Product Manager, Payments

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 8554 Payments Experiences - PM

Stripe is seeking a Product Manager for its Payments organization. This role involves developing product strategy and roadmaps for payment processing, regional payment options, and in-person payment acceptance. The Product Manager will collaborate with engineering, design, and other teams to build reliable and performant payment products, focusing on user empathy, market trends, and data-driven decision-making to impact revenue and business success.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop the long-term vision and strategy for your pillar and create and execute on a compelling roadmap
  2. 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
  3. Collaborate with engineering, design, legal, and other teams to jointly shape product experiences that delight Stripe’s users
  4. Ensure we are building a reliable, performant platform, including system reliability, API extensibility, and latency
  5. Use metrics to inform your point of view and leverage analytics to measure success

Skills

Required

  • 7-12+ years of industry product management experience
  • Experience in payments, fintech, financial infrastructure, or a closely adjacent domain
  • Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers, designers, and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical capabilities with experience defining and tracking success metrics, running experiments, and using data to measure product impact
  • Experience working on products that require aligning multiple stakeholders, developing joint roadmaps, and navigating competing priorities
  • 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
  • Strong business acumen and comfort with complex ecosystem and platform-level problems

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • payments, fintech, financial infrastructure, or a closely adjacent domain
  • building highly impactful products
  • building products and complex systems at scale
  • building payment products
  • high transaction volumes where availability, latency, and marginal basis points matter