Strategy & Operations, Risk

<h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.</span></p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>Stripe is looking for a senior product strategist-operator to support the Risk team. Risk is central to Stripe’s ability to grow safely: the team protects Stripe and our users while enabling durable, responsible growth. In this role, you will have a front-row seat to high-stakes business and product decisions and a direct hand in helping the team identify emerging risks, prioritize the right interventions, and deliver measurable outcomes. If you are a technical strategist who moves quickly, brings clarity to ambiguity, and stays with difficult problems through resolution, we’d love to hear from you.</p> <p>You will partner closely with Risk leaders and cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Operations, and Strategy. You will create strategic clarity around Risk’s performance, connect business and product signals, pressure-test plans, and mobilize teams when results are off track. The role combines rigorous analysis with hands-on execution: you will not only identify where Stripe should act, but also help drive the work required to change the trajectory.</p> <p>We are looking for someone who can connect risk signals, data, financial performance, user impact, and product and business strategy. You can find the signal in the noise, form a clear point of view, and either address the problem directly or convene the right people to solve it quickly.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <p>In this role, you will work across Risk and Stripe’s technical and user-facing teams to improve decision-making, strengthen execution, and help Stripe manage risk while serving users well.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the signal: Define and maintain the metrics that matter for Risk’s in-year performance, spanning risk outcomes, business impact, operational health, and user experience. Build a disciplined “morning read”—a curated, high-signal view that surfaces emerging issues and drives timely action beyond standard dashboarding.</li> <li>Lead deep-dive interventions: Run focused “surge” efforts to diagnose and unbl