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StripePayments Fraud Investigator
Stripe is hiring a Payments Fraud Investigator to protect its financial ecosystem by examining high-risk accounts and spotting different kinds of fraud. The job means deep-dive…
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Stripe is hiring a Payments Fraud Investigator to protect its financial ecosystem by examining high-risk accounts and spotting different kinds of fraud. The job means deep-dive reviews of merchant accounts, leading cross-functional projects, and working with stakeholders to strengthen fraud detection and prevention across the company's scale. Stripe describes its platform as financial infrastructure for companies of every size, from big enterprises to young startups, that use it to take…
Job Description
Stripe is hiring a Payments Fraud Investigator to protect its financial ecosystem by examining high-risk accounts and spotting different kinds of fraud. The job means deep-dive reviews of merchant accounts, leading cross-functional projects, and working with stakeholders to strengthen fraud detection and prevention across the company's scale.
Stripe describes its platform as financial infrastructure for companies of every size, from big enterprises to young startups, that use it to take payments and grow sales. The posting lists the job as remote and full time. The investigator helps shape the investigative methods and programs the team depends on, using knowledge of how fraud typically unfolds.
Core work covers reviewing bad merchants, card testing schemes, account takeover attempts and other fraud methods, and running root-cause reviews of systems, policies and strategies. The investigator also responds to urgent incidents, presents updates in business reviews, condenses complicated cases for executives, delivers case decisions to users and to partner financial firms, and travels to vendor sites to train analysts. Candidates need at least five years of complex investigation experience, three years of leading risk-related projects, and willingness to travel to vendor sites for as much as 10 percent of the year.
Responsibilities
- Review high-risk accounts to uncover bad merchants, card testing schemes, account takeover attempts and other fraud
- Lead root-cause reviews of gaps in systems, policies and strategies, and propose process and program fixes
- Drive cross-functional projects that improve operating procedures and tools across the global analyst network
- Respond to pressing fraud events, including surges of card testing and account takeovers, and handle the user side of large attacks
- Present progress in business reviews, brief executives on complicated cases, and deliver case decisions to users and partner firms
- Travel to vendor sites to run analyst training and share knowledge
Requirements
- Five-plus years of hands-on work running complicated investigations
- Three-plus years managing risk initiatives alongside teams across functions
- Ability to use data to propose tactical and strategic solutions
- A proactive approach to questioning existing processes and advocating for improvements
- A user-centric yet pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset
- Able to travel to vendor sites as much as 10 percent of the year
Qualifications
- Background fighting online fraud or card-absent fraud across payments, online retail, social platforms or fintech
- Know-how in probing card-testing rings and account-takeover schemes
- Practice building fraud-and-risk workflows, tools for analysts, and written procedures
- Strong SQL skills for analyzing data and building dashboards and visualizations
Core Skills
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this role remote?
Yes. The posting lists the role as remote and full time.
Does the posting state a salary?
No. The posting does not specify a salary or pay range.
How much travel is involved?
Travel to vendor sites can take up to 10 percent of the year, for analyst training.
Which skills are required and which are bonuses?
Five or more years of complex investigation experience and three or more years leading risk projects are minimum requirements. Card-not-present fraud experience and strong SQL are preferred qualifications, which the posting calls a bonus rather than a requirement.
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