Data Science Manager, Stripe

$207.8-311.6k

Expert level
Remote in US
Chicago
New York

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Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

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Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Be an early applicant

$207.8-311.6k

Expert level
Remote in US
Chicago
New York

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • You have at least 3 years of direct management experience leading data science and ML teams, and 10 years of overall data science experience
  • You have demonstrated expertise in designing metrics and guiding business decisions with data
  • You have technical expertise to drive clarity with staff and senior scientists about architecture and strategic modeling decisions
  • You’ve managed teams that have built and shipped machine learning systems and data products at scale, and have hands-on experience with challenging problems
  • You work very well cross-functionally, and are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs
  • You have clear and persuasive communication skills in writing and verbally
  • You thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • You foster a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment

Desirable

  • A PhD or MS in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering)
  • You are comfortable working with geographically distributed teams
  • Expertise in time series forecasting, predictive modeling, or optimization
  • Expertise in data design and building scalable data architectures

What the job involves

  • The Growth Data Science team helps businesses accelerate their journey to accept payments on Stripe, and find the financial products they need to grow their business
  • We achieve our goals through experimentation, forecasting, attribution modeling, personalization and algorithmic recommendations
  • We partner with Marketing, Sales and Self-Serve Product teams to develop intelligent data products and insights, and create go-to-market strategies to drive product discovery, adoption and retention
  • DEeP is a central infrastructure team that builds platforms that enable teams across Stripe to offer a better user experience
  • The DEeP Data Science team provides data, metrics and insights to improve key features of the Stripe user experience including the Stripe Dashboard, developer tools, API policies, Stripe Apps, and more
  • DEeP DS works closely with other functions to build scalable data solutions, inform strategy, provide observability, and run experiments
  • Data Science Managers at Stripe are responsible for the success of their team
  • You’ll be deeply involved in the modeling and design processes as well as coaching, mentoring, and leading the team
  • You’ll have a deep understanding of how to drive efficient data science teams and you’ll have a strong user-focus
  • You’ll be working with data scientists, analysts and engineers on creating technical solutions and communicating effectively across teams and senior leadership
  • Drive the roadmap and priorities for your team, and work with many Stripe leaders across the company to enhance our ability to be data driven
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as engineering, analytics, operations, finance, and marketing
  • Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
  • Manage a high-performing team of data scientists, supporting them to achieve a high level of technical excellence and advance in their careers
  • Recruit and onboard great data scientists, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
  • Contribute to broad data science initiatives as a member of Stripe’s data science management team

Our take

Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.

More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.

To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."

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-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)

Mar 2023

$6.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$600m

SERIES H

Total funding: $8.7bn

Company benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
  • Fertility benefits and parental leave

Company values

  • Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
  • An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
  • Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
  • Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Patrick Collison

(Content Strategist)

Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.

John Collison

(President)

Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.

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