Risk Strategist

About the role

About Stripe 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.

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.

Requirements

• Minimum 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.
• Salary: $185,286 - $229,100/yr.
• This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
• 40 hrs/week
• 50% Telecommuting Permitted.
• Multiple Positions Available.
• Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA02
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