Risk Strategist - Screening (Financial Crimes)

Stripe
Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving","Influencing"]

Stripe’s Risk Strategist will own global screening programs across sanctions, PEP, and negative news, partnering with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to embed screening risk into product roadmaps. You’ll design and drive controls, leverage AI and data analytics, maintain observability, and push innovative, scalable financial crime risk management for Stripe’s global payments platform.

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2 months ago

Risk Strategist - Screening (Financial Crimes)

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Job Summary

Stripe’s Risk Strategist will own global screening programs across sanctions, PEP, and negative news, partnering with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to embed screening risk into product roadmaps. You’ll design and drive controls, leverage AI and data analytics, maintain observability, and push innovative, scalable financial crime risk management for Stripe’s global payments platform.
Location: Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead Stripe’s global sanctions and AML screening strategy — setting the standards that drive screening control design and infrastructure development, and translating requirements across OFAC, EU, UN, OFSI, and other applicable regimes, PEP screening, and negative news screening into actionable first-line programs and controls
  • •Own the design and ongoing improvement of financial crime controls, including sanctions screening, PEP screening, negative news screening, and digital asset-related safeguards; continuously improve detection coverage and control performance as Stripe’s products and the threat landscape evolve
  • •Embed screening risk requirements into product and infrastructure roadmaps — ensuring financial crime considerations drive product launches, market expansions, and platform decisions across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations
  • •Drive screening infrastructure and tooling forward by owning requirements, leading execution, and maintaining effectiveness metrics for screening systems and controls; build with observability by design — ensuring KPIs, KRIs, and monitoring thresholds are defined from inception
  • •Continuously assess and improve screening controls and systems — identifying gaps, recommending enhancements that strengthen detection effectiveness and anticipate regulatory or ecosystem changes, and leading delivery of those enhancements end-to-end

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of professional experience in Financial Services, Payments, or Fintech, with at least 5 years in a related role (risk, compliance, or product enablement)
  • •Deep subject matter expertise in global sanctions compliance, including hands-on experience with OFAC, EU sanctions regimes, UN Security Council designations, OFSI, and other major global frameworks
  • •Demonstrated strong understanding of screening program design and control execution
  • •Strong AML screening expertise — proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize PEP screening and negative news screening programs in complex, multi-jurisdiction environments
  • •Proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize financial crime standards and controls in complex, global organizations
  • •Familiarity with model governance concepts — including model documentation, performance monitoring, and validation — and experience leading or contributing to model governance activities
  • •Technology-forward mindset — experience leveraging AI tools, automation, and advanced analytics in a risk or compliance context; aligned with Stripe’s commitment to integrating AI across all functions
  • •Demonstrated experience developing risk solutions and working closely with cross-functional teams to translate them into enforcement
Experience:7+ yearsFintechPaymentsFinancial services
Skills:CollaborationLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingInfluencing
Certifications:CAMSCGSSCFCS
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLAIData analytics

Company Brief

Stripe
Provides payment processing APIs and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Powers online payments for millions of companies from startups to Fortune 500s.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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