Risk Strategist - Screening (Financial Crimes)
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About the Role
Stripe seeks a Risk Strategist to own global screening programs for sanctions, PEP, and negative news. The role involves setting standards, designing controls, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Data Science.
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Responsibilities
- Lead our global sanctions and AML screening strategy — setting the standards that drive screening control design and infrastructure development
- Own the design and ongoing improvement of financial crime controls — including sanctions screening, PEP screening, negative news screening, and digital asset related safeguards
- Embed screening risk requirements into product and infrastructure roadmaps — ensuring financial crime considerations drive product launches, market expansions, and platform decisions
- Drive screening infrastructure and tooling forward by owning requirements, leading execution, and maintaining effectiveness metrics for screening systems and controls
- Continuously assess and improve screening controls and systems — identifying gaps, recommending enhancements that strengthen detection effectiveness
- Champion a technology forward approach to financial crime risk management — leveraging AI tools, self serve data analytics, and model governance best practices
- Stay informed on industry practices and regulatory developments and represent our sanctions and AML programs to regulators, bank and network partners, and external auditors
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in financial services, payments, or fintech, with at least 5 years in a related role (risk, compliance, or product enablement)
- Deep subject matter expertise in global sanctions compliance, including hands on experience with OFAC, EU sanctions regimes, UN Security Council designations, OFSI, and other major global frameworks
- Demonstrated strong understanding of screening program design and control execution
- Strong AML screening expertise — proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize PEP screening and negative news screening programs in complex, multi jurisdiction environments
- Proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize financial crime standards and controls in complex, global organizations
- Familiarity with model governance concepts — including model documentation, performance monitoring, and validation — and experience leading or contributing to model governance activities
- Experience leading transformative AML, Sanctions, or Transaction Monitoring initiatives (preferred)
- Proficiency with SQL and ability to independently mine and analyze data (preferred)
- Experience with crypto or digital asset products and their associated financial crime risk (preferred)
- Advanced degree or professional certifications (e.g., CAMS, CGSS, CFCS) (preferred)
Full Job Posting
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.
About The Team
- The Financial Crimes Risk Strategy team owns our first line AML and sanctions programs globally.
- We own the end to end lifecycle of financial crime controls.
- We set the global standards that govern how risk is managed across our programs, design and drive the development of controls, infrastructure, and tooling with Engineering, Product, and Data Science.
- We build fast, with data, and with AI integrated into how financial crime risk is detected, managed, and monitored across everything Stripe builds.
Responsibilities
- Lead our global sanctions and AML screening strategy — setting the standards that drive screening control design and infrastructure development, and translating requirements across OFAC, EU, UN, OFSI, and other applicable regimes, PEP screening, and negative news screening into actionable first line
- Own the design and ongoing improvement of financial crime controls — including sanctions screening, PEP screening, negative news screening, and digital asset related safeguards — while continuously improving detection coverage and control performance as our products and the threat landscape evolve
- Embed screening risk requirements into product and infrastructure roadmaps — ensuring financial crime considerations drive product launches, market expansions, and platform decisions across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, Legal, and Operations
- Drive screening infrastructure and tooling forward by owning requirements, leading execution, and maintaining effectiveness metrics for screening systems and controls — building with observability by design and ensuring key performance indicators, key risk indicators, and monitoring thresholds are d
- Continuously assess and improve screening controls and systems — identifying gaps, recommending enhancements that strengthen detection effectiveness and anticipate regulatory or ecosystem changes, and leading delivery of those enhancements end to end
- Champion a technology forward approach to financial crime risk management — leveraging AI tools, self serve data analytics, and model governance best practices to improve how risk is detected, monitored, and managed at Stripe
- Stay informed on industry practices and regulatory developments and represent our sanctions and AML programs to regulators, bank and network partners, and external auditors
Minimum Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in financial services, payments, or fintech, with at least 5 years in a related role (risk, compliance, or product enablement)
- Deep subject matter expertise in global sanctions compliance, including hands on experience with OFAC, EU sanctions regimes, UN Security Council designations, OFSI, and other major global frameworks
- Demonstrated strong understanding of screening program design and control execution
- Strong AML screening expertise — proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize PEP screening and negative news screening programs in complex, multi jurisdiction environments
- Proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize financial crime standards and controls in complex, global organizations
- Familiarity with model governance concepts — including model documentation, performance monitoring, and validation — and experience leading or contributing to model governance activities
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading transformative AML, Sanctions, or Transaction Monitoring initiatives, including global screening program design or transformations (e.g., vendor selection, watchlist management, false positive tuning)
- Proficiency with SQL and ability to independently mine and analyze data to develop risk insights and inform strategy
- Experience with crypto or digital asset products and their associated financial crime risk and regulatory considerations
- Advanced degree or professional certifications (e.g., CAMS, CGSS, CFCS)
Hybrid work at Stripe
- This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
- Office assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users.
- A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices.
Pay and benefits
- The annual US base salary range for this role is $123,600 $185,400.
- Additional benefits may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.
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