Program Manager, Third Party Risk

About the role

The Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) team at Stripe is responsible for defining, maintaining, and overseeing the third-party risk framework, policy, and inventory. They focus on assessing and managing risks through relationships with third parties, adhering to regulatory guidance, and driving operational efficiencies across risk teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the Global Third Party Risk Management Program, Policy, and Framework, ensuring alignment with relevant regulations, standards, and best practices
• Launch and mature nascent risk domains to increase overall program maturity
• Design and support an enhanced oversight model for specialized third-party types including Partnerships and Contingent Workers
• Design and enhance elements of the existing Third Party Risk Framework including offboarding and incident monitoring, among other areas
• Build and oversee the third-party performance management function and define performance standards, including metric templates and ongoing monitoring activities, to ensure third-party health
• Design effective reporting to monitor and communicate the third-party risk program status, key issues, and remediation plans to governance committees, senior leaders, and relevant stakeholders
• Serve as subject matter expert and coordinator of system business requirements among risk domain owners and stakeholders—prioritizing effective requirements (Users First and Risk Focused)

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in risk or compliance roles, preferably third-party risk in a regulated environment
• Proven experience managing distinct projects and programs, with particularly strong skills in stakeholder management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills—including the ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders across the business such as risk domain owners, internal audit, and the broader risk and compliance community
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, including navigating leadership and interpersonal working relationships
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Able to handle multiple assignments while comfortably managing ambiguity
• Able to assess and analyze data in order to solve problems and draw insightful conclusions

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience building third-party risk programs
• Previous experience implementing programs around regulatory frameworks
• Understanding of risk program elements including policy and risk appetite creation and maintenance
• Understanding of risk areas such as information security, privacy, business continuity, finance, reputation, operational, and ESG
• Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools