Who we are
We scan and interpret the entire digital footprint of a business - from websites and social media to hidden online mentions - revealing who they really are and whether they pose a risk.
Global financial institutions and payment providers rely on us to stop fraudsters running shell companies, selling counterfeit goods, or laundering money.
The Role
Payment companies know they need to modernize merchant risk and compliance. The gap is execution: translating "we want agentic underwriting and monitoring" into a scoped plan with success metrics, an integration path, and stakeholders aligned, from the compliance officer to the CTO. You own that gap.
What We Do?
What You'll Do
- Lead discovery with acquirers, PSPs, and banks to understand their specific underwriting and monitoring workflows, constraints, and success criteria
- Define scope, success metrics, and rollout plans for pilots and production deployments
- Shape how each customer's processes become agentic: which steps to automate, where humans stay in the loop, and how risk and compliance stay covered
- Translate customer needs into clear plans for our Forward Deployed Engineers and product team
- Coordinate across customer stakeholders (risk, compliance, operations, engineering) and keep everyone aligned on what's being built and why
- Track progress, manage risks, and remove blockers through to launch
- Measure outcomes after go-live (approval rates, time-to-onboard, false-positive reduction, compliance coverage) and drive expansion into new use cases
What You Bring
- Experience in deployment-focused, technical, or execution-oriented roles: solutions engineering, technical consulting, implementation, or forward-deployed teams
- You structure ambiguous problems into concrete plans, and you're comfortable with technical concepts: APIs, data flows, system integrations
- Strong stakeholder management, including senior risk and compliance stakeholders
- High ownership, clear communication, bias to action
A strong advantage: background in the space we serve: financial services, payments, acquiring, risk, or compliance.
If you've run implementations or programs at or for an acquirer, PSP, bank, or compliance vendor, that experience is exactly what this role is built on.
Why join us
We're growing this team on a rolling basis. Send your CV or LinkedIn profile to careers@ballerine.com with the subject "Deployment Strategist - US".
We read every application and reach out when there's a fit.
