New York City, United States
User Risk Strategist
Stripe · New York City · United States
Posted: 9/24/2026 · Last checked: 10/12/2026
Job description
Quoted in full from Stripe's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.
Who we are
About Stripe
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.
What you’ll do
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.
Who you are
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
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