Staff Data Analyst
About the role
Define the metrics, data products, and analytical frameworks needed as Stripe brings risk capabilities to platforms and connected accounts at scale.
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Risk leadership to ensure data investments align with the product roadmap.
You will design metrics, pipelines, and data products that serve as the analytical backbone for risk decisioning.
You will own the definition, reliability, and visibility of our most important risk metrics.
Establish a canonical set of north star and operational metrics and ensure they are trustworthy, well-documented, and consistently surfaced to the right audiences.
Build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps these metrics accurate as our data and product landscape evolves, including clear ownership, alerting on regressions, and scalable pipelines that reduce the cost of keeping insights current.
You will also own and evolve Stripe's risk experimentation strategy by defining what we test, how we measure, and how we learn.
Ensure we can rigorously evaluate the impact of changes to risk policies, merchant journeys, and risk models across diverse merchant populations.
Finally, you will mentor and raise the bar for the Data Analysts on the team.
Set technical and strategic standards. Guide junior and senior analysts on how to frame ambiguous problems, structure analyses for maximum impact, and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years in Data Analytics, Data Science, or related roles
- Track record of defining and driving data strategy across multiple teams
- Deep expertise in SQL; proficiency in Python
- Strong ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches and communicate findings to executive stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across engineering, product, and business teams
- Experience building and scaling data products (metrics frameworks, pipelines, dashboards) that become operational infrastructure, not one-off analyses
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience in risk, trust & safety, or related domains and understanding of risk in the Fintech space
- Familiarity with causal inference and A/B testing in non-standard environments (e.g., where randomization is constrained by risk considerations)
Benefits
- Hybrid work at Stripe
- Pay and benefits
- Working remotely at Stripe
- Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.