Risk Strategist

Who we are 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. What you’ll do 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 Who you are 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