# User Risk Strategist, Ecosystem Risk Strategy

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: US-Chicago; US-Atlanta; US-Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

We're seeking a User Risk Strategist to join our Ecosystem Risk Strategy Team, part of Stripe's First Line of Defense function within the Risk organization. As a User Risk Strategist, you will drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, partnering with cross-functional teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive experience for Stripe's users.

## Responsibilities

- Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, including partnering with Stripe's product, legal, operations, sales, and partnerships teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive experience for Stripe's users

- Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe's current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth

- Enable user onboarding to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and staying hyper-focused on a positive user experience

- Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria

- Represent Stripe in external engagements with our most critical partners and customers

- Execute special projects/ad hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving

## Requirements

- 8+ years of professional experience, preferably in Financial Services, Payments or fintech industries

- Experience in a related role (risk, compliance and/or product enablement)

- 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 risk and policy problems into clear, concise, and reliable guidance for internal stakeholders and Stripe users

- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing product/engineering, sales, data science, and operations teams; proven ability to take complex issues and turn them into actionable next steps, hold others accountable, and meet deadlines

- Demonstrated track record of deriving insights from complex or technical problem spaces and evangelizing actionable product recommendations

- Familiarity with legal, credit, and fraud risk

- Strong executive presence, including experience engaging with leadership

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL) and proficiency in quantitative analysis geared towards drawing actionable insights from complex datasets

- Advanced degree in law, business, policy or other related field

- Experience in translating business requirements to technical configurations

- Experience in a client-facing role managing relationships with large, global, and complex organizations

## Skills

### Required
- Risk strategy
- Financial services
- Payments
- Fintech
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Product enablement
- Data analysis
- SQL
- Quantitative analysis
- Business requirements
- Technical configurations

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