Risk Partnerships Manager

Summary

Join Stripe's Risk Partnerships team as a Risk Partnerships Manager and play a critical role in the company’s financial and partnership health. You will be instrumental in enabling new products and payment methods, serving as a subject matter expert in bank sponsor and Issuing programs. Build strategic relationships with risk counterparts at major financial partners and internal stakeholders. Effectively communicate complex financial partner risk requirements to Stripe leadership and represent Stripe’s risk controls to external parties. Contribute to Stripe's risk strategy by proposing process improvements and new policies. This role requires strong stakeholder management, analytical skills, and experience in the payments industry.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience, including 4+ years in the payments industry (Risk Management experience preferred)
• Partner-facing experience with acquiring bank sponsors, card schemes, or additional relevant payment methods in North America (e.g. BNPL, ACH)
• A strong sense of ownership, resilience, and a drive to have an impact
• Experience in managing day to day risk initiatives, requirements and incidents across a variety of internal and external partners
• Strong stakeholder management skills including navigating difficult situations, negotiating timelines, and influencing internal and external stakeholders across organizations and borders
• An analytical, data-driven approach to decision-making – you understand how to partner with Data Science to build metrics and track progress across various monitoring programs
• Demonstrated project/program management skills and a proven track record for building and scaling programs from the ground up
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and relationship building skills. Must have the ability to convey complex ideas succinctly to all audiences
• Ability to prioritize work appropriately and stay focused on the most important and most impactful initiatives at any given time

Responsibilities

• Manage key risk relationships with financial partners including acquiring bank sponsors that enable new products and payment methods
• Build relationships, understand financial partner requirements, and advocate for Stripe’s users and product teams with external stakeholders
• Lead key risk focused initiatives with partners and internal teams to drive successful outcomes
• Effectively communicate complex financial partner risk requirements to Stripe leadership. Ensure these are understood and correctly prioritized by Risk and the broader Global Partnerships team, as well as other cross-functional teams within the organization
• Represent Stripe’s risk controls and processes to bank partners, regulators and other external parties. Develop expertise in Stripe’s risk management systems and maintain a strong understanding of Stripe’s risk posture and evolving technical foundations
• Contribute to Stripe risk strategy objectives by proposing process improvements, new risk policies, capabilities, and other areas of thought leadership to drive the company vision
• Partner with our Financial Partnerships team to collaboratively drive and advocate for risk objectives in balance with business objectives
• Cultivate strong working relationships with colleagues across Risk, Product, Engineering and Operations teams to prioritize, scope and roll out launches
• Manage top priority user escalations and incident remediations, as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience to include risk management across merchant acquiring and card issuing product sets
• Broad understanding of risk preferably including credit, fraud and financial crime risk topics