Risk Strategist - Screening (Financial Crimes)

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. 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. The Financial Crimes Risk Strategy team owns Stripe's first-line AML and sanctions programs globally. We own the end-to-end lifecycle of financial crime controls - setting the global standards that govern how risk is managed across our programs; designing and driving the development of controls, infrastructure, and tooling with Engineering, Product, and Data Science; and maintaining their effectiveness as Stripe's products and the regulatory landscape evolve. We build fast, with data, and with AI integrated into how financial crime risk is detected, managed, and monitored across everything Stripe builds.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and ongoing improvement of financial crime controls, including sanctions screening, PEP screening, negative news screening, and digital asset-related safeguards; continuously improve detection coverage and control performance as Stripe's products and the threat landscape evolve
• Embed screening risk requirements into product and infrastructure roadmaps - ensuring financial crime considerations drive product launches, market expansions, and platform decisions across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations
• Drive screening infrastructure and tooling forward by owning requirements, leading execution, and maintaining effectiveness metrics for screening systems and controls; build with observability by design - ensuring KPIs, KRIs, and monitoring thresholds are defined from inception
• Continuously assess and improve screening controls and systems - identifying gaps, recommending enhancements that strengthen detection effectiveness and anticipate regulatory or ecosystem changes, and leading delivery of those enhancements end-to-end
• Champion a technology-forward approach to financial crime risk management - leveraging AI tools, self-serve data analytics, and model governance best practices to improve how risk is detected, monitored, and managed at Stripe
• Stay informed on industry practices and regulatory developments; represent Stripe's sanctions and AML programs to regulators, bank and network partners, and external auditors

Requirements

• We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
• Minimum Requirements
• 7+ years of professional experience in Financial Services, Payments, or Fintech, with at least 5 years in a related role (risk, compliance, or product enablement)
• Deep subject matter expertise in global sanctions compliance, including hands-on experience with OFAC, EU sanctions regimes, UN Security Council designations, OFSI, and other major global frameworks
• Demonstrated strong understanding of screening program design and control execution
• Strong AML screening expertise - proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize PEP screening and negative news screening programs in complex, multi-jurisdiction environments
• Proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize financial crime standards and controls in complex, global organizations
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