Product Finance & Strategy Lead, Stripe
Payments
$183.2-274.8k
OTE
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$183.2-274.8k
OTE
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Your work will be highly visible to Stripe leadership, and will drive key insights and decisions for product teams and executive discussions
- 10+ years of relevant experience within FP&A or strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth technology company. Investment banking, management consulting and/or private equity experience will also be considered
- Headcount and opex management experience (including tracking non-headcount expenditures such as vendor or partnership spend)
- Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor
- An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality to go deep into business analysis and understand details while managing Exec-level communication
- Adept at navigating ambiguity and thriving in unstructured, fast-paced environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn is a must
What the job involves
- This is an opportunity to contribute to the long-term growth potential of Stripe’s current Payment business and to help develop business and investment cases for emerging payment products
- Your work will be highly visible to Stripe leadership, and will drive key insights and decisions for product teams and executive discussions
- Lead strategic operating expense (opex) planning for the Payments & Risk organization including headcount planning, opex management, budgeting, forecasting, and facilitating business reviews
- You will help drive alignment with business leadership and improve processes to enable growth and scale
- Partner with senior product leaders across the organisation to understand their top priorities and help develop resource allocation strategies to hit budget targets
- Define & help deliver headcount and opex strategies with rigorous thinking and frameworks and answer key questions business leaders are wrestling with, including product/investment prioritization, opex efficiencies, and partnerships where needed
- Develop and monitor critical success and business performance metrics, and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders (e.g. , hiring progress vs
- Recruiting capacity, cost per headcount trends, rate and volume variance analysis)
- Provide analytical rigor and bring strategic leadership to operational initiatives (e.g. , you quantify the size of an investment opportunity that would require cross-functional partnership to address, and effectively collaborate with key stakeholders)
- Improve, streamline, and optimize opex reporting and processes to ensure we’re proactively tracking the most insightful metrics
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
Articles
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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