Risk Strategist, User 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'll be part of the Industry Expansion Strategy team. Our focus is to unlock revenue by strategically expanding supportability for users in highly regulated industries. You'll embed within Sales account teams to provide high-quality risk advisory support to onboard large enterprise users. You'll partner with Compliance, Legal, Financial Partnerships, Product, and Credit Risk to design and execute on custom risk mitigation strategies for users in the Financial Services vertical. You'll also provide expert guidance and analyses to help grow novel business models on Stripe (e.g., predictive markets, P2P money transmission, stablecoin remittance) in a risk-conscious manner.

We're 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

• Embed within Sales teams to drive pre-onboarding Risk Due Diligence strategy (incl. AML/KYC and sanctions compliance, creditworthiness) for large, complex Financial Services deals.

• You'll 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.