Risk Strategist, Platform Risk Strategy

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 org protects and advances Stripe's business, brand, and mission by building and deploying market-leading policies and practices that instill user and partner trust in Stripe while enabling business growth.

What you’ll do

Under the User Risk Strategy org, you will be part of the Platform Risk Strategy team. Our focus is to unlock new expansion opportunities for existing platforms and enable platforms to manage their risk and grow on Stripe. In this role, you will partner with Compliance, Legal, Financial Partnerships, Product and other Risk functions to design and execute on custom risk mitigation strategies for existing Stripe users. You will also provide expert guidance and analyses to help grow novel business models on Stripe, and ensure companies are growing and operating on Stripe in a compliant manner.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about navigating ambiguity, enabling business growth while balancing risk, and is skilled at identifying ways to improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Stripe's Sales, Legal, Compliance Product, and Financial Partnerships teams to drive sophisticated solutions and ensure a positive experience for Stripe's largest users.

• Evaluate emerging industry and supportability use cases and develop the frameworks that allow Stripe users to access these use cases and markets responsibly.

• Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe's current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth.