Risk Partnerships Manager, Stablecoin

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Risk Partnerships professional to collaborate with key Financial Partners across North America, Europe, and APAC. This role drives risk and compliance initiatives for stablecoin-related activities and related products, coordinating with internal product and engineering teams as well as external partner risk teams.

The candidate will lead risk and compliance discussions, manage partner relationships, and pursue opportunities that balance user growth with strong risk controls

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in risk, fraud, financial crime, or compliance-related role at a bank or financial institution.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-focused initiatives with global financial partners to build opportunities and ensure compliance.
• Oversee relationships with risk, financial crime, and compliance counterparts at partner banks.
• Manage projects that support strong partner relationships regarding risk and compliance.
• Deliver business and policy recommendations to inform risk posture.
• Represent and negotiate our risk and compliance approach with banking partners.
• Enhance partner-facing risk management capabilities.
• Lead discussions with financial partners to align risk strategies.
• Identify opportunities by creating risk-aware solutions that expand product and user base.
• Coordinate interactions with stakeholders to enable successful partner outcomes.

Skills

Risk management

Fraud prevention

Regulatory compliance

Financial crime

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

The Risk Partnerships team is an essential part of the Global Partnerships organization at Stripe. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key Financial Partners, including banks, to manage risk and compliance for Stripe business activities. These Financial Partners are essential to enable Stripe and its affiliates (including Bridge) to effectively manage the lifecycle of stablecoins (on-ramp, conversion, movement, off-ramp), to develop products and solutions to meet our users' needs. We work across a broad range of risk and compliance topics including credit, fraud, regulatory, financial crime, reputational, product, and operational risks.

What you'll do

We're seeking a team member to collaborate with key Financial Partners throughout North America, Europe, and APAC. These partners will work with Stripe and Bridge to develop and deliver solutions that will build our stablecoin product suite. This role will support Stripe goals to enable users to benefit from products such as on-ramp, conversion, storage, movement, and off-ramp, as well as novel use cases for stablecoins to power transactions, cards, and enable our users to grow their businesses using the latest technology.

Risk management is essential for managing these relationships, and this role requires a broad understanding of risk disciplines across Risk, Fraud, Compliance, and Financial Crime.

This role will lead activities to enhance risk and compliance management interactions between Stripe and its partners, manage key aspects of the partner relationships, and execute high-impact initiatives.

This role will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to set objectives, coordinate priorities, and drive execution. Internally, this role will coordinate closely with product and engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders including Risk, Fraud, Financial Crime and Compliance, Operations, Legal, and Finance. Externally, this role will work closely with partners' Risk and Compliance teams, including senior management.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-focused initiatives in collaboration with global financial partners (banks, networks, payment methods) to build business opportunities and user verticals, develop shared risk and compliance methodologies, and establish and maintain compliance with agreed risk appetites
• Oversee and maintain the health of relationships with key risk, financial crime, and compliance counterparts at partner Financial Partners
• Develop and manage projects and initiatives that support strong partner relationships regarding risk
• Deliver business and policy recommendations that inform our risk posture
• Act as a representative and negotiator of our risk and compliance approach to banking partners
• Enhance existing and develop partner-facing risk management capabilities
• Lead risk and compliance-related partnership and product discussions with Financial Partners to align on risk approaches and strategies
• Identify and pursue business opportunities by creating risk-aware solutions that expand our product and user base through banking partnerships
• Lead and manage interaction with Financial Partners, advocate on behalf of our users to enable the experience we need for them to be successful

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

• 8+ years experience in risk, fraud, financial crime, or compliance-related role at a bank, fin