Credit Risk, Fraud Strategist
Stripe · South San Francisco · Global Operations · listed October 9, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
3–4 years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$121,600 – $182,400
Requirements listed
8
Length
365 words
In the posting’s own words
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA62
What it asks for · 8
- Payments-related domains, including regional payment methods, risk management, fraud prevention, or trust and safety operations;
- Working with quantitative tools including Python, R or Stata;
- Using SQL;
- Project Management analytical tools including Jira, Asana, and Gantt charts;
- Predictive Analytics;
- Machine Learning;
- A/B Testing; and
- Databricks and Airflow.
What the job covers
- Analyze accounts and transactions to identify and predict risky behavior that could result in losses for Stripe or pose challenges to the broader payments ecosystem.
- Scale risk processes to cover an increasingly large and complex landscape of payments risks and effectively design strategies and solutions that might range from ML model features to manual review workflows.
- Work with internal partners like Engineering, Product, Data Science and Operations to develop solutions that would mitigate fraud risk across different geographies, payment methods and products.
- Work with Stripe users to educate them about and help prevent potential risks to their business.
- Challenge the payments industry status quo to help enable innovative businesses to flourish online.
Tools and skills named
Data
- Airflow
- Databricks
- Experimentation
- Statistics
Languages
- Python
- SQL
Models & research
- Machine learning2×
Ways of working
- Jira
- Testing
Operations & finance
- Project management
Security & compliance
- Risk management
Words the posting leans on
- risk6×
- payments5×
- fraud3×
- business2×
- challenge2×
- engineering2×
- experience2×
- management2×
- operations2×
- payment methods2×
- product2×
- quantitative2×
- related2×
- solutions2×
- tools2×
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