Fraud Strategy Architect

Stripe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Fraud Strategist to build strategies mitigating buyer, seller, and account fraud across Stripe products. You’ll enable safer money movement and manage evolving fraud risks at a global payments company.

You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and Risk Strategy to embed controls in products and push innovative, scalable fraud risk management for Stripe worldwide.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in Financial Services, Payments or FinTech.
• Curiosity and passion for risk management with root-cause analysis.
• Decisiveness and learning mindset with high-impact decision making.
• Data-driven judgment using quantitative analysis to defend decisions.
• Empathy for early-stage businesses balancing enforcement with user experience.
• Strong analytical skills to frame complex tradeoffs with data/visualization.
• Advanced SQL skills in business environments.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across teams.
• Holistic thinking to build scalable processes bridging systemic gaps.
• Track record of deriving actionable insights and influencing product direction.
• Ownership mentality and ability to lead without formal authority.
• Proficiency with AI tools to accelerate productivity and automation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor portfolio to identify, mitigate and predict risky behavior.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk Partnerships, and Operations to tailor fraud controls.
• Evaluate products for gaps and propose risk controls for growth.
• Scale risk processes across a large and complex fraud landscape; design and automate workflows.
• Educate Stripe users and guide them on preventing fraud risks to their business.
• Communicate clearly with Stripe users, teams, and regulatory partners.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

AI tools

Ownership mindset

Empathy

Decision making

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Fraud Strategist to build strategies mitigating buyer, seller, and account fraud across Stripe products. You’ll enable safer money movement and manage evolving fraud risks at a global payments company.

You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and Risk Strategy to embed controls in products and push innovative, scalable fraud risk management for Stripe worldwide.