Fraud Strategy Manager

What you’ll do

As a Manager on the Fraud Strategy team, you will lead a team of high performing and tenured fraud strategists responsible for safeguarding Stripe’s rapidly expanding portfolio of money movement and money management capabilities from fraud. You will create short‑, medium‑ and long‑term strategies that prevent fraud while enabling growth on rapidly expanding Stripe products like Treasury, Issuing, Capital, Crypto and Stablecoins.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Specialized Team: Coach and mentor a world‑class team of fraud strategists, fostering a culture of rigorous, data‑driven fraud system development and supporting their professional growth.
• Own the E2E Fraud Prevention Lifecycle: Oversee the team’s execution across all critical decision points—from new user onboarding, through off‑boarding and funds recovery.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a key partner to Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations, navigating complex cross‑functional fraud prevention development and tuning while ensuring risk appetite alignment with internal goals and external partner requirements.
• Systems Thinking: Deeply understand performance metrics, including loss trends and leading indicators; analyze account activity and monitor portfolio trends to identify opportunities for Stripe to reduce potential fraud losses. Work closely with the core risk team to mitigate potential risks with specific users.
• Executive Communication: Effectively and clearly communicate with internal leadership teams across Stripe and external leadership teams across Stripe’s users, financial and regulatory partners.
• Thought Leadership: Drive innovative fraud strategies that scale across Stripe’s wide range of products, embracing AI technologies to accelerate execution and improve fraud prevention outcomes.

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.

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience, preferably in Financial Services, Payments or FinTech.
• A coach and mentor dedicated to nurturing talent and helping team members perform at their best.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and managing diverse and high‑performing teams.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship‑building skills, with an ability to influence stakeholders across organizations and functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, able to convey complex ideas succinctly in high‑stakes situations both internally with Stripe leadership teams and externally with users, financial partners and regulators.
• Decisive, yet open to learning—making many critical decisions daily, with the understanding that some may be wrong.
• Proven ability to collaborate and execute scaled and high‑complexity projects cross‑functionally with both technical and non‑technical teams.
• Champion for AI and automation—actively seeking opportunities to apply AI‑powered tooling and automation to accelerate risk strategy work, reduce manual toil, and improve the quality and consistency of decisions at scale; setting the example for the team.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong data visualization skills and a willingness to use data and AI tools for analysis and decision‑making.
• Experience in a high‑growth technology company managing risk at scale.
• Experience working in tech, or in another fast‑paced, high‑growth environment.
• Experience building scaled systems to prevent bank account fraud, issuing fraud, and/or crypto/stablecoin fraud.
• Expertise with quantitative tools such as Python or R.