Global Financial Crimes Screening Strategy Lead

Borderless; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Risk Strategist to own global sanctions and AML screening programs, setting standards and implementing controls across OFAC, EU, UN, OFSI, and PEP/negative news screening. You will collaborate with Product, Eng, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to embed risk requirements in roadmaps and drive scalable risk management globally.

You will champion a tech-forward approach with AI, analytics, and model governance, staying ahead of regulatory changes while ensuring

Qualifications

• 7+ years in financial services or fintech with risk/compliance experience
• Deep sanctions and AML screening expertise across OFAC, EU, UN, OFSI
• Experience designing and operating screening programs
• Familiarity with model governance concepts
• Ability to influence product roadmaps with compliance requirements

Responsibilities

• Lead our 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 — while continuously improving detection coverage and control performance as our 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 — building with observability by design and ensuring key performance indicators, key risk indicators, 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
• Champion a technology-forward approach to financial crime risk management — leveraging AI tools, self-serve data analytics, and model governance best practices to improve how risk is detected, monitored, and managed at Stripe
• Stay informed on industry practices and regulatory developments and represent our sanctions and AML programs to regulators, bank and network partners, and external auditors

Skills

Sanctions compliance

AML screening

Risk management

Data analysis

Model governance

Regulatory knowledge

Education

CAMS

CGSS

CFCS

Tools

SQL

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Risk Strategist to own global sanctions and AML screening programs, setting standards and implementing controls across OFAC, EU, UN, OFSI, and PEP/negative news screening. You will collaborate with Product, Eng, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to embed risk requirements in roadmaps and drive scalable risk management globally.

You will champion a tech-forward approach with AI, analytics, and model governance, staying ahead of regulatory changes while ensuring