Staff Product Manager, Risk

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The Risk team builds trust, an essential ingredient for Stripe’s mission to increase the GDP of the internet. We make it possible for millions of businesses to access and use Stripe’s financial infrastructure while protecting our users, financial partners, and the broader ecosystem from harm.

What it asks for · 9

• A track record of identifying and delivering high-impact, transformational product or technical initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to bring clarity to deeply ambiguous problems, set a compelling direction, and drive work through execution and adoption.
• Strong technical judgment across data, machine learning, AI, APIs, platforms, and system architecture.
• Experience partnering deeply with senior engineering, data science, and product leaders to shape both technical direction and product strategy.
• Strong product judgment across foundational infrastructure and user-facing experiences, with a focus on building capabilities that solve real user problems.
• Deep quantitative fluency and the ability to use data and causal reasoning to understand problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and measure outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, build alignment across organizational boundaries, and drive execution without direct management authority.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate compelling strategies, influence technical and executive audiences, and make complex topics clear.
• High agency, intellectual honesty, curiosity, and a low-ego, hands-on working style.

Also a plus

• An engineering background, preferably with a focus on machine learning.
• Experience applying AI and machine learning to complex, high-stakes problems at scale.
• Experience with fraud, credit, payments, financial services, trust and safety, or another domain involving complex decisions and asymmetric consequences.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

What the job covers

• Identify high-leverage problems that cut across teams, turn ambiguity into clear product and technical direction, and establish measurable outcomes.
• Lead major cross-Risk and cross-Stripe initiatives from initial shaping through delivery, adoption, and iteration.
• Lead changes in Risk’s approach to using data and AI to accurately identify and mitigate risk at scale.
• Partner deeply with engineering, data science, and machine learning leaders to shape architecture, data foundations, models, APIs, and product experiences.
• Help product teams across Stripe build on Risk’s capabilities quickly and effectively while guiding Risk teams toward coherent, reusable infrastructure and product decisions.
• Build alignment among teams with different goals and constraints, resolve difficult tradeoffs, and drive progress without relying on formal authority.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• product22×
• risk15×
• problems9×
• technical9×
• experience7×
• users7×
• build6×
• data6×
• deeply6×
• financial6×
• infrastructure6×
• businesses5×
• leaders5×
• manage5×
• direction4×
• drive4×

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