Staff Product Manager, Payments

About the role

The Payments organization at Stripe 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 Stripe's 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.

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 Stripe's merchants and financial partners, understanding global payment industry trends and competitors' offerings to influence Stripe's roadmap effectively
• Collaborate with engineering, design, legal, and other teams to jointly shape product experiences that delight Stripe’s 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

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
• Able 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or relevant degree equivalent): Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences
• Experience working at scale — you've managed products handling high transaction volumes where availability, latency, and marginal basis points matter

Skills

• Deep understanding of the global payment industry and its trends
• Ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships with financial institutions and other key stakeholders
• Experience in managing and optimizing complex systems and processes
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

Pay

• Annual US base salary range: $194,800 - $292,200

Schedule

• Full-time position

Team

Payments

Job type

Full time