Risk Partnerships Manager, Local Payment Methods

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.

As Stripe continues to develop innovative products that serve businesses of all sizes worldwide, the complexity and scale of risk will increase. By joining our Risk Partnerships team, you will have a critical role in ensuring the financial and partnership health of the company. You will enable Stripe's growth and collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and address key risks.

Stripe is seeking a Risk Partner Manager to help us scale for the future in a fast-paced environment that is growing rapidly. It is expected that the Risk Partner Manager will quickly become knowledgeable in Stripe's risk policies, including fraud, credit, and brand risk, as well as staying up to date on emerging trends within the industry and competitors. We’re looking for a strategic and highly cross-functional individual to join our North American team and manage Stripe’s Risk relationship with LPM’s

• Establish and maintain trusting and influential relationships with your counterparts at Stripe’s core LPM partners
• Help set Stripe’s strategy for identifying and managing risks associated with our LPM partnerships, including those arising from relevant regulatory and financial partner requirements. 
• Represent Stripe on a variety of risk-related topics before regulators, banking partners, and other key audiences.
• Develop comprehensive written policies and work with global cross-functional teams to ensure development of formalized procedures consistent with policies.
• Build an approach for collecting intelligence on key LPM risk issues, financial partner rules and regulations that should inform our policies and risk management.
• Define strategic priorities and implement effective risk governance practices within Stripe’s defined risk appetite.
• Manage partner-facing component of LPM risk incidents that may arise, ensuring appropriate SME attention to scoping and remediating relevant issues

Your responsibilities will include building strategic relationships with Risk counterparts across our regional payment method partners to support Stripe's risk and commercial initiatives. It is equally important for you to develop trusting and collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders who will provide subject matter expertise and execute across multiple programs and initiatives. Your work will be highly visible to Risk leadership and be instrumental to driving our future growth. 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.

• 7+ years of experience in risk and compliance policy work at organizations in the financial industry, preferably in payments and with scope across all regions.
• Payments risk knowledge and experience engaging with external partners in a risk management capacity.
• You have experience in managing or interacting with financial partners
• An in-depth understanding of local/non card payment methods
• Deep understanding of the types of risks a company like Stripe would face.
• The ability to build relationships with industry counterparts, regulators, and Stripe senior leadership.
• The ability to create a culture of rigor around risk management while helping teams prioritize key deliverables.
• Strong analytical thinking skills and is a good decision maker: can develop and articulate clear logic for decisions and policies.
• A technical mind; experience working in environments that rely heavily on technology driven risk management.
• Strong business focus, with experience leading a risk function in a growth organization.
• Strong leadership skills and displayed ability to create risk culture in a high growth oriented organization.
• The ability to lead with urgency and is in the details on things that matter; can lead teams through time-sensitive and high pressure issues.
• The ability to communicate well to the broader organization; compelling vision and clear organizational interfaces.