Risk Strategist, Financial Crimes
About the role
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.
About the Team
The Risk Strategy team is a global team of strategists and program managers who operate at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations as trusted advisors. The Financial Crimes Risk Strategy team, part of Stripe's first line of defense, ensures that our AML, Sanctions, and related financial crime programs are coherent, defensible, and effective across all products. We design and operationalize policies, standards, and frameworks that allow Stripe to grow responsibly while meeting regulatory expectations and maintaining user trust.
What You'll Do
As a Risk Strategist on the Risk Strategy, Financial Crimes team, you will serve as a key advisor shaping Stripe's global approach to AML and Sanctions risk management. You will translate policies and high-level requirements into practical standards, guide the design of controls, and embed financial crime risk management into products and market strategies spanning both traditional currencies and digital assets. This role balances risk mitigation with business enablement, ensuring that Stripe's products can scale safely while fostering trust with regulators, partners, and users.
Responsibilities
- Support Stripe's global financial crimes strategy by translating AML and Sanctions policies into standards, frameworks, and first-line programs that enable product expansion while ensuring compliance
- Contribute to the design and ongoing improvement of financial crime controls, including transaction monitoring, screening, onboarding/re-onboarding, and digital asset-related safeguards
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and Data Science to align on priorities and ensure financial crime considerations are central to decision-making
- Drive innovation in how Stripe manages financial crime, helping the company stay ahead of industry expectations and regulatory change