Financial Crimes Controls & Risk Lead — AI-Driven

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an Enterprise Compliance and Risk Controls Lead for financial crimes governance, based in California. You will design and oversee controls across both Bridge and Privy platforms and drive policy governance, risk assessments, and operating processes to strengthen the control environment.

Collaborate with Legal, Risk, Product, Engineering, and Internal Audit to translate regulatory requirements into practical controls, and identify AI-enabled improvements while ensuring proper

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, risk, internal controls, audit, or a related field in regulated financial services.
• Experience with financial crimes risk assessments, control design or testing, policy governance, issue management, or audit readiness.
• Familiarity with financial crimes requirements, ideally including AML, sanctions, KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, and/or the Travel Rule.
• Strong interest in or experience using AI and automation to improve compliance, controls, risk, or operational workflows responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Bridge and Privy controls are appropriately designed, evidenced, governed, and implemented.
• Drive relevant financial crimes policy governance across Stripe entities, including policy development, approvals, and change management.
• Provide critical inputs for the Financial Crimes Risk Assessment across Stripe entities, including planning, stakeholder coordination, documentation, governance, and reporting.
• Translate financial crimes regulatory and risk requirements into clear, practical controls, policies, risk assessments, and operating processes.
• Partner with Financial Crimes, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Internal Audit to identify gaps, manage issues, and improve the control environment.
• Identify responsible AI and automation opportunities across controls, policy, and risk-assessment work including document review, obligation mapping, evidence triage, change analysis, and trend reporting.
• Ensure AI-enabled workflows retain appropriate human oversight, data protection, accountability, and auditability.

Skills

Financial crimes compliance

Risk management

Internal controls

Policy governance

Audit readiness

AI in compliance

Job description

Stripe is seeking an Enterprise Compliance and Risk Controls Lead for financial crimes governance, based in California. You will design and oversee controls across both Bridge and Privy platforms and drive policy governance, risk assessments, and operating processes to strengthen the control environment.

Collaborate with Legal, Risk, Product, Engineering, and Internal Audit to translate regulatory requirements into practical controls, and identify AI-enabled improvements while ensuring proper