Manager, Global Sanctions

ABOUT THE ROLE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, enabling millions of companies to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. As a key member of Stripe's Financial Crimes team, you will play a critical role in ensuring a healthy financial ecosystem and maintaining trust in Stripe's platform. WHAT YOU'LL DO As the Manager, Global Sanctions, you will own and evolve an established sanctions function across geographies. Your responsibilities will include leading regional teams, driving the next phase of sanctions transformation, and partnering with Engineering and Product to modernize how sanctions operations work at Stripe. Specifically, you will be responsible for: - Leading and developing sanctions managers and analysts across regions, ensuring investigative quality, consistency, and throughput at scale - Owning the strategic direction of Stripe's global sanctions program, including screening coverage, alert logic, escalation frameworks, and quality assurance - Driving the sanctions transformation roadmap, identifying areas where manual workflows and vendor tooling are limiting scale, and leading the shift toward automation and smarter detection - Partnering with Engineering and Product to translate sanctions requirements into tooling inputs, challenge screening logic, and lead operational readiness for new capabilities - Ensuring every process and system change is built with audit trails, explainability, and examiner-readiness by design - Serving as the senior escalation point for complex casework - Maintaining deep awareness of evolving sanctions regulations globally and translating changes into program requirements ahead of deadlines - Reporting on sanctions program health, emerging typologies, and team performance to senior leadership WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be considered for this role, you will need at least 10 years of experience in sanctions compliance or financial crimes, with senior leadership experience managing cross-regional teams. You should have deep expertise in major global sanctions regimes and sanctions screening methodologies, as well as a proven track record of improving sanctions program operations. Experience evaluating or transitioning sanctions tooling, including vendor platforms and in-house or automated solutions, is also essential. WHY REMOTE As a remote employee, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere and collaborate with colleagues across the globe. You will be part of a dynamic and growing team that is shaping the future of financial infrastructure. BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Comprehensive health plan - Parental leave - Education stipend - Life insurance - Equipment stipend - Flexible schedule