About the Role
Stripe is seeking a Product Manager to manage relationships with major payment providers and drive significant payment volume growth. This role involves translating ambiguous challenges into clear deliverables and aligning stakeholders on a strategic vision. You will work with users to enhance payment performance and collaborate with partners, product, and engineering teams to prioritize investments based on distribution, performance, risk, and cost.
Responsibilities
- Develop the long-term vision and strategy for your pillar within the Local Payment Methods team, and create and execute on a compelling roadmap.
- Deeply understand Stripe users' (merchants and partners) needs by spending time with partnership managers, risk, legal, compliance, data science, engineering, products, and go-to-market teams, and by observing patterns and trends across their feedback and the industry.
- Drive adoption of strategic payment methods across Stripe's merchant base, working with go-to-market teams to identify and unlock new distribution opportunities (e.g., enabling payment methods acceptance cross-border, or for new use cases like recurring or agentic payments).
- Partner closely with Risk teams to ensure sustainable growth, implementing controls and enforcement strategies that protect both Stripe and our financial partners while maximizing approval rates and minimizing losses.
- Collaborate with product marketing and go-to-market teams to turn your multi-quarter roadmap into compelling and actionable narratives.
- 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.
- Work closely with Stripe and our financial partners' product and engineering organizations to define the most valuable investments, factoring in aspects such as distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks.
- Collaborate with partnership managers to develop joint product roadmaps with payment partners, securing shared alignment and navigating competing priorities between internal goals and partner objectives.
- Become a subject-matter expert for a subset of Stripe's most strategic payment partners, ensuring they receive the support and insights needed to succeed.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a product management or product-adjacent role, with a proven track record building highly impactful products.
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers, designers, and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale.
- Ability to effectively communicate with and influence both user-facing and partner-facing stakeholders.
- 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 diverse stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
- Strong business acumen and comfort with complex ecosystem and platform-level problems.
- Experience with online payments, deep understanding of the conversion, costs, and risk trade-offs.
- Experience optimizing revenue outcomes for an online payments business.
- Experience working with financial partners and users from various geographies and cultures.
- Experience building platform or marketplace products where success requires balancing multiple stakeholder interests and creating value for all participants in the ecosystem.
Skills
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap Development
- User Research
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Data Analysis
- Experimentation
- Business Acumen
- Online Payments
- Financial Partnerships
- Platform Products
- Marketplace Products
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- 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.
- Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
- The Local Payment Methods team is responsible for Stripe's fastest growing payments business.
- These payment methods are often the single largest conversion improvement merchants can make to their checkout, driving double-digit increases in checkout conversion.
- They represent billions of dollars in payments volume each month and are core to Stripe's growth strategy.
- We build payment methods that help businesses drastically increase their revenues and grow their business.
- Additionally, we also build the platform that allows us to build and distribute payment methods at scale.
