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Crypto Controls and Compliance Lead

Stripe · Remote · 3311 FinCRO

Posted Sep 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you took a regulatory requirement and turned it into a control that frontline teams could actually follow.

What they are checking: Whether they can translate legal language into practical steps that people execute consistently.

Describe a time Internal Audit or a regulator found an issue in a program you supported. How did you manage it to closure?

What they are checking: Whether they own findings openly and drive remediation instead of getting defensive.

Tell me about a time you had to coordinate Legal, Product, Engineering and Operations on one compliance deliverable.

What they are checking: Whether they can run a program across teams with different priorities and still hit a firm deadline.

What would you do

You review Privy's controls and find several have no evidence trail. What do you do first?

What they are checking: Whether they can triage control gaps by risk and get evidence standards in place without stopping the business.

Product wants to launch a new crypto feature next month, and the policy change it needs hasn't been approved. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can hold the line on governance while helping the business find a workable path forward.

How would you decide whether a control gap needs formal issue tracking or is something to fix quietly this week?

What they are checking: Whether they know issue management thresholds and avoid both hiding problems and flooding the log.

About the work

How would you explain what the Travel Rule requires for a stablecoin business like Bridge, and where the hard parts are in practice?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the real operational gaps in sharing originator and beneficiary data across crypto counterparties.

Walk me through how you'd test whether a financial crimes control is designed well versus just operating as written.

What they are checking: Whether they can separate design effectiveness from operating effectiveness, which auditors and regulators check separately.

How would you plan a Financial Crimes Risk Assessment that has to cover several Stripe entities with different products and licenses?

What they are checking: Whether they can scope a multi-entity risk assessment with sound methodology, clear owners and a defensible timeline.

The posting mentions using AI responsibly in compliance work. Where would you use it, and where would you refuse to?

What they are checking: Whether they see real efficiency gains while knowing which judgments must stay with a person and be documented.

How do you run policy change management so that every entity is on the current version and people know what changed?

What they are checking: Whether they can keep policy governance clean across entities, which is often where exam findings start.

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The full job description

As published by Stripe.

Who we are Financial Crimes Compliance Risk Oversight (FinCRO) is hiring an Enterprise Compliance and Risk Controls Lead for financial crimes controls and governance at Stripe. This role will support Bridge and Privy controls plus provide critical inputs for policy governance and Financial Crimes Risk Assessment (FCRA) across Stripe entities. You will combine financial crimes controls expertise with strong program management, using AI responsibly to improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of our work. The role will support key financial crimes priorities, including evolving requirements related to the Travel Rule. What you’ll do • Ensure Bridge and Privy controls are appropriately designed, evidenced, governed, and implemented. • Drive relevant financial crimes policy governance across Stripe entities, including policy development, approvals, and change management. • Provide critical inputs for the Financial Crimes Risk Assessment across Stripe entities, including planning, stakeholder coordination, documentation, governance, and reporting. • Translate financial crimes regulatory and risk requirements into clear, practical controls, policies, risk assessments, and operating processes. • Partner with Financial Crimes, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Internal Audit to identify gaps, manage issues, and improve the control environment. • Identify responsible AI and automation opportunities across controls, policy, and risk-assessment work including document review, obligation mapping, evidence triage, change analysis, and trend reporting. • Ensure AI-enabled workflows retain appropriate human oversight, data protection, accountability, and auditability. What we’re looking for • 7+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, risk, internal controls, audit, or a related field in regulated financial services. • Experience with financial crimes risk assessments, control design or testing, policy governance, issue management, or audit readiness. • Familiarity with financial crimes requirements, ideally including AML, sanctions, KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, and/or the Travel Rule. • Strong interest in or experience using AI and automation to improve compliance, controls, risk, or operational workflows responsibly.

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