Risk Partnerships Manager

Summary

Join Stripe's Risk Partnerships team as a Risk Partnerships Manager, playing a critical role in the company's financial health and growth. You will manage key risk relationships with banking partners, enabling new products and payment methods. This role requires expertise in bank sponsor and issuing programs, a deep understanding of Stripe's risk policies, and the ability to build strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will lead risk-focused initiatives, communicate complex requirements, and represent Stripe's risk controls to partners and regulators. The position demands strong analytical, communication, and project management skills, along with extensive experience in the payments industry.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience, including 4+ years in the payments industry (Risk Management experience preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of the banking and clearing landscape across multiple geographies with specific focus on transaction banking, e-money, safeguarding, multi currency and cross border payments
• Broad understanding of risk preferably including credit, fraud and financial crime risk topics
• 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 our payments related banking partners that enable new products and payment methods
• Develop a long-term strategy on how we can cultivate mutually beneficial partnerships with our banking partners to rapidly expand Stripe’s Global Payments and Treasury Network (GPTN)
• 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