Manager, Risk Business Process

Who 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 Risk Business Process Team sits within the Risk Operations org and is responsible for building the infrastructure to help our Risk Operations organization scale. Specifically, we devise and execute strategies to ensure that a wide range of missing-critical business processes are effective at achieving our dual goals of preventing bad actors from exploiting Stripe’s systems and delivering an exceptional user experience for legitimate users.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead a group of high-performing program managers across multiple workstreams to build and optimize mission-critical business processes that enable Risk to effectively scale while minimizing losses and delivering an exceptional user experience. You and your team will serve as key thought partners in evolving Stripe’s Risk ecosystem and will partner cross-functionally to achieve that evolution. 

Responsibilities

• Partner cross-functionally across our Risk organization to devise and execute strategies to evolve our Risk infrastructure and processes in service of our top-line mission  
• Support the Risk business teams through scaled change management to effectively enable, launch, and scale new processes 
• Lead a team of high-performing program managers across multiple workstreams; this includes providing consistent coaching, holding the team to a high-bar, fostering a strong team culture, and leading hiring efforts when relevant 
• Own the business outcomes and metrics associated with Risk Ops processes including operational efficiency and user experience 
• Transmit and foster our values, serving as a beacon of Stripe’s user-centric philosophy and culture of transparency, empathy, inclusion, and empowerment

Who you are

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.

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Risk Operations, Risk, business process analysis, strategy and operations, consulting, and/or program management
• 5+ years of experience managing teams of program managers 

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with varying priorities and drive creative solutions and commitment to a shared goal
• Skilled at tackling ambiguous problems and defining and executing strategies that clarify the problems and deliver quantifiable business impact
• Strong critical thinking and data-analysis skills with experience navigating large data sets
• Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn
• Excellent communication skills with experience articulating complex topics in an easy-to-consume way