Credit Risk Manager

Role Description

As Marqeta’s Credit Risk Manager, you will lead credit underwriting and account management for our SMB and commercial card programs, helping us launch and scale credit offerings for small, mid-market, and commercial businesses. You will drive innovation to establish best-in-class credit strategies in partnership with internal stakeholders and external bank partners and customers. You will create something unique in the embedded credit space: a marketplace that enables fintech apps, wallets, and merchants to offer credit products at scale.

Embedded within finance, this role will support Marqeta’s evolving managed credit card programs by owning manual underwriting, account management, spend controls, line management, and portfolio monitoring for SMB and commercial customers, in partnership with cross-functional execution teams across product, engineering, sales, operations, and other functional areas.

This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our Premium or National locations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building credit card risk and pricing programs, ideally at a fintech, with hands-on manual underwriting experience on SMB and/or commercial credit card products
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Math, or a related field

Requirements

• Own end-to-end manual underwriting for new SMB and commercial card customers, using both bureau data and cash flow analysis to make credit decisions
• Build, review, and refine SMB and commercial credit card risk origination strategies, including line assignment, spend controls, and account management policies
• Proactively adjust credit card policies based on portfolio performance and risk trends
• Establish strategies that directly drive KPIs: approval rates, new accounts, loss rates, profit margin, and more
• Partner with data scientists to build best-in-class commercial credit risk and cash flow models
• Work with product to develop modern credit stacks and data strategies leveraging bureau, bank, and cash flow datasets
• Manage credit lines, spend controls, and exposure across the SMB and commercial portfolio, taking proactive risk-based action on accounts as performance evolves
• Build the tracking and early warning framework for the portfolio, including utilization, payment behavior, and concentration risk
• Draft underwriting and risk documentation
• Support bank partners on model validation and governance
• Report KPIs and risk performance to senior management regularly
• Serve as a risk consultant to bank partners and customers — recommending improvements to credit strategies
• Collaborate across Banking, Product, Finance, and Capital Markets as an internal strategic resource and external-facing advisor

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution and after-tax contributions
• Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
• Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
• Flex First, allowing the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive