User Risk Strategist, Deal Advisory

As a User Risk Strategist in Stripe's Deal Advisory team, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Financial Crimes, Product, Partnerships, Legal, Sales, and Data Science—to design and implement strategies that enhance Stripe's risk controls and user experience. Your role involves providing expert guidance and analyses to support business growth while maintaining a risk-conscious approach. Key responsibilities include embedding within Sales teams to drive due diligence strategies for large, complex financial services deals, conducting research and analysis to assess current risk performance, developing and prioritizing long-term strategic plans, challenging existing processes by proposing alternative solutions, representing Stripe in external engagements with critical partners and users, and executing special projects and ad hoc analyses as new initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities arise.

The ideal candidate possesses over five years of professional experience, preferably in the Financial Services, Payments, or FinTech industries, with a background in risk, compliance, legal, or consulting roles. Essential qualifications include experience in developing risk strategies and solutions, the ability to distill complex regulatory issues into clear guidance, strong stakeholder management skills, a demonstrated track record of deriving insights from complex problem spaces, and the capacity to take ownership and lead without formal authority. Additional preferred qualifications encompass experience overseeing strategic programs, managing relationships with large, global organizations, proficiency with tools like SQL, Salesforce, and Jira, and familiarity with card network rules, banking regulations, KYC/KYB, and AML/OFAC compliance.