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

The Risk team is responsible for the health and success of Stripe’s financial platform,  managing our exposure credit, fraud, regulatory and the payments ecosystem. Within the Risk organization, the Partnerships Risk Strategy team leads the risk interface with our financial partners and works cross functionally with internal teams to build a best in class risk platform. Through collaboration with risk partners, we drive sustained value and growth for our users.

What you’ll do

As the Global Head of Risk Partnerships & Strategy, you will lead a team responsible for working with our global financial partners to mutually unlock new business opportunities and user verticals, innovate shared risk methodologies, and establish / ensure compliance to our agreed risk appetites. You will own the risk initiatives across Stripe products, systematically making step-change improvements in the breadth and depth of Stripe’s risk management capabilities. You will build strategic relationships with the executive level of our financial partners and represent Stripe as a thought leader in the industry. 

Key Responsibilities

• You will build and execute a long-term strategy
• Make the business decisions and policies around risk approaches 
• Represent and negotiate our risk approach to payment partners
• Optimize existing operational levers and build new ones
• Develop a long term strategy on how we can evolve mutually beneficial partnerships with our financial partners to rapidly expand Stripe’s Global Payments and Treasury Network (GPTN)
• Drive the risk-related partnerships and product discussions with our most important financial partners to ensure that we have alignment on risk approaches and strategy
• Unlock business opportunities by innovating on solutions to expand our product and user base
• Develop and manage the processes necessary to allow the organization to operate effectively, which will include partnering on engineering architecture and streamlined process

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

• The ability to represent Stripe at the executive level with a wide range of external partners and government agencies
• Deep, credible, and rewarding partnerships with financial institutions globally
• A demonstrated ability at balancing prudent risk management with commercial outcomes 
• A clear contributor to building and managing the P&L and trajectory of an expansive business
• Strong stakeholder management including navigating difficult situations, negotiating timelines, and influencing internal and external stakeholders across organizations and borders
• Experience managing a rapidly growing global team in a high-growth company, and the ability to recruit, manage, and mentor high performing individuals
• The drive to flourish with minimal guidance; proactive and thrive in uncertain and ambiguous environments
• Minimum 15 years of experience