Risk Operations Associate

• Work with merchants, from successful venture-backed startups to well established institutions
• Investigate and action/triage escalations across multiple channels, while providing accurate and timely responses
• Own various operational processes that the team performs such as risk user experience reviews and handling urgent risk-related escalations from internals or Financial Partners, whilst upholding a strong commitment to process excellence and clear documentation
• Identify risk factors and trends and further report these identifiers to the wider risk team to ensure consistency in partnership
• Utilize analytics to optimize strategies which can be enforced across Stripes portfolio
• Maintain regular communication with our cross-functional stakeholders, setting up recurring business meetings as necessary
• Identify gaps in current systems, policies and strategies, and recommend enhancements and process improvements
• Uplevel the internal understanding of Stripe’s real-world impact on users, and improve internal processes and workflows to optimize outsourcing and reduce overall escalation rates
• Build scalable solutions across Stripe to ensure Risk support best practices and standards are successfully implemented throughout the user experience
• Utilize subject-matter expertise to partner with cross-functional teams in developing and improving processes and products related to Risk UX
• Participate in monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews for the Risk UX Operations team

Who you are

We are looking for someone passionate about improving the risk user experience, the payments ecosystem, educating other Stripes in a complex area of risk, naturally curious and has a strong desire to challenge the status quo.

This person will work alongside a global team of risk analysts and strategists and build cross functional partnerships with operations, engineering, sales, treasury, vendor management teams and more!

The right candidate for this role will have a minimum of two years experience in user experience related projects and who has successfully worked on establishing and improving operational processes and user facing workflows.

You will be on the front lines, handling sensitive, complex user-facing issues.

You’ll leverage learnings from these user interactions to build at-scale, proactive, users-first support solutions.

You’ll also help shape team strategy and execute on team objectives using complex project management, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven decision making.

Minimum requirements

• 2+ years of experience in a customer facing role related to operations, compliance, risk, trust & safety or a similar space
• Strong communication skills and can explain highly technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
• The ability and desire to challenge the status quo and work in a deeply ambiguous space
• Experience using data to propose creative solutions to both tactical and strategic problems
• Creativity when solving problems from a customer perspective and is pragmatic when solving them
• Deep empathy for entrepreneurs running a business, and are motivated to solve problems to empower them
• Experience analyzing user feedback patterns and use these insights to drive process and product improvements
• Experience with complex and sensitive user facing issues relating to privacy, user safety, fraud, and supportability
• Experience in SQL/Redshift
• Project/Program Management experience
• You possess experience in risk analysis, investigations or risk operations
• You have excellent English communication skills, both written and verbally
• You excel in analytical thinking and problem solving, with experience using data to make assessments / judgment
• You enjoy working in an in-office environment with strong cross team collaboration and support
• You are able to prioritize and enjoy working in a quick-moving environment
• You are humble and have a proven track record for working well across teams and with external partners
• Flexible for weekend shifts as needed