Ava Dominick

Hi, I’m Ava. I love talking to people who are building something they believe in, especially when understanding their idea sends me down a rabbit hole of my own. Lately, I’ve been thinking about financial-crime investigations, crypto, and the questions that come with trusting AI agents with our money.

At Stripe, the work I’ve enjoyed most has started with a question I couldn’t leave alone. Why was an account restricted? Why did a payment keep failing? Following those questions has meant digging into business models and working with risk and engineering teams. It has also helped me understand what I want to do next: investigate financial crime, particularly where new technology makes the answers harder to find.

Experience

Stripe

2025–present

Sales Development Representative · Money Management

I help businesses assess and integrate crypto products. My work spans customer qualification, funds-flow review, early-access fit, and account-restriction escalations with risk teams. I use Jira to coordinate cases, troubleshoot APIs and access configuration, and write technical documentation that helps teams navigate integrations.

I traced a recurring payment failure to a missing feature flag in an onboarding workflow. The initial explanation was customer drop-off, but the errors I encountered during test purchases didn’t fit. I worked through API responses, error messages, documentation, and conversations with technical teams to connect two apparently different failures to the same configuration gap.

I exceeded quota in all four quarterly periods and sourced 77 opportunities across enterprise and specialist product teams, including 18 enterprise opportunities and flagship prospects with projected multimillion-dollar deal values. Alongside building that pipeline, I reviewed funds flows, coordinated risk escalations, and investigated integration failures.

University of Michigan

Class of 2025

Ross School of Business · BBA, Finance focus

Studied finance, developed stock pitches with Michigan Ethical Investments, and managed budgeting and fundraising as vice president of Michigan Women’s Club Water Polo. My analytical toolkit includes Excel and financial modeling, and I have working proficiency in French.

What keeps me curious

Financial-crime investigations. At Stripe, I’ve had to look past how a business described itself to understand what it actually did. I’m building on that experience through independent practice. In a simulated CDD intake review, I assessed expected account activity, separated customer statements from supporting evidence, identified information gaps, and prepared follow-up questions and a risk-review handoff.
Crypto and payments. I’ve followed crypto since college, and working with businesses at Stripe has given those interests a much more practical shape. I want to understand what happens between an ambitious idea and someone actually trusting it with their money.
Financial hacks, technology misuse, and writing. I research financial hacks and agent-security incidents, following how safeguards fail and who has the authority to act. The subject I keep returning to is what happens when we trust a system with money or decisions before we understand the limits of its permissions.