Risk Strategist, Platform Risk Strategy
WFA Digital Insight
Stripe’s Platform Risk Strategy team is looking for a senior mind to bridge compliance, product and sales on some of the company’s biggest accounts. Unlike a typical risk analyst role, this position sits at the intersection of legal frameworks and growth‑focused engineering, tasked with designing custom mitigation plans that let new business models thrive on Stripe’s infrastructure. Candidates will be expected to translate dense regulatory language into actionable guidance while keeping the user experience smooth. The job demands comfort with ambiguity, strong stakeholder influence, and the ability to champion alternative solutions in fast‑moving fintech environments. If you enjoy shaping policy that directly fuels platform expansion, this Stripe opening offers a rare blend of strategic impact and cross‑functional collaboration.
Job Description
Who we are
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.
About the team
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.
What you’ll do
Under the User Risk Strategy org, you will be part of the Platform Risk Strategy team. Our focus is to unlock new expansion opportunities for existing platforms and enable platforms to manage their risk and grow on Stripe. In this role, you will partner with Compliance, Legal, Financial Partnerships, Product and other Risk functions to design and execute on custom risk mitigation strategies for existing Stripe users. You will also provide expert guidance and analyses to help grow novel business models on Stripe, and ensure companies are growing and operating on Stripe in a compliant 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.
Responsibilities
- 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 industry and supportability use cases and develop the frameworks that allow Stripe users to access these use cases 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.
- Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria.
- Represent Stripe in external engagements with our most critical partners and users.
- Execute special projects and ad hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving.
Who you are
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
- 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
- Demonstrated track record of deriving insights from complex or technical problem spaces and evangelizing actionable product recommendations
- The ability to take ownership, be accountable, and lead without formal authority
- Entrepreneurial and curious mindset, strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to operate independently, navigate ambiguity, and solve problems with the end user in mind
- Strong desire to work in a fast-paced and innovative environment
- Strong analytical skills and operating rigor
- Strong executive presence and presentation skills, including experience engaging with leadership
Preferred qualifications
- Experience overseeing execution and delivery of highly strategic programs. Proven ability to take complex issues and turn them into actionable next steps, hold others accountable, and meet deadlines.
- Experience in a client-facing role managing relationships with large, global, and complex organizations.
- Ability to navigate data and people to find answers and drive solutions
- A strong understanding of our business and products, and an ability to research and self-start
- Familiarity with card network rules
How to Stand Out
- Highlight any direct experience with KYC, AML or OFAC compliance in your resume and cover letter.
- Prepare a concise case study showing how you built a risk framework that enabled product growth while meeting regulatory standards.
- Demonstrate your stakeholder‑management skills by describing cross‑team collaborations, especially with product or engineering.
- In interviews, be ready to walk through how you translate ambiguous regulations into clear guidance for non‑legal audiences.
- Research Stripe’s recent platform expansions and be prepared to discuss how you would assess risk for similar initiatives.
- Emphasize remote‑work productivity tools you use (e.g., Slack, Notion, JIRA) to show you can thrive in a distributed environment.
- When negotiating, reference the equity component and remote‑work stipend as part of the total compensation package.
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