Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
As Stripe continues to develop innovative products that serve businesses of all sizes around the world, risk will increase in complexity and scale. The User Risk Strategy organization protects and advances Stripe’s business, brand, and mission by building and deploying industry-leading policies and practices that instill user and partner trust in Stripe while enabling business growth.
What you’ll do
As a leader on this team, you will have a deep understanding of Stripe’s risk policies, systems, and controls, which include areas such as partnerships, regulatory, credit, and fraud risks. You will develop, manage, and execute on high impact initiatives to improve Stripe’s risk controls and user experience. You will provide expert guidance and analyses to the business and to our most strategic customers to enable Stripe to grow in a risk-conscious manner.
The Risk Standards team plays a critical role in ensuring a healthy financial ecosystem for businesses around the world. We are looking to hire an experienced people leader who is passionate about managing people, the payments ecosystem, educating others in complex areas of risk and has experience working cross-functionally with teams such as Product, Engineering, Operations, and Policy teams. The right candidate for this role will have a minimum of 5+ years experience in risk management and the payments ecosystem and 3+ years experience managing teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team that drives risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives that are designed to advance and scale our risk standards and controls while ensuring a positive experience for Stripe’s users
- Develop a team of Strategists and their risk projects to design standards strategies that balance risk and reward
- Enable user onboarding to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and staying hyper focused on a positive user experience
- Help manage Stripes portfolio by developing a deep understanding of regulatory and financial partner requirements across industries, geographies, and partner models
- Partner with multiple stakeholders and cross functional teams including Product, Engineering, Operations, and Policy teams to prioritize and maximize the impact of your projects
- Represent Stripe in external engagements with our most critical partners and customers
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- At least 7+ years of professional experience, preferably in financial or tech sectors, particularly within a risk management or revenue enablement function
- Experience in a related role (risk, compliance and/or product enablement)
- Experience in developing risk strategies and programmatic solutions and working with technical (product and engineering) and operational teams
- Ability to distill complex, ambiguous risk problems into clear, concise, and reliable guidance for internal stakeholders and Stripe users
- Extensive experience developing user and product requirements and implementation designs based on risk/reward tradeoffs
- Entrepreneurial and curious mindset, strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong desire to work in a fast paced and innovative environment
- A “Stripe-first” mentality - ability to marry a “culture of compliance” with a curiosity about how to best enable our product and GTM teams
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in translating business requirements to technical configurations
- Experience overseeing execution and delivery of highly-strategic programs; proven ability to take complex issues and turn them into actionable next steps, hold others accountable, and meet deadlines
- Experience delivering execution and delivery of risk standards and controls designs
- Ability to take complex issues and turn them into actionable next steps
- Proficiency in one of the following: Card network rules and regulations, merchant acquiring rules and regulations, KYC/KYB, AML OFAC compliance
- Advanced degree in law, business, policy or other related field
