Professional Services Consultant
Sift · United States · 4 wk ago
RemoteRemoteInformation Technology$130k–$185k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Customer Implementation & Solution Delivery
- Gather business, operational, and technical requirements to design effective fraud prevention solutions.
- Configure and optimize fraud workflows, rules, decisioning logic, risk thresholds, and case management processes.
- Partner with customer technical teams to support API integrations and deployment activities.
- Develop implementation plans and success criteria aligned to customer objectives.
- Fraud Strategy & Advisory
- Advises customers on fraud prevention best practices across payments, account takeover, onboarding, identity, abuse, and emerging fraud threats.
- Analyse customer fraud trends, operational workflows, and performance metrics to identify optimisation opportunities.
- Recommend strategies that balance fraud reduction, customer experience, operational efficiency, and revenue growth.
- Conduct fraud strategy workshops and executive business reviews with key stakeholders.
- Technical Consulting
- Serve as a subject matter expert on fraud detection technologies, risk decisioning, and platform capabilities.
- Support customers in interpreting risk signals, model outputs, and fraud performance metrics.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Support teams to resolve complex customer challenges.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable solution designs and product feedback.
- Training & Enablement
- Deliver customer training and knowledge transfer sessions.
- Create implementation documentation, best practice guides, and operational playbooks.
- Enable customers to independently manage and optimise their fraud programmes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Support teams to ensure successful customer outcomes.
- Share customer insights and industry trends to influence product roadmap and innovation.
- Contribute to internal best practices, implementation methodologies, and consulting frameworks.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 4–8+ years of experience in fraud prevention, fraud operations, risk management, professional services, solutions consulting, or a related field.
- Experience implementing or managing fraud detection and prevention solutions.
- Strong understanding of fraud typologies including payment fraud, account takeover, synthetic identity, onboarding fraud, promotion abuse, and policy abuse.
- Experience working directly with customers or stakeholders in a consultative capacity.
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical fraud solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with APIs, JSON, web technologies, and SaaS implementation methodologies.
- Travel up to 30%.
- Ability to work flexible hours to provide coverage to West Coast & European customers.