Strategy & Business Operations, Stripe
$188.3-282.4k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188.3-282.4k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in strategy & operations, product strategy, product management, or similar roles at technology companies
- Experience working in highly cross-functional settings, and in a role that spans strategy, analysis, and operations in a fast-paced environment
- Critical thinking and first-principles thinking (e.g., ability to question how we are working rather than simply executing), and the ability to zoom out to the most important questions
- Passion for digging deep into data and problem-solving
- Interest in data analytics with some experience navigating large data sets and/or SQL
- Strong program management skills with experience managing end-to-end execution of projects/programs that have transformed their company’s operations and delivered quantifiable business impact
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the the ability to speak to leaders across different teams, such as partnerships, product, engineering, and sales
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in influence without authority environments
- Good balance of business and technical acumen
- An ability to execute with minimal guidance, and in contexts with a high degree of ambiguity
Desirable
- Payments ecosystem, or experience in finance or fintech is a plus
- Experience facilitating large meetings with a strong focus on goals and outcomes
- Ability to build trust and partner with senior leaders and CXOs
- Experience driving creative solutions with and effectively informing the roadmap of cross-functional teams
- Ability to understand the implications of Stripe ships such as product features, policy changes, and marketing outreach on the user experience and resulting support experience
What the job involves
- The Strategic Operations team serves as the central nervous system of Stripe, responsible for laying the foundation for Stripe's next decade of growth
- This team focuses on our most critical and strategic cross-company projects, ranging from Stripe’s overall Company Strategy and the design and implementation of Stripe’s company-wide operating system to owning key strategic projects in partnership with our senior-most leaders
- In this role, you will serve as a “GMs” for hire, diving into a wide array of problems that drive impact for the business across operations, products, go-to-market, and analytics
- In this role, you will work cross-functionally within our group and across Stripe’s technical and user-facing teams to solve problems and design workflows that benefit our users
- Work on cross-cutting company strategy projects and collaborate with teams to implement changes
- Partner directly with senior leaders and cross functional teams to accelerate progress, solve hard scaling
- Initiatives, and incubate new programs
- Obsess over our top company metrics, helping to surface and drive initiatives that will most move the
- Needle for Stripe
- Design and implement complex business and operational systems and processes
- Drive analysis and research to help inform our overall strategy and make the right growth decisions for Stripe
- Be an integral part of yearly strategy and company goal planning
- Track projects, timelines and commitments on internal projects and customer deliverables
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
Some 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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