Head of Connect & Crypto, Finance & Strategy

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 6453 MaaS F&S

Stripe is seeking a seasoned finance leader to head their Connect and Crypto Finance & Strategy team. This role involves partnering with product leaders to provide financial rigor, strategic clarity, and analytical depth, focusing on revenue forecasting, pricing, unit economics, investment frameworks, and strategic insights for high-growth product areas. The leader will also build analytical infrastructure, potentially leveraging AI and automation, and lead a team of finance and strategy partners. The role requires extensive experience in financial modeling, partnering with senior leaders, team leadership, and comfort with ambiguity and complex datasets, with a preference for experience in crypto and marketplace models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own revenue forecasting and performance management across Connect and Crypto, including volume trends and unit economics. Develop and maintain integrated financial models that reflect underlying product drivers.
  2. Establish and maintain key business metrics and KPIs to measure performance of new and existing products. Present performance in business forums, highlighting drivers, risks and actionable insights.
  3. Drive strategy and decision-making by bringing rigorous financial analysis and product and industry expertise to help product leaders evaluate tradeoffs and shape strategic roadmaps.
  4. Lead the quarterly forecast and annual strategic financial planning process. Develop long range financial models with scenario analysis and actionable recommendations on growth, monetization and where to prioritize investments.
  5. Serve as a key contributor to key business reviews and leadership forums, translating complex product economics into clear insights for executive audiences.

Skills

Required

  • Product finance
  • Strategic finance
  • FP&A
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Pricing analysis
  • Unit economics
  • Volume/take-rate forecasting
  • Deal economics
  • Financial modeling
  • Partnering with senior product or business leaders
  • Translating complex financial data into clear and compelling narratives
  • Influencing strategic decisions
  • Building and leading high-performing finance teams
  • Hiring
  • Developing talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Creating structure and clarity
  • SQL
  • Working with large, complex datasets
  • Written communication
  • Verbal communication
  • Presenting to senior leaders

Nice to have

  • Crypto
  • Stablecoins
  • Digital assets
  • Blockchain-based financial products
  • Marketplace or platform business models
  • Multi-sided network economics
  • Accounting
  • Tax
  • Treasury
  • IR
  • Leveraging AI/ML tools to enhance and automate financial analysis
  • Python
  • Anaplan
  • Tableau
  • High-growth, rapidly scaling environment

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of relevant experience
  • Deep experience in revenue-oriented financial modeling
  • A proven track record of partnering with senior product or business leaders
  • Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing finance teams
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Working knowledge of SQL and comfort working with large, complex datasets