Americas Communications, Stripe
$136.8-205.2k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$136.8-205.2k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role
- If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply
- The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement
- Stellar written and verbal communication skills; in particular, an ability to understand, synthesize, and articulate complex and technically sophisticated topics
- 8+ years of relevant working experience in communications and/or within the startup community
- A strong track record building creative startup storytelling communications campaigns from scratch
- Experience collaborating effectively with policy teams, sales leads, and other senior executives
Desirable
- Experience developing relationships with key business and technology reporters
- Working in a technology and/or B2B environment
What the job involves
- The Communications team builds and protects Stripe’s brand and influence across the world. We’re looking for an experienced communications professional to deepen the understanding around the positive economic impact Stripe is having in the Americas
- The Americas Communications role will focus on elevating stories of our startup and SMB users to demonstrate how Stripe enables economic growth
- Stripe holds a unique view of the world, with real-time insight into changing trends, industries, and cross-border commerce
- This role will help tease out novel economic and industry insights from Stripe users to tell stories about how pockets of the economy are changing or evolving
- This role will also highlight unique stories about startup/SMBs to demonstrate the impact Stripe is having for entrepreneurs across the Americas
- This role would also lead communications around Stripe Atlas
- This communicator should be passionate about uncovering and empowering upstarts, as they develop stories about how Stripe is advancing economic opportunities for entrepreneurs and increasing the GDP of the internet
- Work collaboratively with counterparts in policy and other areas to advance business objectives by developing unique startup and SMB campaigns within the Americas
- Design and roll out strategic communications narratives that illustrate genuinely fascinating economic insights based on trends uncovered within Stripe data
- Develop and maintain relationships with reporters and influencers within the Americas
- Provide strategic counsel to our executive team, including leaders in our policy team
- Partner with the broader communications team on larger global initiatives to tailor them for the Americas market
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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