User Risk Strategist, Ecosystem Risk Strategy
Job Summary
Stripe is seeking a dedicated individual to join the Ecosystem Risk Strategy Team within the User Risk Strategy org. This role involves driving risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, performing research and analysis, enabling user onboarding, challenging the status quo, and representing Stripe in external engagements.
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 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
- 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 environment
Location
- Chicago
- Atlanta
- Remote in United States
Company Information
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 company's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and they have a staggering amount of work ahead. The User Risk Strategy org protects and advances the 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.