Technical Program Manager, Stripe
Connect
$157.6-236.5k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157.6-236.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering, systems engineering and/or technical program management experience
- Excellent analytical skills; you digest complex information and make recommendations
- You have a track record of providing program management during all phases of software development from kick-off to launch, demonstrating critical thinking, challenging the norms and thought leadership
- You have very strong written and verbal communication skills, building strong relationships with stakeholders, teams and senior leaders around the organization
- You can drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions and bring a wealth of experience, opinions, proposals and best practices
- Experience operating autonomously and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions, with stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones
- Ability to understand how functionality comes together (across products and platforms) to deliver value for users, and identify/mitigate delivery risks proactively; can propose and drive a technical solution
- Users-first and customer-focused mindset
Desirable
- Experience in a global FinTech or banking organization
What the job involves
- As a TPM, you will play a key role leading complex programs across multiple engineering, product and cross-functional (finance, legal, compliance, risk, and other) teams spanning Stripe
- You will be responsible for the successful definition, cross-functional strategy, planning and execution of large-scale technical programs that help to solve complex problems and empower Stripe and our users
- Drive functional and technical delivery of key team and org-wide programs/initiatives
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other cross functional partners to define, scope, and drive large programs to conclusion
- Develop, implement, and iterate on program management techniques, frameworks, and KPIs to achieve goals with well defined success criteria
- Make substantial improvements to how the teams you work with communicate and operate to significantly increase the productivity and efficiency of the teams
- Define and produce high quality written proposals, communications and documentation
- Leverage data and acquired knowledge to drive strategic decisions at an engineering leadership level
- Create widely circulated plans, driving consistency, clarity and building alignment across teams
- Help influence peers / leaders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity
- The Connect team at Stripe focuses on building and maintaining the infrastructure and tools that enable businesses to integrate and manage payments on their platforms
- This includes providing solutions for marketplaces, platforms, and service providers to handle complex payment flows, such as payouts to third-party sellers or service providers
- The team is responsible for designing systems that support a wide range of business models and compliance requirements across various countries
- They work on ensuring a seamless and secure experience for users, managing APIs that facilitate the movement of funds, and offering features like onboarding, verification, and reporting for platforms using Stripe Connect
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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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