Merchant Fraud Strategist, Stripe

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Intermediate SQL skills and experience in applying these skills in business environments
• Curiosity and passion for risk prevention: if something seems off, you want to investigate what’s going on and solve root problems
• Strong analytical skills - you are passionate about data analysis and can frame business decisions and tradeoffs effectively through quantitative analysis and visualization
• Decisiveness, yet open to learning: you will make many critical decisions every day impacting large numbers of merchants
• Understanding and empathy for the challenges of setting up a new business - you will thoughtfully balance scaled enforcement decisions with user experience
• Excellent communication skills and knows how to be a team player - you are able to convey complex ideas succinctly and work effectively across teams
• Project management skills - you have demonstrated project management skills and the ability to drive execution on projects that span multiple teams both within and outside of Risk

Desirable

• Stripe’s Fraud Risk Strategy Team is committed to minimizing Stripe’s financial losses from fraud attacks. The Fraud Risk Strategy Team is responsible for building and implementing strategies that scalably reduce risk for Stripe and preserve a healthy financial and payments ecosystem, while creating positive experiences for users
• As a Risk Strategist on the Fraud team, you will be directly responsible for decreasing losses emanating from fraudsters operating on Stripe. You will enable safer payments for our users and help Stripe manage payments risks intelligently. The stakes are high, and you will be up against ever-evolving challenges
• You will face some of the most complex and dynamic problems at the company, and the nature of your work will evolve rapidly to combat new and more sophisticated challenges to Stripe’s payments integrity
• Analyze accounts and transactions to identify and predict risky behavior that could result in losses for Stripe or pose challenges to the broader payments ecosystem
• Scale risk processes to cover an increasingly large and complex landscape of payments risks and effectively design strategies and solutions that might range from ML model features to manual review workflows
• Work with internal partners like Engineering, Product, Data Science and Operations to develop solutions that would mitigate fraud risk across different geographies, payment methods and products
• Work with Stripe users to educate them about and help prevent potential risks to their business
• Challenge the payments industry status quo to help enable innovative businesses to flourish online

• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
• Fertility benefits and parental leave

Total funding: $8.7bn

Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.