# User Risk Strategist

**Company:** [Stripe](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/stripe)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 162K–204K/yr
**Category:** Operations
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-09-24

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/user-risk-strategist-8230758)

## What you'll do

- Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives
- Research and analyze risk performance for long-term plans
- Increase business enablement for merchants at scale
- Challenge status quo with alternative solutions
- Execute special projects and ad hoc analyses

## What you need

- Bachelor's degree in Law, Business, Policy, or related
- 5+ yrs progressive risk strategy experience
- 5+ yrs developing risk strategies with technical products
- 5+ yrs distilling complex risk/policy problems
- 5+ yrs translating business requirements to technical config

## Job description

### **Who we are**

### **About Stripe**

Stripe, LLC. 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.

### **What you’ll do**

### **Responsibilities**

-   Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, which includes: partnering with the company’s product, legal, operations, sales, and partnerships teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive user experience. 
-   Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe’s current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth. 
-   Increase business enablement, allowing the types of supportable merchants to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and stay hyper focused on a positive user experience. 
-   Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria. 
-   Execute special projects and provide ad hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving.

### **Who you are**

### **Minimum requirements**

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Law, Business, Policy, Development Studies, or a related field, plus five (5) years post-bachelors, progressive related work experience as a Risk Strategist or a related occupation.

Must also have five (5) years of experience in each of the following:

-   Developing risk strategies and solutions and working with technical products, including working with product and engineering, and operations teams for implementation;
-   Distilling complex, ambiguous risk and policy problems into clear guidance for internal stakeholders and company users;
-   Translating business requirements to technical configuration; and
-   Deriving insights from complex or technical problem spaces and evangelizing actionable product recommendations.

Salary: $161,637 - $204,000/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Up to 10% International and Domestic Travel Required.

Multiple Positions Available. 

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends**. NY79**

### **#LI-DNI**

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