Strategic Risk Operations Analyst

Stripe; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Risk Operations Analyst to investigate complex, high-risk cases and provide tailored risk recommendations. You will work across Risk Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Product to balance regulatory needs with Stripe's growth.

You will identify systemic patterns, help design scalable playbooks, and communicate findings clearly to stakeholders while maintaining a Users First mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in risk management, compliance, fraud, financial operations, or related field.
• Ability to navigate gray-area and non-binary decision-making in complex risk environments.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize data into a risk narrative.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally on complex problems and driving alignment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to articulate complex risk findings.

Responsibilities

• Investigate complex, high-risk gray-area user cases; apply deep risk judgment.
• Develop custom, evidence-based risk recommendations when standard frameworks do not fit.
• Identify systemic trends across cases; propose scalable, cross-functional solutions.
• Collaborate with Risk Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Product to mitigate risk.
• Engage with users empathetically, balancing regulatory needs with partner requirements.
• Clearly communicate risk findings to internal and external partners, including Stripe leadership.
• Contribute to design and improvement of SSO processes, decision frameworks, and tooling.
• Build and maintain documentation, procedures, and playbooks for scalability.
• Identify gaps in systems and policies; propose enhancements with stakeholders.

Skills

Risk management

Compliance

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

User communication

Problem solving

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Data analysis tools

AI tools

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Risk Operations Analyst to investigate complex, high-risk cases and provide tailored risk recommendations. You will work across Risk Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Product to balance regulatory needs with Stripe's growth.

You will identify systemic patterns, help design scalable playbooks, and communicate findings clearly to stakeholders while maintaining a Users First mindset.