Staff Product Manager, Payments

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that provides businesses with payment acceptance, revenue growth, and other financial services. The Payments organization develops products and platforms for payment processing, regional and non-card payment methods, in-person payments, checkout experiences, and payment infrastructure.

The Staff Product Manager will own a critical part of Stripe's payments stack, define product strategy balancing user needs with infrastructure complexity, and deliver products that impact Stripe's revenue and millions of businesses.

Responsibilities

• Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the assigned product pillar and create and execute a compelling roadmap.
• Build deep user empathy with Stripe's merchants and financial partners.
• Understand global payment industry trends and competitor offerings to influence Stripe's roadmap.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, legal, and other teams to shape product experiences.
• Ensure the platform is reliable and performant, including system reliability, API extensibility, and latency.
• Use metrics and analytics to form product perspectives and measure success.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry product management experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
• Experience in payments, fintech, financial infrastructure, commerce platforms, banking, payment networks, or a closely adjacent domain.
• Track record of building highly impactful products.
• Experience partnering with engineers, designers, and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate user problems precisely and concisely.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including defining and tracking success metrics, running experiments such as holdback tests, and using data to measure impact on revenue, conversion, and margins.
• Experience aligning multiple stakeholders, developing joint roadmaps, and navigating competing internal and external priorities.
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with significant autonomy and responsibility.
• Experience delivering multi-quarter roadmaps and influencing diverse stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
• Strong business acumen and comfort with complex ecosystem and platform-level problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, or Applied Sciences.
• Demonstrated success and strong execution in building payment products.
• Experience managing products at scale with high transaction volumes, where availability, latency, and marginal basis points matter.