4378 SDC - Fraud Operations

Stripe

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 As a leading player in the internet economy, Stripe has a responsibility to protect itself, our users, end customers, and the broader financial ecosystem from harm. Fraud Operations proactively reduces fraud, making it difficult and unprofitable for fraudsters to carry out attacks through Stripe. We build scalable, high-judgement investigation and review operations while minimizing user friction. We work across products, customer segments, and markets and serve as a core pillar of Stripe’s risk strategy. WHAT YOU’LL DO Stripe is hiring a Team Lead to develop a team of Operations Associates (OAs) within Fraud Operations in Bangalore. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational execution and performance of your workflow(s), including queue health, SLA attainment, and decision quality. This role requires staying close to the work, remaining hands-on in complex casework (QA and targeted production), modeling high-quality decisioning, providing real-time coaching, and serving as the first-line escalation owner. You will also drive unit-level operational excellence. To be a fit, you will have a coaching mindset, proven ability to communicate at different levels, a track record of driving operational performance, and a passion for inspiring a team to deliver outstanding results. RESPONSIBILITIES * Manage a team of Operations Associates; set clear expectations, coach performance, and build a high-judgement culture rooted in strong decisioning and customer empathy. * Own individual performance metrics of Operations Associates and ensure the team consistently meets throughput, SLA, and quality targets. * Perform specific unit-level execution, including: defining, clarifying, and evolving core processes, leading team meetings, and performing root cause analyses for defects. * Support team operations including hiring, onboarding, scheduling, and intra-day coverage planning to meet SLAs; provide interview feedback and help maintain a high hiring bar. * Maintain hands-on casework at a level that enables effective coaching and escalation coverage, without compromising core people-lead responsibilities and team performance management. * Own and evolve SOPs and decision frameworks for your workflow(s); drive process adherence and consistency through clear guidance, change management, and reinforcement mechanisms. * Represent your workflow(s) in cross-team forums, surface operational pain points, propose improvements, support rollouts, and drive adoption within your team. * Serve as the primary escalation point for complex or time-sensitive cases within your unit, in partnership with global fraud stakeholders * Drive process adherence and consistency across your team through robust quality programs and calibration. * Participate in leader development and represent Bangalore workflows in global enablement sessions/onsites as needed. WHO YOU ARE You are a hands-on people leader and operational owner who thrives in a fast-paced fraud investigation environment. You run a strong performance cadence through clear metrics, coaching, and rigorous decision quality. You can take ambiguous operational problems, use data to diagnose root causes, and drive changes that stick, through influence, alignment, and follow-through, not just instruction. You bring sound judgment, calm execution under pressure, and a bias toward data-backed solutions and measurable improvements in both fraud outcomes and user experience. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * Experience leading fraud, risk, trust & safety, or investigations operations in a high-scale environment. * Proven ability to manage a team of frontline operations associates and own their individual performance/productivity. * Experience with payments, risk, compliance, or financial industry operations. * Proven ability to define and operationalize team-level metrics (e.g., accuracy/quality, SLAs, throughput) and use data to drive team priorities. * Strong operational background in new process launches, service delivery, and building operating models at the unit/team level. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting operational updates and representing the team in escalations in English. * Skill and credibility doing the core work of a user facing team with a high bar for quality, and a willingness to lead by example. * At least 3+ years of direct people management experience; this includes handling performance management and proactively coach/mentor individuals. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Strong fraud domain depth across investigation workflows, risk vectors, and decision frameworks * Experience in optimizing unit-level fraud review operations through process redesign and tooling improvements. * Experience with payments risk (CNP/card testing, ATO, merchant fraud, transaction fraud) and familiarity with how upstream detection and downstream enforcement interact. * Strong analytics proficiency (comfort with data to track team performance) and comfort partnering with data science/engineering.

Stripe

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 At Stripe, our Mexico City office is a vibrant hub at the forefront of our mission to reshape the financial landscape for businesses worldwide. Our team prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and excellence. As a member of the Mexico City team, you'll be part of a mission-driven community dedicated to enhancing the global economy and increasing the GDP of the internet. We strive for excellence by creating with craft and beauty, while having fun and celebrating our successes together. We cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and support where every team member's voice matters. Our commitment shines through as we handle over a million support cases each year, empowering our users not just to solve problems but to achieve their goals. WHAT YOU'LL DO RESPONSIBILITIES • Investigate accounts to identify fraudulent merchants, card testing, account takeover, and other fraud vectors • Conduct investigations on merchant accounts to support financial partner requirements • Assess risk factors and trends of potentially fraudulent activity • Help maintain fraud detection strategies and business rules that balance fraud loss and customer experience • Contribute to root cause analysis to identify opportunities to predict, prevent, and mitigate risk within process and performance • Participate in monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews for the Fraud Operations team 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 • Some experience in fraud analysis, fraud investigations, or fraud operations • Experience using data to make assessments and judgments • A team-focused mentality and effective problem-solving skills • The ability to approach challenges from a user perspective while being pragmatic and solutions-oriented • You have availability to work 100% in-office • You're willing to periodically work a weekend (remotely) for which you will be compensated with weekdays off PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Fraud experience in payments, e-commerce, or fintech mitigating digital and card-not-present fraud • Knowledge of fraud schemes, fraud prevention methods, and fraud detection tools • Prior fraud experience across multiple industries and verticals • Experience in a high-growth technology company • Experience working from a queue

Stripe

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 As a leading player in the internet economy, Stripe has a responsibility to protect itself, our users, end customers, and the broader financial ecosystem from harm. Fraud Operations proactively reduces fraud, making it difficult and unprofitable for fraudsters to carry out attacks through Stripe. We build scalable, high-judgement investigation and review operations while minimizing user friction. We work across products, customer segments, and markets and serve as a core pillar of the Stripe risk strategy. WHAT YOU'LL DO Stripe is hiring a people leader to run our Fraud Operations Center in Bangalore. You'll lead leaders and senior operators responsible for core fraud investigations and complex, high-impact investigations. You'll be accountable for operational excellence across fraud review workflows—setting the operating cadence, defining and evolving team metrics, strengthening quality and consistency of decision-making, and scaling processes through tooling and vendor partnerships. This role is both strategic and hands-on: you'll stay close to day-to-day fraud workflows, regularly reviewing cases and serving as an escalation point and decision-making resource for the team. RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead the Bangalore Fraud Operations Center by managing team leads and senior associates, setting clear expectations, coaching performance, and building a high-judgement culture rooted in strong decisioning and customer empathy * Own core fraud investigations and complex investigations, including escalations and time-sensitive incident response in partnership with global Fraud and Risk stakeholders * Establish and run the operating system for the org, including goal setting, team cadences, SOPs, change management, queue health, SLAs, QA programs, calibration, and readiness for new products and markets * Define, develop, and represent key operational and risk metrics for the Bangalore center (through dashboards and recurring readouts), translating data into actions and priorities * Drive process development and continuous improvement through root cause analysis, defect reduction, policy adherence, and consistency across reviewers and teams * Partner with other Risk teams to evolve fraud tooling and workflows (manual and automated actioning), including safe rollout and measurement of changes * Support outsourcing relevant workflows by identifying transition candidates, designing and standardizing processes for handoff, and supporting training as needed * Own staffing models, capacity planning, scheduling, hiring plans, onboarding, and training strategy to meet business needs while maintaining a high bar for quality and user experience * Maintain close 'floor' engagement by regularly diving into cases, reviewing decisions, supporting frontline judgment, and ensuring feedback loops translate into measurable improvements * Partner with recruiting to define role profiles and interview loops, drive bar-raising hiring decisions, and build a diverse team * Own career development and succession planning, team health and engagement * Build a great culture, a destination workplace, fostering our values, serving as a beacon of the Stripe user-centric philosophy and culture of transparency, empathy, inclusion, and empowerment 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 * Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving change through ambiguity, including new workflows for new products, markets, or emerging fraud patterns * Experience leading fraud, risk, trust and safety, or investigations operations in a high-scale environment, including managing managers and team leads * An ability to partner effectively with internal globally distributed stakeholders and lead internal teams and vendors * Proven ability to define and operationalize metrics (e.g., accuracy and quality, SLAs, throughput, loss outcomes, appeals and rework, user friction) and use data to drive priorities * Comfort working across detection systems and manual and automated actioning systems, with the ability to translate operational needs into product and engineering requirements * Strong operational background, including new process launches, service delivery, and building operating models * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting in operational reviews and representing the team in high-pressure escalations in English * Skill and credibility doing the core work of a user-facing team with a high bar for quality, and a willingness to lead by example * 7+ years of direct people management experience, including performance management, coaching, and mentoring * Experience with payments, risk, compliance, or financial industry operations PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Demonstrated ability to run an operations center, including capacity planning, scheduling, queue management, performance management, and quality programs * Strong fraud domain depth across investigation workflows, risk vectors, and decision frameworks, with the ability to independently review cases and guide frontline judgment * Experience scaling or transforming fraud review operations through process redesign, tooling improvements, and vendor partnerships * Experience with payments risk (CNP and card testing, ATO, merchant fraud, transaction fraud) and familiarity with how upstream detection and downstream enforcement interact * Strong analytics proficiency (building and owning dashboards, querying data directly) and comfort partnering deeply with data science and engineering * Experience operating in a global, follow-the-sun model and partnering across time zones

Stripe

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. Stripe was built with simplicity in mind. We strive to deliver frictionless experiences for all of our users, whether they are an Independent Business, Startup, SMB, or Enterprise, and our mission is to provide all Stripe Users with the best support experience possible. Today, Stripe handles over a million support cases per year and processes millions of internal transactions. We're going to achieve excellence by thinking of support in a novel, solution-oriented way, and viewing operations as an integral enabler of all of Stripe's growth. ABOUT THE TEAM At Stripe, our Mexico City office is a vibrant hub at the forefront of our mission to reshape the financial landscape for businesses worldwide. Our team prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and excellence. As a member of the Mexico City team, you'll be part of a mission-driven community dedicated to enhancing the global economy and increasing the GDP of the internet. We strive for excellence by creating with craft and beauty, while having fun and celebrating our successes together. We cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and support where every team member's voice matters. Our commitment shines through as we handle over a million support cases each year, empowering our users not just to solve problems but to achieve their goals. WHAT YOU'LL DO RESPONSIBILITIES * Have the opportunity to join an operations team across Risk, Product Support, and Financial Crimes * Troubleshoot and solve complex problems * Analyze our processes and instigate changes to help scale our operations and improve user experience * Work closely with other Stripe teams across the globe * Gain unique insights into how thousands of businesses on Stripe scale and operate * Have an opportunity to learn how Stripe operates from the ground up and make a real impact on the future of the organization * Be a part of building a brand-new team and operational culture for Stripe 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 * You are a recent graduate with less than 12 months of full-time working experience or a 2025 or 2026 graduate with full-time availability. * You have excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal. * You have a user-first mindset and are energized by the challenge of solving difficult problems. * You excel in analytical thinking and problem solving. * You enjoy learning about technical products and processes. You are an organized self-starter with a passion for finding solutions to our users' challenges. * You have a process-oriented mindset and ability to get things done. * You enjoy working in an in-office environment with strong cross-team collaboration and support. * You are able to prioritize and enjoy working in a quick-moving environment. * You are humble and have a proven track record for working well across teams and with external partners.