Staff Product Manager, Payments

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the Organization

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments enabling regional non-card payment options and extending Stripes capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates.

Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience location etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.

Regardless of team you will own a critical piece of Stripes payments stack define product strategy that balances user needs with infrastructure complexity and ship products that directly impact Stripes revenue and the success of millions of businesses.

What youll do

Were looking for Staff Product Managers who deeply understand their customers and want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop the long-term vision and strategy for your pillar and create and execute on a compelling roadmap
• Build deep user empathy with both Stripes merchants and financial partners understanding global payment industry trends and competitors offerings to influence Stripes roadmap effectively
• Collaborate with engineering design legal and other teams to jointly shape product experiences that delight Stripes users
• Ensure we are building a reliable performant platform including system reliability API extensibility and latency
• Use metrics to inform your point of view and leverage analytics to measure success

Who you are

Were 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

• 10 years of industry product management experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
• Experience in payments fintech financial infrastructure or a closely adjacent domain (e.g. commerce platforms banking payment networks) and a track record of building highly impactful products
• Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers designers and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a knack for precise and concise articulation of user problems
• Strong analytical capabilities with experience defining and tracking success metrics running experiments (e.g. holdback tests) and using data to measure product impact on revenue conversion and margins
• Experience working on products that require aligning multiple stakeholders developing joint roadmaps and navigating competing priorities between internal goals and external partner objectives
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with significant autonomy and responsibility
• Background delivering successfully on multi-quarter roadmaps and aligning and influencing diverse stakeholders to achieve shared goals
• Strong business acumen and comfort with complex ecosystem and platform-level problems

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelors degree (or relevant degree equivalent): Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Analytics Mathematics Physics Applied Sciences
• Demonstrated success and strong execution track record in building payment products
• Experience working at scale youve managed products handling high transaction volumes where availability latency and marginal basis points matter