Transaction Fraud Strategist

Summary

Join Stripe's Fraud Risk Team as a Risk Strategist and play a crucial role in preventing and mitigating transaction fraud. You will monitor transactions, collaborate with internal teams, scale risk processes, educate users, and challenge industry norms. This role demands strong analytical skills, SQL proficiency, and experience in risk prevention. Success requires excellent communication, project management skills, and a passion for data-driven decision-making. You'll tackle complex problems in a fast-paced environment, contributing to Stripe's mission of increasing the internet's GDP.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• Intermediate SQL skills and experience in applying these skills in business environments
• Strong analytical skills - you are passionate about data analysis and can frame business decisions and tradeoffs effectively through quantitative analysis and visualization
• Curiosity and passion for risk prevention: if something seems off, you want to investigate what’s going on and solve root problems
• Willingness to make these difficult decisions and quickly learn and iterate from these experiences - you are skilled at using data to drive decisions
• Excellent communication skills and knows how to be a team player - you are able to convey complex ideas succinctly and work effectively across teams
• Project management skills - you have demonstrated project-management skills and the ability to drive execution on projects that span multiple teams both within and outside of Risk

Responsibilities

• Monitor portfolio and transactions to identify and predict risky behavior that could result in losses for Stripe and our users
• Collaborate with internal partners like Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations, to tailor fraud risk management techniques to various products, payment methods across the globe
• Scale risk processes to cover an increasingly large and complex landscape of payments risks and effectively design and outsource manual/repetitive workflows
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with quantitative tools such as Python, R, etc
• Experience with payments (particularly working with regional payment methods), risk, or trust & safety
• Experience working with product teams
• Experience working with machine learning teams
• Experience working in fast-paced and rapidly changing start-up environments