Risk Strategist, User Risk Strategy
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. The mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.
About the Team
The User Risk Strategy organization 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.
What You'll Do
As part of the Industry Expansion Strategy team, you will unlock revenue by strategically expanding supportability for users in highly regulated industries. This role embeds within Sales account teams to provide high-quality risk advisory support for onboarding large enterprise users. You will partner with Compliance, Legal, Financial Partnerships, Product and Credit Risk to design and execute custom risk mitigation strategies for Financial Services users. You will provide expert guidance on growing novel business models on Stripe (e.g. predictive markets, P2P money transmission, stablecoin remittance) in a risk-conscious manner.
Responsibilities
- Embed within Sales teams to drive pre-onboarding Risk Due Diligence strategy including AML/KYC and sanctions compliance, credit worthiness assessment for large, complex Financial Services deals
- Evaluate emerging Financial Services use cases for supportability and develop frameworks that allow Stripe to access these users and markets responsibly
- Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe's current risk performance and develop long-term strategic plans for future growth
- Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions with key execution criteria
- Represent Stripe in external engagements with critical partners and users
- Execute special projects and ad hoc analyses as needed