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B9 · 14 hours ago

Lead, Business Monitoring & Anomaly Detection (Hands-on)

B9 is seeking a hands-on Lead to establish a company-wide monitoring and anomaly detection function. The role involves defining key business and risk metrics, implementing continuous monitoring and alerting, and coordinating cross-functional responses to detect abnormal behaviors such as fraud and operational issues.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Define monitoring strategy and KPI system: identify critical business and risk metrics across the funnel (acquisition, activation, retention, payments, credit/loans, support, etc.)
Build anomaly detection and alerting: set thresholds, baselines, seasonality-aware rules, and anomaly models where appropriate; reduce false positives/negatives over time
Anti-fraud and risk monitoring: design and maintain dashboards and alerts for fraud patterns, suspicious user behavior, chargebacks/disputes, account takeover indicators, synthetic identity signals, and other abuse vectors
Operational and reliability monitoring (as needed): partner with engineering to incorporate key technical signals that directly impact business
Create monitoring playbooks: define severity levels, investigation steps, escalation paths, and ownership (who acts, how quickly, and what “done” means)
Root cause and post-incident analysis: conduct investigations, quantify impact, and implement prevention/early-warning improvements
Stakeholder alignment: run regular reviews with Product/Risk/Ops/Engineering, iterate on metrics, and prioritize the monitoring backlog
Documentation & governance: maintain a “single source of truth” for definitions, formulas, and alert logic

Qualification

Data analyticsAnomaly detectionSQLDashboardsCommunication skillsPythonFintech experienceEvent-based architectures

Required

3+ years in data analytics, risk/fraud analytics, product analytics, business intelligence, or monitoring/observability roles
Strong ability to translate business processes into measurable metrics and signals
Hands-on experience with dashboards and reporting (Power BI / Grafana / Azure App Insights)
Strong SQL; comfortable working with large datasets and building repeatable metric pipelines
Understanding of anomaly detection
Strong communication skills: you can explain 'what happened, why it matters, what we do next' to both technical and non-technical teams

Preferred

Experience in fintech/payments/lending and fraud/abuse prevention
Experience with event-based architectures and monitoring operational signals (queues, webhooks, vendor APIs)
Familiarity with experimentation metrics, funnel analytics, cohort analysis
Python skills for analytics, detection logic, and automation

Company

B9

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B9 runs a payroll disbursement platform enabling on-demand pay for working Americans

H1B Sponsorship

B9 has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (6)
2022 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$11.15M
Key Investors
Sky Light InvestSergio Terentev
2022-07-29Seed· $2.6M
2022-01-30Seed· $0.5M
2021-10-12Seed· $5M

Leadership Team

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Mikhail Matveev
Chief Data Officer & Chief Technology Officer
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