Staff Product Manager, Sail Core

at Stripe

📍 United States
📍 Toronto, Canada
📍 New York City, United States

USD 178,600-268,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote ✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

Sail Core builds Stripe's frontend platform, including the data layer, navigation, observability, and developer tooling used by more than 50 product teams to ship web applications. The team is responsible for enabling a strong developer experience for frontend engineers at Stripe.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Stripe's frontend platform.
Drive Stripe's largest frontend modernization initiative while maintaining architectural quality.
Redefine frontend development with agentic tooling.
Define and track metrics such as latency, build times, and reliability SLOs to support platform investment and trade-off decisions.
Represent product perspectives in deeply technical decisions, including API surface design, framework deprecation sequencing, extraction boundaries, and migration tooling.
Drive large-scale migrations and platform transitions across multiple teams through sequencing, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment.
Partner with engineering on architectural trade-offs grounded in user impact.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience, including at least 2 years on platform, infrastructure, or developer tools teams.
Strong technical fluency in frontend web development, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React component models, build systems, and performance optimization.
Experience driving large-scale migrations or platform transitions across multiple teams.
Demonstrated use of quantitative metrics to drive platform investment decisions.
Experience partnering with engineering on architecture and user-impact trade-offs.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional frontend engineering experience.
Experience leading or significantly contributing to legacy extraction or monolith decomposition efforts.
Understanding of frontend performance concepts such as cascading re-renders.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, designers, and executives.
A preference for platform solutions over one-off fixes while recognizing when speed requires an alternative.