Risk Strategist - Screening (Financial Crimes)
StripeWho 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 Financial Crimes Risk Strategy team owns our first-line AML and sanctions programs globally. We own the end-to-end lifecycle of financial crime controls. We set the global standards that govern how risk is managed across our programs, design and drive the development of controls, infrastructure, and tooling with Engineering, Product, and Data Science, and maintain their effectiveness as our products and the regulatory landscape evolve. We build fast, with data, and with AI integrated into how financial crime risk is detected, managed, and monitored across everything Stripe builds.
What you'll do
As a Risk Strategist on the Financial Crimes Risk Strategy team, you'll own our global screening programs — spanning sanctions, PEP, and negative news — setting the standards that govern how screening risk is managed, designing and driving the controls that operationalize those standards, and ensuring they remain effective as our products and the regulatory landscape evolve. Being effective in this role means going deep on both the domain and the data — we don't separate the two.
You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, other Risk Strategy functions, and Operations to ensure screening considerations are embedded in every product and market decision. Beyond protecting against risk, you'll drive innovation in how Stripe approaches screening — staying ahead of regulatory change and pushing the boundaries of what effective, scalable financial crime risk management looks like at a global payments company.
Responsibilities
- Lead our global sanctions and AML screening strategy — setting the standards that drive screening control design and infrastructure development, and translating requirements across OFAC, EU, UN, OFSI, and other applicable regimes, PEP screening, and negative news screening into actionable first-line programs and controls
- Own the design and ongoing improvement of financial crime controls — including sanctions screening, PEP screening, negative news screening, and digital asset-related safeguards — while continuously improving detection coverage and control performance as our products and the threat landscape evolve
- Embed screening risk requirements into product and infrastructure roadmaps — ensuring financial crime considerations drive product launches, market expansions, and platform de
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