Risk Strategist - Financial Crimes
$123.6k/y-$185.4k/y
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Summary
Stripe is seeking a Risk Strategist - Financial Crimes to join their team in Chicago, IL. The role involves shaping Stripe's global approach to AML and Sanctions risk management, ensuring compliance while enabling product expansion.
About the Role
As a Risk Strategist on the Risk Strategy, Financial Crimes team, you will translate policies into practical standards, guide the design of controls, and embed financial crime risk management into products and market strategies. You will partner with various teams to ensure financial crime considerations are central to decision-making and drive innovation in managing financial crime.
About You
Required:
- 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 AML, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring, including regulatory compliance requirements and practical program execution.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and operationalize financial crime standards and controls in complex, global organizations.
- Familiarity with crypto, digital assets, or other emerging technologies and their evolving regulatory landscape.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to challenge existing processes and propose pragmatic, innovative alternatives.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across functions and geographies.
- A results-oriented, accountable mindset, capable of driving ambitious goals while motivating and leading others.
- Comfort operating in a dynamic, high-growth environment with shifting priorities and limited precedent.
- A Bachelor's Degree.
Preferred:
- Experience leading transformative AML, Sanctions, or Transaction Monitoring initiatives, including advanced analytics, model development and validation, or global screening transformations.
- Proven track record overseeing the execution and delivery of programs or projects, with the ability to translate complex issues into actionable next steps.
- Comfort working with data-driven approaches to risk, including proficiency with SQL.
- Advanced degree or professional certifications (e.g., CAMS, CFCS) considered a plus.
Benefits
- Equity and company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses.
- 401(k) plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Wellness stipends.
Stripe
Stripe builds programmable financial services. 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. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
Chicago, IL