The opportunity
The Financial Crimes team plays a critical role in ensuring a healthy financial ecosystem and maintaining trust in Stripe's platform. We ensure that prohibited parties cannot utilize our services and identify bad actors engaging in money laundering, terrorist financing, or other financial crimes.
What you'll do
Lead and develop sanctions managers and analysts across regions, ensuring: investigative quality, consistency, and throughput at scale
Own the strategic direction of Stripe's global sanctions program, screening: coverage, alert logic, escalation frameworks, and quality assurance
Drive the sanctions transformation roadmap, identify where manual workflows: and vendor tooling are limiting scale, and lead the shift toward automation and smarter detection
Partner with Engineering and Product as a genuine co-designer, translate: sanctions requirements into tooling inputs, challenge screening logic, and lead operational readiness for new capabilities
Ensure every process and system change is built with audit trails,: explainability, and examiner-readiness by design; lead the function through regulatory exams and supervisory inquiries
Serve as the senior escalation point for complex casework
What they're looking for
- At least 10 years of experience in sanctions compliance or financial crimes,: with senior leadership experience managing cross-regional teams
- Deep expertise in major global sanctions regimes (OFAC, EU, HMT, UN) and sanctions screening methodologies
- Proven track record of improving sanctions program operations
- Experience evaluating or transitioning sanctions tooling, including vendor: platforms and in-house or automated solutions
- Ability to partner credibly with Engineering and Product on tooling design,: screening logic, and workflow automation
- Effective communicator across audiences, regulators, senior leadership, and engineering teams
- Experience with sanctions screening platforms and familiarity with AI-assisted screening tools
- CAMS or equivalent certification
