About the Company
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, which includes: partnering with the company's product, legal, operations, sales, and partnerships teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive user experience.
- Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe's current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth.
- Increase business enablement, allowing the types of supportable merchants to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and stay hyper focused on a positive user experience.
- Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria.
- Execute special projects and provide ad hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving.
Candidate Profile & Mindset
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Law, Business, Policy, Development Studies, or a related field, plus five (5) years post-bachelors, progressive related work experience as a Risk Strategist or a related occupation.
Must also have five (5) years of experience in each of the following
- Developing risk strategies and solutions and working with technical products, including working with product and engineering, and operations teams for implementation;
- Distilling complex, ambiguous risk and policy problems into clear guidance for internal stakeholders and company users;
- Translating business requirements to technical configuration; and
- Deriving insights from complex or technical problem spaces and evangelizing actionable product recommendations.
Salary: $161,637 - $204,000/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.
Up to 10% International and Domestic Travel Required.
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. NY79
About Stripe
Stripe, founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison in South San Francisco and Dublin, builds financial infrastructure for the internet. Its APIs let millions of businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, prevent fraud with Radar, and move money with Connect and Treasury. Valued at $65B+ after its 2024 rounds and processing over $1T annually, Stripe is the default for marketplaces, SaaS and AI startups. In Web3, Stripe's crypto on-ramps and USDC payouts bridge traditional checkout with on-chain treasury. Teams emphasize written clarity, rigorous productcraft and owning money movement that must work every time. In addition to global payments infrastructure, Stripe invests heavily in crypto developer tools, USDC stablecoin settlement rails, and automated merchant payouts.