About this role
Who we are
About Stripe
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.
About the team
The Risk Partnerships team is an essential part of Stripe’s Global Partnerships organization. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key partner banks to manage risk for Stripe’s business activities. These banking partnerships are essential to enable Stripe to accept and make payments, provide credit, move & store money and develop new products and solutions to meet our users’ needs. We work across a broad range of risk and compliance topics including; credit, fraud, regulatory, financial crime, reputational, product and operational risks.
What you’ll do
We are seeking a new team member to collaborate with key banking partners throughout the UK, Europe and Stripe’s global partner network. These partners will work with Stripe to develop and deliver solutions that will build our Global Payments and Treasury Network. This role will support Stripe's goals to enable users to send and receive payments domestically and internationally, store funds securely, earn yield on those funds, and enable multi-currency fund flows.
Risk management is essential for managing these relationships, and this role requires a broad understanding of risk disciplines across banking activities, including accepting and making payments, money storage & transmission, and multi-currency/cross border fund flow.
This role will lead activities to enhance risk management interactions between Stripe and its partners, manage key aspects of the partner relationships, and execute high-impact initiatives.
This role will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to set objectives, coordinate priorities and drive execution. Internally, this role will coordinate closely with product and engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders including Risk, Fraud, Financial Crime & Supportability, Operations, Legal and Finance. Externally, this role will work closely with Partners' Risk & Compliance teams, including senior management.
Responsibilities
• Lead risk-focused initiatives in collaboration with global financial partners (banks, networks, payment methods) to:
• Foster new business opportunities and user verticals
• Innovate on shared risk methodologies
• Establish and maintain compliance with agreed risk appetites
• Oversee and maintain the health of relationships with key risk counterparts at partner banks
• Develop and manage projects and initiatives that support strong