About this role
About the Role
Sporty Group is looking for a Business Development Manager - Risk & Fraud to safeguard platform integrity while enabling seamless customer journeys at scale. This role sits at the intersection of regulatory analysis, fraud prevention, compliance readiness, and product-led risk design, supporting multiple markets across Africa and LATAM, often in greenfield environments. You will play a critical role in new market launches, partner selection, and continuous optimization of onboarding and transaction flows, working closely with Product, Tech, Legal, and Operations teams.
What you'll be doing - Monitor fraud trends, risk ratios, and operational leakage across markets, with regular reporting and insights - Support new market launches, working closely with Legal, Admin, Product, and Ops teams to assess: regulatory frameworks and local legal
Requirements
; data privacy, AML, KYC, and compliance obligations; design and optimization of customer onboarding and transaction flows - Run monthly competitor analysis on fraud tools, KYC processes, and risk controls, ensuring best-in-class balance between security and user experience - Partner with Product and Tech teams to continuously improve onboarding, withdrawal, and transaction flows - Evaluate, onboard, and manage KYC, AML, fraud, and compliance partners - Lead partner negotiations and support cost optimization initiatives - 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 to provide leadership with 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 strongly preferred - Comfortable operating in greenfield, low-structure environments and managing multiple streams in parallel - 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 - Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability - A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter - 28 days paid annual leave - Referral bonuses & flash bonuses - Top of the line equipment - Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours. Apply directly on RemoteJobs.org: https://remotejobs.org/remote-jobs/business-development-manager-risk-fraud-sporty-group