Risk Partnerships Manager, Stripe

• 8+ years experience in risk, fraud, financial crime, or compliance-related role at a bank, fintech, exchange, wallets, on-ramping and off-ramping, or custodians, with experience working with financial partners and the wider ecosystem
• A deep knowledge of risk and compliance topics for related crypto and stablecoin products
• Ability to represent Stripe on risk, compliance, financial crime, and product with financial partners to maintain positive relationships
• Strong organizational, planning, and communication skills (written and verbal) to drive understanding, collaboration, and issue resolution
• Curiosity and a partnership mindset focused on improving processes and scaling solutions
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including navigating difficult situations, negotiating timelines, and influencing all levels of stakeholders across organizations and borders
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to thrive in uncertain and ambiguous environments
• Ability to drive clarity, plans, and deliver against timeline and commitments in high-stakes situations, with competing priorities
• You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description

Desirable

• We're seeking a team member to collaborate with key Financial Partners throughout North America, Europe, and APAC
• These partners will work with Stripe and Bridge to develop and deliver solutions that will build our stablecoin product suite
• This role will support Stripe goals to enable users to benefit from products such as on-ramp, conversion, storage, movement, and off-ramp, as well as novel use cases for stablecoins to power transactions, cards, and enable our users to grow their businesses using the latest technology
• Risk management is essential for managing these relationships, and this role requires a broad understanding of risk disciplines across Risk, Fraud, Compliance, and Financial Crime
• This role will lead activities to enhance risk and compliance management interactions between Stripe and its partners, manage key aspects of the partner relationships, and execute high-impact initiatives
• This role will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to set objectives, coordinate priorities, and drive execution
• Internally, this role will coordinate closely with product and engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders including Risk, Fraud, Financial Crime and Compliance, Operations, Legal, and Finance
• Externally, this role will work closely with partners' Risk and Compliance teams, including senior management
• Lead risk-focused initiatives in collaboration with global financial partners (banks, networks, payment methods) to build business opportunities and user verticals, develop shared risk and compliance methodologies, and establish and maintain compliance with agreed risk appetites
• Oversee and maintain the health of relationships with key risk, financial crime, and compliance counterparts at partner Financial Partners
• Develop and manage projects and initiatives that support strong partner relationships regarding risk
• Deliver business and policy recommendations that inform our risk posture
• Act as a representative and negotiator of our risk and compliance approach to banking partners
• Enhance existing and develop partner-facing risk management capabilities
• Lead risk and compliance-related partnership and product discussions with Financial Partners to align on risk approaches and strategies
• Identify and pursue business opportunities by creating risk-aware solutions that expand our product and user base through banking partnerships
• Lead and manage interaction with Financial Partners, advocate on behalf of our users to enable the experience we need for them to be successful