Risk Strategist

Stripe•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Stripe, LLC. 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, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field, plus 5 years of post-bachelor’s, progressive related experience in a Financial Risk Specialist or related occupation.
3 years of experience working with, aggregating, and running analysis on large data sets, including utilizing SQL and common BI tools (e.g. Tableau)
3 years of experience managing external relationships with financial institutions, users, and law enforcement;
3 years of experience leading cross-functional initiatives with engineering, operations, external partners, etc. to develop and implement robust fraud controls;
3 years of experience working with product teams as a risk subject-matter expert/advisor in fraud management to ensure products can be launched and scaled safely; and,
3 years of experience identifying and defining problems, building project plans to address these problems, and managing the implementation of their solutions.

Responsibilities

Conceptualize and execute risk strategies for Stripe’s rapidly growing merchant portfolio by harnessing deep subject matter expertise in risk management
Leverage SQL skills to drive quantitative analysis and data visualizations
Quantify the impact to Stripe’s direct profit and losses for each recommended strategy
Provide recommendations to create new or optimize existing portfolios of risk models and/or policies by managing multiple risk programs that require cross functional collaboration with engineering and non-engineering teams
Diagnose and mitigate high-risk payment incidents (e.g. non-compliance with financial partner requirements), emerging policy trends, and exploits as a result of new product launches
Develop deep understanding of Stripe’s growing suite of products to formulate risk requirements and assess overall risk posture prior to launching new products to market
Represent Stripe during financial partner audits and oversight visits. Distill Stripe’s most complex risk systems into highly digestible and easily understood concepts for auditors.