Risk Operations Analyst - RBO
Stripe · Remote · 3110 User Policy Operations · listed September 22, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
3+ years
Where
Remote
Requirements listed
6
Length
429 words
In the posting’s own words
The User Operations Policy team operationalizes and oversees the enforcement of payments standards and policies to ensure compliant and safe product usage, minimizes merchants’ violations and proactively manages reputation and regulatory risk.
What it asks for · 6
- Minimum 3 years of experience in either risk assessments and operations, or driving scale in a high risk environment.
- Comfortable working independently under pressure and navigating ambiguity.
- Ability to influence, collaborate, and communicate effectively across multiple stakeholders.
- Passion for proactively identifying gaps and driving process and product improvements, collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams.
- Working knowledge of SQL or other data analysis tools, and ability to analyze data to identify patterns and insights.
- Deep empathy for entrepreneurs running a business, and are motivated to solve problems to empower them.
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 implementation of those improvements
- Effectively and clearly communicate, cross-functionally, with Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial partners
- Identify trends and further report these to cross functional teams to enhance detection systems
- Lead initiatives to enhance and optimize review processes, policies, and tools
- Help build and scale processes across the risk operations ecosystem
- Identify gaps in current systems, policies and strategies, and recommends enhancements and process improvements to mitigate emerging risks through a collaborative approach with stakeholders
Tools and skills named
Ways of working
- Cross-functional3×
Security & compliance
- Regulatory2×
Languages
- SQL
Words the posting leans on
- risk8×
- identify4×
- improvements4×
- operations4×
- policies4×
- process4×
- ensure3×
- processes3×
- stakeholders3×
- communicate2×
- cross-functional2×
- data2×
- driving2×
- effectively2×
- enhance2×
- financial partners2×
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