Fraud Strategy Manager

Stripe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Manager on the Fraud Strategy team to lead a high-performing group focused on safeguarding Stripe's money movement and management capabilities. You will guide the team to craft short-, medium-, and long-term fraud strategies that enable growth across Treasury, Issuing, Capital, Crypto, and Stablecoins.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in financial services or fintech, strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration skills, and a track record of leveraging AI to improve risk

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Financial Services, Payments or FinTech.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and managing diverse teams.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent communicator in high stakes situations with leadership and external partners.
• Proven ability to drive AI-powered risk strategies at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialized fraud strategy team and mentor its members.
• Oversee the end-to-end fraud prevention lifecycle across onboarding, offboarding, and funds recovery.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Ops to align risk objectives.
• Analyze performance metrics, identify loss trends, and drive improvement opportunities.
• Communicate effectively with internal leadership and external partners and regulators.
• Drive innovative fraud strategies and scale them across Stripe products using AI.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

AI for fraud

Strategic thinking

Decision making

Tools

Python

R

Job description

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

Fraud Strategy is responsible for building scaled fraud mitigation systems that prevent fraud and protect the financial ecosystem, while minimizing disruption to good users. The fraud team's mission is to protect Stripe, our users, and the broader financial ecosystem from actors who abuse Stripe accounts for financial gain.

What you’ll do

As a Manager on the Fraud Strategy team, you will lead a team of high performing and tenured fraud strategists responsible for safeguarding Stripe's rapidly expanding portfolio of money movement and money management capabilities from fraud. You will lead the team to create short, medium and long term strategies that prevent fraud while enabling growth on rapidly expanding Stripe products like Treasury, Issuing, Capital, Crypto and Stablecoins.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Specialized Team: Coach and mentor a world-class team of fraud strategists. You'll be responsible for their professional growth and for fostering a culture of rigorous, data-driven fraud system development.
• Own the E2E Fraud Prevention Lifecycle: Oversee the team's execution across all critical decision points - from new user onboarding, through offboarding and funds recovery
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a key partner to Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations. You will navigate complex cross functional fraud prevention system development and tuning, ensuring our risk appetite aligns with both internal goals and external partner requirements.
• Systems Thinking: Deeply understand our performance metrics including loss trends and leading indicators. Analyze account activity and monitor portfolio trends to identify opportunities for Stripe to reduce potential fraud losses. Understand our fraud controls and strategies to identify opportunities for improvement. Work closely with our core risk team to mitigate potential risks with specific users.
• Executive Communication: Effectively and clearly communicate with internal leadership teams across Stripe, and effectively communicate with external leadership teams across Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial and regulatory partners.
• Thought Leadership: Drive innovative fraud strategies that scale across Stripe's wide range of products. Embrace AI technologies to accelerate execution and improve fraud prevention outcomes.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience, preferably in Financial Services, Payments or FinTech.
• A coach and mentor dedicated to nurturing talent and helping team members perform at their best
• Experience recruiting, developing, and managing diverse and high-performing teams.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills, with an ability to influence stakeholders across organizations and functions.
• Excellent communicator (verbal and written) who is able to convey complex ideas succinctly in high stakes situations both internally with Stripe leadership teams and externally with users, financial partners and regulators.
• Decisive, yet open to learning - you will make many critical decisions every day, even with the knowledge that you will be wrong some of the time.
• Proven ability to collaborate and execute scaled and high complexity projects cross-functionally with both technical and non technical teams.
• Champion for AI and automation - you actively seek opportunities to apply AI-powered tooling and automation to accelerate risk strategy work, reduce manual toil, and improve the quality and consistency of decisions at scale; you set the example for your team in adopting and driving these capabilities.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong data visualization skills and a willingness to use data and AI tools to analyze and make decisions.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company managing risk at scale.
• Experience working in tech, or in another fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience in building scaled systems to prevent bank account fraud, issuing fraud and/or crypto/stablecoin fraud.
• Expertise with quantitative tools such as Python, R, etc.