Responsibilities
- Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, including partnering with product, legal, operations, sales, and partnerships teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive experience for users
- Perform research and analysis to assess current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth
- Enable user onboarding to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and staying hyper-focused on a positive user experience
- Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria
- Represent Stripe in external engagements with critical partners and customers
- Execute special projects and ad-hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in financial services, payments, or fintech
- Experience in a related role (risk, compliance, or product enablement)
- Experience in developing risk strategies and solutions and working with technical (product and engineering) and operations teams to implement them
- Ability to distill complex, ambiguous risk and policy problems into clear, concise, and reliable guidance for internal stakeholders and Stripe users
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing product and engineering, sales, data science, and operations teams — with a proven ability to take complex issues and turn them into actionable next steps, hold others accountable, and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated track record of deriving insights from complex or technical problem spaces and evangelizing actionable product recommendations
- Familiarity with legal, credit, and fraud risk
Nice to Have
- Experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL) and proficiency in quantitative analysis geared towards drawing actionable insights from complex datasets
- Advanced degree in law, business, policy, or other related field
- Experience in translating business requirements to technical configurations
- Experience in a client-facing role managing relationships with large, global, and complex organizations
