Senior Staff Product Manager, Risk

Overview

In this role you lead cross-Risk and cross-Stripe initiatives to redefine how Stripe and its users manage risk. You’ll shape infrastructure and product direction, translating ambiguity into actionable plans and measurable outcomes. You will partner with engineering, data science, and ML leaders to build scalable risk solutions and drive adoption across teams. This is an opportunity to influence risk strategy at scale and mentor product managers while advancing Stripe’s product discipline. You will work at the intersection of AI, data, and financial services to enable safer growth for millions of businesses.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-leverage, cross-team problems and set clear product and technical direction with measurable outcomes
• Lead major cross-Risk and cross-Stripe initiatives from shaping to delivery, adoption, and iteration
• Lead changes to Risk’s approach to leveraging data and AI for scalable risk identification and mitigation
• Partner with engineering, data science, and ML leaders to shape architecture, data foundations, models, APIs, and product experiences
• Help product teams across Stripe build on Risk capabilities while guiding reusable infrastructure and product decisions
• Define multi-year strategy with Risk leadership, identifying key bets and sequencing investments
• Build alignment among teams with different goals, resolving tradeoffs without formal authority
• Coach and mentor PMs, elevating product judgment, technical depth, and execution
• Advance Stripe’s product management discipline by improving problem definition, strategy, and cross-organizational delivery

Key requirements

• Track record of delivering high-impact, transformational initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problems, set direction, and drive execution
• Strong technical judgment across data, machine learning, AI, APIs, platforms, and architecture
• Experience partnering with senior engineering, data science, and product leaders on technical and strategic direction
• Strong product judgment for foundational infrastructure and user-facing experiences
• Deep quantitative fluency to use data and causal reasoning for evaluating tradeoffs
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive execution without direct management authority
• Experience mentoring PMs and improving product thinking across teams
• Exceptional written and verbal communication for stakeholders and executives
• High agency, curiosity, and hands-on, low-ego working style

• Strategic thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Influence without authority
• Data science and ML fundamentals
• AI applications to risk at scale
• APIs and platform architecture

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