Program Manager, Third Party Regulatory Risk

Who we are

About Stripe 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.

About The Team The Third Party Risk Management team is accountable for defining, maintaining, and overseeing the third party risk framework, policy, and inventory in accordance with management expectations and best practices. We are focused on assessing and managing risks exposed through our relationships with suppliers, adhering to regulatory guidance, and driving operational efficiencies across risk teams.

What you’ll do

The purpose of the Program Manager, Third Party Regulatory Risk is to support the development of our regulatory compliance programs and control effectiveness of the existing framework for identifying, assessing, and managing third party risks to protect Stripe.

This role will partner with cross-functional Risk Domain Owners, Procurement sub-teams, Legal, and other stakeholders to apply a unified Third Party Risk Framework across risk and compliance areas.

This person will refine our existing regulatory compliance programs across the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and other regulatory regimes.

Responsibilities

• Refine existing regulatory compliance programs across the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and other regulatory regimes pertaining to third party suppliers.
• Carry out supporting oversight activities of the regulatory compliance programs across third party suppliers (e.g., due diligence, criticality, performance monitoring, etc.)
• Point of contact and subject matter expert for all internal and external audit and exam requests.
• Project management of external communications with Users, external auditors, and external regulatory examiners; including where cross functional input is required.
• Responsible for ensuring timely resolution of identified recommendations and findings.
• Support an oversight model for global Outsourced Service Providers as defined by global regulators (Central Bank of Ireland, etc).
• Conduct regular assessments of program processes to identify gaps or areas for improvement.
• Participate in the supplier incident response framework in partnership with stakeholder incident response teams to consistently respond to incidents, track to resolution, and monitor remediation, where required.
• Stay updated on emerging trends, regulations, and industry standards related to third party risk management and integrate them into Stripe's program.

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

• 5+ years of experience in risk and compliance.
• Subject matter expertise in third party risk and compliance including specific focus on US and EMEA regulations, especially DORA, in addition to other global jurisdictions.
• Proven experience managing distinct projects and programs, with particularly strong skills in stakeholder management.
• Comfortable cleaning, organizing, analyzing, and structuring data for reporting across different audiences (e.g., Regulators, Leadership)
• Experience in leading the delivery of regulatory programs in a financial services environment.
• Understanding of compliance and regulatory (payments) obligations including third party, outsourcing and operational resilience
• Experience working in ambiguous, quickly scaling environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills—including the ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders across the business
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, including navigating leadership and interpersonal working relationships
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills
• Ability to handle multiple assignments and assess and analyze data in order to solve problems, comfortably managing ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience building third party risk programs
• Previous experience implementing programs around regulatory frameworks
• Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €87,100 - €130,700. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.