Engineering Program Manager, Internal Systems

at Stripe

📍 United States
📍 Atlanta, United States
📍 Chicago, United States
📍 New York City, United States
📍 South San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 131,200-196,800 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote ✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

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. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

The Internal Systems team owns an expansive mix of platform and product solutions centered on internal users. The team focuses on building frictionless experiences for Sellers and Finance Engineering so users can work efficiently and accurately. The team works across go-to-market and Finance domains to build successful platforms and systems.

Responsibilities

Partner with Engineering, Product, and business teams to understand user needs and define program scope, milestones, owners, and success criteria.
Own the delivery of defined cross-functional programs from planning through launch, tracking dependencies, decisions, risks, and progress.
Work with engineering partners to understand technical dependencies and tradeoffs, identify delivery risks, and agree on mitigation plans.
Write clear program plans, proposals, decision records, and updates tailored to the audience.
Build alignment across teams, resolve delivery issues with partners, and escalate blockers when needed.
Use data and stakeholder feedback to measure outcomes and recommend improvements.
Improve planning, tracking, and launch processes based on team needs and lessons learned.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

3+ years of program management experience.
Experience delivering cross-functional software or systems programs from planning through launch.
Ability to turn complex information into clear plans, identify risks and dependencies, and recommend practical next steps.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communicating progress, decisions, and blockers to technical and business audiences.
Ability to work independently within an agreed scope, collaborate across teams and time zones, and seek support when needed.
Experience improving processes across multiple teams or functions.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with go-to-market or finance systems.
Experience partnering with engineering teams on internal software, systems integrations, or platform improvements.
Familiarity with software development processes and managing dependencies between systems.
Experience supporting launches, adoption, or process changes for internal users.