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Risk Reporting & Innovation Manager
Lead Bank · 🇺🇸 Kansas City, MO; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid); United States -Remote · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 9 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Lead Bank paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Engineering Manager” (Architectural and Engineering Managers) in CA: $285k–$285k, median $285k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 9 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
About Lead Bank Lead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound. Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City. Risk Team at Lead The Risk team helps Lead innovate responsibly by identifying and managing risk across the business. They own oversight of our strategic third-party partners, risk governance across the enterprise, and engagement with our federal and state bank examiners, which is key to maintaining regulatory credibility. Partnering with Product, Program Management, Compliance, Financial Crimes, Legal, and Information Security, they build and maintain the frameworks that allow new products, partners, and technologies to launch safely. Success on the team requires a relentless pursuit of operational excellence, embracing emerging technologies, and pragmatic application of risk and control expertise to both routine and novel problems. Role Description We are seeking a dynamic, strategic, and detail-oriented Risk Reporting and Innovation Manager to lead our continued execution of an AI-first strategy for managing data, risk insights and strategic objectives. This role will also manage the continued evolution of our program reporting, including regulatory examination data, strategic project execution and cross-functional OKR progress throughout the year. This role sits at the center of the Risk Program's operating rhythm, owning the governance materials and committee requirements that keep our risk oversight structure running smoothly, consolidating metrics and reporting into a single, consistent source of truth, and translating program priorities into a strategic roadmap that leadership can act on. As a key leader within the risk organization, you will act as the connective tissue between risk, compliance, and senior leadership, ensuring committees are well-informed, metrics are consistent and trustworthy, and high-visibility initiatives move forward with clear ownership and momentum. This is a highly visible role with direct exposure to senior leadership and risk committees. In this role you will: - Own and continuously refine the AI-adoption strategy within Risk, partnering with risk program leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to leverage leading AI best practices, frameworks and design principles to drive continued development and adoption of dashboards, agents and tools. - Support the ongoing warehousing of key enterprise data leveraged by the risk team, ensuring data is accessed, sanitized and maintained leveraging industry best practices and automation capabilities. - Develop, maintain, and execute a capacity planning framework across Enterprise Risk teams, with regular updates to Senior Management and oversight committees. - Apply a data-driven approach to owning centralized and cross-functional OKR tracking and progress reporting, managing change-management requirements through impact analysis and stakeholder coordination across key initiatives. - Develop program-level KPI reporting including monthly operational overviews for execution-based risk programs. - Own the sequencing and prioritization of risk program initiatives, ensuring cross-functional projects run on schedule and in the ri