Business Development Manager – Risk & Fraud

About the Role

Sporty Group is seeking a Business Development Manager specializing in Risk & Fraud to join their remote-first team. This role is essential for safeguarding platform integrity while ensuring smooth customer experiences across multiple markets in Africa and LATAM. You will operate at the nexus of regulatory analysis, fraud prevention, compliance, and product-led risk design, playing a key part in new market launches and continuous optimization of customer flows.

What You'll Be Doing

• Monitor fraud trends, risk ratios, and operational leakage across markets, providing regular reporting and insights.
• Support new market launches by assessing regulatory frameworks, data privacy, AML, KYC, and compliance obligations in collaboration with Legal, Admin, Product, and Operations teams.
• Conduct monthly competitor analysis on fraud tools, KYC processes, and risk controls to maintain a best-in-class balance between security and user experience.
• Partner with Product and Tech teams to continuously enhance onboarding, withdrawal, and transaction flows.
• Evaluate, onboard, and manage KYC, AML, fraud, and compliance partners.
• Lead partner negotiations and support cost optimization efforts.
• Support PCI DSS compliance, security audits, and broader regulatory readiness programs.
• Ensure end-to-end risk and fraud readiness for new market rollouts.
• Build dashboards and reporting frameworks for leadership to provide clear risk visibility and decision support.

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of experience in risk, fraud, compliance, or payments security.
• Strong working knowledge of KYC, AML, transaction monitoring, and risk controls.
• Proven experience collaborating with product and engineering teams in fast-moving environments.
• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in emerging markets is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable operating in greenfield, low-structure environments and managing multiple workstreams concurrently.
• Highly adaptable and resilient, with the ability to navigate evolving regulatory and market requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Product, Operations, Technology, Legal, and external partners.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential.

What's In It For You

• Remote-first company focused on sustainability.
• Competitive salary plus individual performance-based bonuses every quarter.
• 28 days paid annual leave.
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses.
• Top-of-the-line equipment.
• Annual company retreats for networking opportunities.

Application Process

All applications are reviewed by a member of the team, with a commitment to respond within 48 hours. AI is not used in the recruitment process.