Risk Strategist - Remote

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. 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. As Stripe continues to develop innovative products that serve businesses of all sizes around the world, risk will increase in complexity and scale. 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.

Under the User Risk Strategy org, you will be part of the Industry Expansion Strategy team. This role will embed within Sales account teams to provide high‑quality risk advisory support to onboard large enterprise users. You will partner with Compliance, Legal, Financial Partnerships, Product and Credit Risk to design and execute on custom risk mitigation strategies for users in the Financial Services vertical. You will also provide expert guidance and analyses to help grow novel business models on Stripe (e.g., predictive markets, P2P money transmission, stablecoin remittance) in a risk‑conscious manner.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about navigating ambiguity, enabling business growth while balancing risk, and is skilled at identifying ways to improve user experience.

Embed within Sales teams to drive pre‑onboarding Risk Due Diligence strategy (incl. AML/KYC and sanctions compliance, credit worthiness) for large, complex Financial Services deals. You will partner with Stripe’s Sales, Legal, Compliance Product, and Financial Partnerships teams to drive sophisticated solutions and ensure a positive experience for Stripe’s largest users.

Evaluate emerging Financial Services use cases for supportability and develop the frameworks that allow Stripe to access these users and markets responsibly.

Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe’s current risk performance and develop and prioritize long‑term strategic plans for future growth.

Execute special projects / ad hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving.

The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

5+ years of professional experience, preferably in Financial Services, Payments or FinTech industries

Familiarity with banking and money movement regulations, including KYC/KYB, AML OFAC compliance, and credit and fraud risk

Experience in a related role (risk, compliance, legal, consulting)

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 regulatory issues into clear, concise, and reliable guidance for stakeholders and Stripe users

Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing product/engineering, sales, data science, and operations teams

Ability to navigate data and people to find answers and drive solutions

Familiarity with card network rules

Hybrid work at Stripe
This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In‑office expectations
Office‑assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. Working remotely at Stripe
A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on‑sites, meet‑ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; medical, dental, and vision benefits;