Staff Risk Strategy Analyst

Poshmark
Redwood City
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 137,255 - 193,872 annuallyFunction: Strategy & Corporate DevelopmentExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Analytical and problem-solving","First-principles thinking","Stakeholder management","Communication","Strategic judgment"]

Develop and scale marketplace risk strategies to mitigate fraud and abuse across buyer, seller, and account integrity, while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Use large-scale analytics and risk decisioning tooling to identify abuse patterns, optimize policies, and balance prevention with growth. Partner with Data Science and cross-functional teams to operationalize ML models, run hypothesis-driven experiments, define KPIs, and continuously improve monitoring and governance.

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Poshmark
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Staff Risk Strategy Analyst

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Job Summary

Develop and scale marketplace risk strategies to mitigate fraud and abuse across buyer, seller, and account integrity, while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Use large-scale analytics and risk decisioning tooling to identify abuse patterns, optimize policies, and balance prevention with growth. Partner with Data Science and cross-functional teams to operationalize ML models, run hypothesis-driven experiments, define KPIs, and continuously improve monitoring and governance.
Location: Redwood City
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Strategy & Corporate Development
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and deliver marketplace risk strategies and policies across buyer fraud, seller abuse, account integrity, payment fraud, refund/return abuse, spam, and trust & safety.
  • •Use advanced analytics on large-scale marketplace data to identify abuse patterns, quantify risk exposure, and define actionable mitigations.
  • •Design, implement, and optimize risk decisioning strategies across internal and external risk tooling to balance prevention, user experience, and growth.
  • •Partner with Data Science to evaluate, operationalize, and monitor ML models across account risk, listing integrity, comment abuse, identity risk, and behavioral anomaly detection.
  • •Drive experimentation and establish KPIs/monitoring frameworks to evaluate effectiveness, measure impact, and respond to emerging threats.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 137,255 - 193,872 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field with 8+ years relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 6+ years in fraud, risk, trust & safety, or advanced analytics.
  • •Deep experience developing and optimizing fraud, abuse, or trust-related strategies in marketplace, e-commerce, fintech, payments, or platform ecosystems.
  • •Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with large-scale transactional and behavioral datasets; Python or R preferred.
  • •Experience leveraging internal and third-party risk decisioning, orchestration, identity, or fraud prevention platforms.
  • •Experience partnering with Data Science and Machine Learning teams to operationalize predictive models into production risk workflows.
Experience:8+ yearsMarketplaceE-commerceFintechPaymentsPlatform ecosystems
Education:Bachelor's in quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Finance, Operations Research, or related)
Skills:Analytical and problem-solvingFirst-principles thinkingStakeholder managementCommunicationStrategic judgment
Tech Stack:SQLPythonRMachine learningML modelsRisk decisioningExperimentation

Company Brief

Poshmark
Operates a social commerce marketplace for new and secondhand fashion, home goods, and beauty products. The platform lets users buy, sell, and share listings through a community-driven shopping experience.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Established Company
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Redwood City, United States
Founded: 2011
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