Fraud Strategy Manager

About the role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. The fraud team’s mission is to protect Stripe, its users, and the broader financial ecosystem from actors who abuse Stripe accounts for financial gain.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Specialized Team: Coach and mentor a world-class team of fraud strategists. You'll be responsible for their professional growth and for fostering a culture of rigorous, data-driven fraud system development.
• Owning the E2E Fraud Prevention Lifecycle: Oversee the team's execution across all critical decision points—from new user onboarding, through offboarding and funds recovery.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a key partner to Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations. You will navigate complex cross-functional fraud prevention system development and tuning, ensuring our risk appetite aligns with both internal goals and external partner requirements.
• Systems Thinking: Deeply understand our performance metrics including loss trends and leading indicators. Analyze account activity and monitor portfolio trends to identify opportunities for Stripe to reduce potential fraud losses. Understand our fraud controls and strategies to identify opportunities for improvement. Work closely with our core risk team to mitigate potential risks with specific users.
• Executive Communication: Effectively and clearly communicate with internal leadership teams across Stripe, and effectively communicate with external leadership teams across Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial and regulatory partners.
• Thought Leadership: Drive innovative fraud strategies that scale across Stripe’s wide range of products. Embrace AI technologies to accelerate execution and improve fraud prevention outcomes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience, preferably in Financial Services, Payments or FinTech.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and managing diverse and high-performing teams.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills, with an ability to influence stakeholders across organizations and functions.
• Excellent communicator (verbal and written) who is able to convey complex ideas succinctly in high stakes situations both internally with Stripe leadership teams and externally with users, financial partners and regulators.
• Decisive, yet open to learning — you will make many critical decisions every day, even with the knowledge that you will be wrong some of the time.
• Proven ability to collaborate and execute scaled and high complexity projects cross-functionally with both technical and non technical teams.
• Champion for AI and automation — you actively seek opportunities to apply AI-powered tooling and automation to accelerate risk strategy work, reduce manual toil, and improve the quality and consistency of decisions at scale; you set the example for your team in adopting and driving these capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong data visualization skills and a willingness to use data and AI tools to analyze and make decisions.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company managing risk at scale.
• Experience working in tech, or in another fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience in building scaled systems to prevent bank account fraud, issuing fraud and/or crypto/stablecoin fraud.
• Expertise with quantitative tools such as Python, R, etc.