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 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. As Stripe's user base and global footprint grows dramatically, this team is essential for mitigating risk and upholding regulatory compliance, directly contributing to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet safely and responsibly. What you’ll do As the Global Sanctions Lead, you will own and evolve an established sanctions function across geographies. You will be responsible for leading regional teams, driving the next phase of sanctions transformation, and partnering with Engineering and Product to modernize how sanctions operations work at Stripe. Responsibilities 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, chall
Risk Strategist - Screening (Financial Crimes)
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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 Financial Crimes Risk Strategy team owns our first-line AML and sanctions programs globally. We own the end-to-end lifecycle of financial crime controls. We set the global standards that govern how risk is managed across our programs, design and drive the development of controls, infrastructure, and tooling with Engineering, Product, and Data Science, and mai
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Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models and manage money movement.
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