3130 risk & rewardRemoteFresh role

Transaction Fraud Strategist

Stripe
Chicago, US-Remote, Toronto, Canada-Remote
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OVERVIEW

About the Role

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.

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OVERVIEW

About the Role

Stripe’s Fraud Risk Team is committed to minimizing Stripe’s financial losses from fraud attacks. The Transaction Fraud Team is responsible for building and implementing strategies that scalably reduce risk for Stripe and preserve a healthy payment and financial ecosystem, while creating positive experiences for users.

What you’ll do

As a Risk Strategist on the Transaction Fraud team, you will be directly responsible for preventing, detecting and mitigating Transaction Fraud at Stripe. You will enable safer payments for our users and help Stripe manage payments risks intelligently. The stakes are high, and you will be up against ever-evolving challenges. You will face some of the most complex and dynamic problems at the company, and the nature of your work will evolve rapidly to combat new and more sophisticated challenges to Stripe’s payments integrity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities

Monitor portfolio and transactions to identify, mitigate and predict risky behavior that could result in losses for Stripe, our users, and the payment ecosystem

Collaborating with internal partners like Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations, to tailor fraud risk management techniques to various products, payment methods across the globe

Scale risk processes to cover an increasingly large and complex landscape of payments risks and effectively design and outsource manual/repetitive workflows

Work with Stripe users to educate them about and help prevent potential risks to their business

Challenge the payments industry status quo to help enable innovative businesses to flourish online

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

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REQUIREMENTS

Requirements

5+ years of relevant professional experience

Curiosity and passion for risk management: if something seems off, you want to investigate what’s going on and solve root problems

Decisiveness, yet open to learning: you will make many critical decisions every day impacting large numbers of merchants

Willingness to make these difficult decisions and quickly learn and iterate from these experiences - you are skilled at using data to drive decisions

Understanding and empathy for the challenges of setting up a new business - you will thoughtfully balance scaled enforcement decisions with user experience

Strong analytical skills - you are passionate about data analysis and can frame business decisions and tradeoffs effectively through quantitative analysis and visualization

Intermediate SQL skills and experience in applying these skills in business environments

Excellent communication skills and knows how to be a team player - you are able to convey complex ideas succinctly and work effectively across teams

Ability to think holistically and build out processes to bridge gaps in the system

DESIRABLE

Desirable Qualifications

Expertise with quantitative tools such as Python, R, etc

Experience with payments, risk, or trust & safety

Experience working with product teams

Experience working with machine learning teams

Experience working in fast-paced and rapidly changing start-up environments

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