Manager, Technology Risk and Controls

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 Technology Risk and Controls team ensures compliance, stability and reliability of Stripe’s core infrastructure and technology against audit and regulatory needs. The team builds and maintains a controls library resilient with changing tech stack and risk landscape and performs oversight and monitoring of technology posture and control health.

What you’ll do

You will join one of the teams behind infrastructure platforms used by engineering, security, and business partners at Stripe. You will oversee the development of solutions that may be “from scratch”, built on top of in-house platforms, or leveraging 3rd party solutions. We expect that working along the team’s technical leaders, you will be able to ensure that your team processes to best integrate into Stripe’s technology organization.  We are a highly effective team, consistently delivering high-impact results while genuinely caring for each other. 

Responsibilities

• Work with other Stripe leaders to design and lead the development of processes and controls that best fulfill Stripe’s compliance obligations. 
• Iterate on the risk management processes to bring in best industry practices. 
• Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical compliance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Recruit great program managers and compliance experts, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team. 
• Grow and care for your team, and ensure it’s integrated well into Stripe in accordance with Stripe’s operating principles.
• Help program managers advance in their careers and develop new skills. 
• Contribute to engineering-wide and program management initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering and program management team.

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

• 5+ years of people management experience
• 8+ years of experience in technology risk and compliance management
• Hands-on experience building risk and compliance programs for internal or external customers.
• Expertise in at least 2 major industry security and reliability frameworks such as SOC, SOX, PCI, DORA, ISO-27001 or other comparable standards.
• Experience collaborating with regulatory compliance partners globally.
• Successfully recruited great team members
• The ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication

Preferred qualifications

• Empathetic to customer needs, but visionary enough to not just deliver a faster horse
• Comfortable planning in quarters, and can set a vision for several years
• Excited about collaborating with teammates across Stripe’s organization, to provide a wonderful user experience for key compliance workflows
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners
• Comfortable working with geographically distributed teams
• Problem-solving skills, determination, and a growth mindset