Risk Operations Analyst

Stripe · Remote · 4891 Partner Risk Operations · listed September 10, 2025

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The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Remote
Requirements listed
9
Length
486 words

In the posting’s own words

Risk Operations is responsible for managing the risk relationships spanning across global payment method, card, and financial partners. It's our mission to build operational controls to mitigate user and partner risk and enable strategic development opportunities.

What it asks for · 9

  • 5+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, or operations in a fast-moving environment
  • Experience scaling operational processes and driving quantifiable improvements
  • Experience working cross-functionally on complex problems
  • Ability to use data to quantify problems, tell a story, and influence a solution
  • The ability and desire to challenge the status quo
  • Creative thinker who considers problems from a customer perspective while being pragmatic and solutions-oriented when solving them
  • Experience analyzing feedback patterns and using those insights to drive process and tooling improvements
  • You have a lot of ownership, are accountable, and drive towards ambitious goals.
  • Deep empathy for entrepreneurs running a business and motivation to solve problems to empower them

Also a plus

  • Experience with risk assessment and mitigation strategies in a financial technology environment
  • Knowledge of payment processing systems and associated risks

What the job covers

  • Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions
  • Evaluate merchants, from successful venture-backed startups to well-established institutions by assessing suitability to process on Stripe
  • Adhere closely to process while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up on implementation of those improvements
  • Effectively and clearly communicate, including with other Stripe employees, Stripe users, and Stripe financial partners
  • Identify trends and further report these to cross-functional teams to enhance detection systems
  • Contribute to projects to enhance and optimize due diligence strategy systems and tools
  • Help build and scale processes across the risk operations ecosystem
  • Identify gaps in current systems, policies, and strategies, and recommend enhancements and process improvements to mitigate emerging risks through a collaborative approach with stakeholders

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Regulatory
  • Risk management
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional2×

Words the posting leans on

  • risk11×
  • experience5×
  • improvements5×
  • operational4×
  • problems4×
  • process4×
  • requirements4×
  • systems4×
  • financial partners3×
  • identify3×
  • risk operations3×
  • accountable2×
  • build2×
  • compliance2×
  • cross-functional2×
  • drive2×

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