Staff Product Manager, Risk

About Stripe and Risk

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Identify high-leverage problems spanning teams, clarify product and technical direction, and establish measurable outcomes.
• Lead major cross-Risk and cross-Stripe initiatives from initial shaping through delivery, adoption, and iteration.
• Lead changes in how Risk uses data and AI to identify and mitigate risk at scale.
• Partner with engineering, data science, and machine learning leaders on architecture, data foundations, models, APIs, and product experiences.
• Help Stripe product teams use Risk capabilities effectively while guiding Risk teams toward coherent, reusable infrastructure and product decisions.
• Align teams with different goals and constraints, resolve difficult tradeoffs, and drive progress without formal authority.

Minimum requirements

• Track record identifying and delivering high-impact, transformational product or technical initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
• Ability to clarify deeply ambiguous problems, set direction, and drive work through execution and adoption.
• Strong technical judgment across data, machine learning, AI, APIs, platforms, and system architecture.
• Experience partnering with senior engineering, data science, and product leaders to shape technical direction and product strategy.
• Strong product judgment across foundational infrastructure and user-facing experiences, focused on building capabilities that solve user problems.
• Deep quantitative fluency and ability to use data and causal reasoning to understand problems, assess tradeoffs, and measure outcomes.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, build alignment across organizational boundaries, and drive execution without direct authority.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, high agency, intellectual honesty, curiosity, and a low-ego, hands-on working style.

Preferred qualifications

• An engineering background, preferably focused on machine learning.
• Experience applying AI and machine learning to complex, high-stakes problems at scale.
• Experience in fraud, credit, payments, financial services, trust and safety, or a domain involving complex decisions and asymmetric consequences.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

In-office expectations

• Office-assigned employees in most locations are expected to spend at least 50% of the month in their local office or with users.
• Attendance expectations may vary by role, team, and location; some teams work entirely from the office, and the hiring manager will discuss any greater attendance requirements.

Pay and benefits

• The annual salary range in the primary location is CAD 188,300–282,500; the range may vary for other locations and may be narrowed based on experience, qualifications, and location.
• Benefits or additional compensation may include equity, company bonus or sales incentives, retirement plans, health benefits, and wellness stipends.