Product Manager, Payments

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses that enables them to accept payments and grow their revenue. The Product Manager for Payments will define product strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure the development of reliable and performant payment solutions that meet user needs.

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:

• 7-12+ 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
• Ability 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
• Bachelor's degree (or relevant degree equivalent): Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences
• Demonstrated success and strong execution track record in building payment products
• Experience working at scale — you've managed products handling high transaction volumes where availability, latency, and marginal basis points matter