The opportunity
The Risk team builds trust, an essential ingredient for Stripe’s mission to increase the GDP of the internet. We make it possible for millions of businesses to access and use Stripe’s financial infrastructure while protecting our users, financial partners, and the broader ecosystem from harm.
What you'll do
Identify high-leverage problems that cut across teams, turn ambiguity into: clear product and technical direction, and establish measurable outcomes.
Lead major cross-Risk and cross-Stripe initiatives from initial shaping: through delivery, adoption, and iteration.
Lead changes to Risk’s approach to leveraging data and AI to accurately identify and mitigate risk at scale.
Partner deeply with engineering, data science, and ML leaders to shape: architecture, data foundations, models, APIs, and product experiences.
Help product teams across Stripe build on Risk’s capabilities quickly and: effectively, while guiding Risk teams toward coherent, reusable infrastructure and product decisions.
Partner with Risk leadership to define multi-year strategy, identify the: organization’s most important bets, and make clear investment and sequencing decisions.
What they're looking for
- A track record of identifying and delivering high-impact, transformational: product or technical initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to bring clarity to deeply ambiguous problems, set a: compelling direction, and drive work through execution and adoption.
- Strong technical judgment across data, machine learning, AI, APIs, platforms, and system architecture.
- Experience partnering deeply with senior engineering, data science, and: product leaders to shape both technical direction and product strategy.
- Strong product judgment across foundational infrastructure and user-facing: experiences, with a focus on building capabilities that solve real user problems.
- Deep quantitative fluency and the ability to use data and causal reasoning to: understand problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and measure outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders, build alignment across: organizational boundaries, and drive execution without direct management authority.
- Experience mentoring and developing PMs and raising the quality of product: thinking and execution across teams.