: $166,200 - $207,700
- National: $153,500 - $191,900
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off – take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
- Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive
About Marqeta
Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
Marqeta’s Values
– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.
– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.
– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.
Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.
Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.