About the opportunity

We are seeking a highly driven Steering & Planning Associate for our Customer Risk Lifecycle (CRL) domain, helping achieve N26’s ambition to be a pioneer in the prevention of Financial Crime.

This presents a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge initiatives in an ever-changing space to safeguard N26 customers from fraud, scams, and digital identity attacks, and safeguard the bank against money launderers and money mules through their whole risk lifecycle.

You will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between strategy and execution, helping N26 grow and run better by translating ambitious goals into clear KPIs and tangible results. In this role, you will be part of a high-impact team that acts as a strategic partner to leadership, driving value and business resilience across our core risk and compliance lines.

If you are interested in learning how we leverage technologies like Machine Learning and Generative AI end-to-end—from a front-end UX perspective to back-end and staff tooling at onboarding, device pairing, payment, and card transactions—this position is for you! You will be working on initiatives that are at the heart of all risk-based decisions that support new and existing product propositions while ensuring compliance with future regulations.

In this role, you will:

• Help ensure the Anti Financial Crime Strategy is well-defined, owning and refining the segment strategy to enable data-driven trade-offs across the Customer Risk Lifecycle.
• Act as a subject matter expert, developing a deep understanding of business drivers, infrastructure, and processes related to financial crime prevention and staff investigations.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing workflows and performance metrics to identify inefficiencies, streamline processes, implement automation, and support scalable business growth.
• Monitor KPIs and SLAs to ensure alignment with company objectives, proactively reviewing data and performance insights.
• Identify and prioritize key product and strategic initiatives to deliver against our KPIs, uncovering opportunities to optimize the user experience and risk-rate customers effectively.
• Manage and maintain critical vendor and external service provider relationships, ensuring strong collaboration, performance tracking, and compliance with SLAs and risk management protocols.
• Develop business cases to evaluate the cost, impact and value of new opportunities.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, ensuring strong project management, clear ownership, timely delivery, and continuous optimization.
• Monitor performance and optimize outcomes, including product KPIs, unit economics, and external partner delivery against SLAs.