Product Manager, Payments
Leads product vision, strategy, and roadmap for payments platform, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. Requires 7-12+ years PM experience in payments/fintech with strong analytics and stakeholder alignment skills.
About the job
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
Minimum Requirements
- 7-12+ years of industry product management experience (does not include internships nor 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Skills
Payments, Fintech, Product Roadmap, Analytics, A/B Testing, APIs, Stakeholder Management, Metrics, Experiments, Financial Infrastructure
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