.**About Baubap**We are a fast-growing, Mexican fintech startup with the mission to become the bridge to people's financial freedom through technology.We are providing microloans to people in financial need through a fast and efficient process, always treating them with the respect and dignity they deserve.Our long-term vision is to be **the most inclusive digital bank in LATAM with more than 2.5 million clients.****About your role**As the Head of Credit Risk, your primary mission is ensuring the safety and soundness of our loan portfolio.You will be responsible for managing one of our most important business KPIs: the default rate of our portfolio. Your primary mission will be to identify and mitigate external and internal risk factors that could negatively impact the profitability of our loan portfolio.In this role, you will lead a talented technical team and direct them in implementing a robust monitoring framework. This framework will track the performance of our credit risk models and the integrity of our data pipelines and infrastructure. You will be responsible for overseeing the development, testing, and implementation of monitoring processes, fallback solutions, and contingency plans to deal with any emerging risk factors.To ensure that our loan origination policies are protected, you will establish standard procedures that follow best industry practices. You will also make recommendations based on objective data to modify our loan policies in such a way as to improve the health of our loan portfolio.You will work closely with operations, marketing, and legal to ensure that our credit risk policies and procedures comply with regulatory requirements and align with our business strategy.As the Head of Credit Risk, your role will be critical in helping us achieve our mission of becoming the most inclusive bank in LATAM.**Outcomes**- Oversee the performance of the credit risk models developed by our data team in a manner that ensures a profitable and sustainable loan portfolio.- Work with product and data teams to constantly monitor and improve data quality via the integrity of our data processing pipelines by implementing best practices and identifying process improvements.- Monitor and predict the performance of credit risk models so that as a business we remain efficient at managing risk and can rely on short-term portfolio predictions to make key business decisions.- Ensure that our credit risk policies and procedures comply with regulatory requirements and align with our business strategy, sharing your expertise with the rest of the leadership team with a strong focus on risk management.- Provide leadership and mentorship to the credit risk engineering team, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and high ownership