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 team is responsible for the health and success of Stripe’s financial platform, managing our exposure credit, fraud, regulatory and the payments ecosystem. Within the Global Partnerships organization, the Risk Partnerships team leads the risk interface with our financial partners and works cross functionally with internal teams to build a best in class risk platform. Through collaboration with partners, we drive sustained value and growth for our users. 

What you’ll do

As the Global Pillar Lead of Expansion for Risk Partnerships, you will lead a team responsible for working with our global financial partners, across banks, card networks, and payment methods, to mutually unlock new business opportunities and user verticals, innovate on shared risk methodologies, and establish / ensure compliance to our agreed risk appetites. You will own the ongoing health of our partnerships with key risk leaders for expansion markets across APAC markets. You will build strategic relationships with the executive level of our financial partners and represent Stripe as a thought leader in the industry.

Responsibilities You will build and execute a long-term strategy for covering risk relationships with our payments-related partners across Card Networks, Banking partners and Local payments methods across expansion markets, primarily in APAC  Make business decisions and policy recommendations informing our risk posture Represent and negotiate our risk approach to banking partners Optimize existing partner-facing risk management capabilities and build new ones Develop a long-term strategy on how we can cultivate mutually beneficial partnerships with our partners to rapidly expand Stripe’s Global Payments and Treasury Network (GPTN) Drive the risk-related partnerships and product discussions with our most important partners to ensure that we have alignment on risk approaches and strategy Unlock business opportunities by innovating on risk-aware solutions to expand our product and user base through partners Develop and manage the processes necessary to allow the organization to operate effectively, which will include partnering on engineering architecture and streamlined processes in support of sound risk management related to our partnerships 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.

Minimum requirements At least 12 years of experience working in a Card network or bank in a payments or consumer banking-related area, or in a role that necessitated deep domain knowledge of payments and consumer risk issues relevant to payments risk 8+ years of people management experience.  Firsthand experience with a Card network Acquirer risk or Payments Banking bank’s consumer and retail financial services in risk management capacity The ability to represent Stripe on complex payments risk and product issues at the executive level with our partners, predominantly based in APAC markets including Japan and Australia    Facilitate design and use of integrated technology and large-scale, data-driven solutions to balance prudent risk management with strategic and commercial objectives  Strong stakeholder management, including ability to navigate difficult situations, negotiating timelines, and influence internal and external stakeholders across organizations and borders Experience managing a rapidly growing team in a high-growth company, and the ability to recruit, manage, and mentor high performing individuals The drive to flourish with minimal guidance; proactive and thrive in uncertain and ambiguous environments