User Risk Strategist, Ecosystem Risk Strategy

Job Summary

Stripe is seeking a Risk Strategist to drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, perform research and analysis, enable user onboarding, challenge the status quo, represent Stripe in external engagements, and execute special projects.

About the Role

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. The Ecosystem Risk Strategy Team focuses on positioning and standards within the broader payments and risk ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, including partnering with product, legal, operations, sales, and partnerships teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive experience for users
• Perform research and analysis to assess current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth
• Enable user onboarding to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and staying hyper-focused on a positive user experience
• Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria
• Represent Stripe in external engagements with critical partners and customers
• Execute special projects and ad-hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities evolve

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in financial services, payments, tech, law or policy
• Experience in a related role (risk, compliance, or product enablement)
• Experience in developing risk strategies and solutions and working with technical (product and engineering) and operations teams to implement them
• Ability to distill complex, ambiguous risk and policy problems into clear, concise, and reliable guidance for internal stakeholders and Stripe users
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing product and engineering, sales, data science, and operations teams — with a proven ability to take complex issues and turn them into actionable next steps, hold others accountable, and meet deadlines
• Demonstrated track record of deriving insights from complex or technical problem spaces and evangelizing actionable product recommendations
• Familiarity with legal, credit, and fraud risk
• Experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL) and proficiency in quantitative analysis geared towards drawing actionable insights from complex datasets
• Advanced degree in law, business, policy, or international relations
• Experience in translating business requirements to technical configurations
• Experience in a client-facing role managing relationships with large, global, and complex organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a remote role
• Experience in an office role

Benefits

• Annual US base salary range: $123,600 - $185,400
• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

Location

• Chicago or Atlanta office
• Remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office)