Risk Strategist

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The APAC Risk team helps Stripe launch and grow products responsibly. We work closely with global Product, Partnerships, and Risk teams to identify product risks early, define practical controls, and make risk decisions easier to execute at scale.

What it asks for · 6

• 5+ years of experience in risk, financial services, fintech, product strategy, data, or a related field
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams, especially Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, or Partnerships
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to turn complex information into clear recommendations and next steps
• Familiarity with and a keen interest in building and applying automation, tools, or agent-based workflows to improve processes and outcomes
• Experience using data to investigate problems, assess performance, or inform decisions
• Ability to communicate clearly with a range of stakeholders and build alignment across teams with different priorities

Also a plus

• Experience assessing risk for new products, product launches, or material product changes
• Experience in payments, product risk, platform risk, fraud, or financial crimes
• Experience using and building agentic workflows and using AI tools to simplify processes
• Experience with SQL, data analysis, data science workflows, or building operational tools
• Experience working with technical teams to define requirements and improve internal systems or processes
• Familiarity with risk-control design, monitoring, or policy development

What the job covers

• Identify risk scenarios associated with new products, product changes, and LPM initiatives. Translate those scenarios into clear requirements, controls, and actions for different cross-functional teams
• Improve and automate product-risk workflows through AI tools, data, and agent-based solutions. Define and build consistent, scalable processes with reduced manual load
• Help set the risk strategy and operating approach for product launches, including how teams assess risk, record decisions, and monitor outcomes
• Communicate complex risk issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, with practical recommendations that support responsible product growth
• Help define metrics that track risk exposure, control effectiveness, and operational efficiency
• Build strong working relationships across Risk and Product, and help align teams when trade-offs or ambiguity arise
• Develop expertise that can support adjacent product-risk areas over time, including fraud

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• risk21×
• product18×
• experience8×
• data6×
• building5×
• processes5×
• workflows5×
• define4×
• lpm4×
• tools4×
• build3×
• complex3×
• controls3×
• cross-functional3×
• decisions3×
• financial3×

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