Product Manager, Stripe
OCS API Platform
$162.3-243.6k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$162.3-243.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in a product role, ideally working on API-focused products
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- An obsession over product quality, specifically an intuition for high-performing, ergonomic and long-lasting API design
- Strong API “taste” – you should know what makes a great developer experience and be a driver of good API design decisions, down to individual parameter naming
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of user problems
- Can dig deep into the data, think from first principles, and deliver the right results
Desirable
- Experience working on financial products
- Experience in working in a highly cross-functional role that requires advanced stakeholder management
What the job involves
- As the Product Manager for the Optimized Checkout API Platform you'll be responsible for designing and scaling the APIs used by hundreds of thousands of businesses and get to design the future abstractions through which thousands more will build their integrations on Stripe in the future
- You’ll get to work with companies ranging from innovative startups to Fortune 500s and work with teams across Stripe in designing the right API foundations
- Own and operate the Checkout API platform—including defining a multi-year strategy for evolving and extending our on-session payment APIs, making prioritization decisions, and developing roadmaps and OKRs
- Be a champion for the businesses building on Stripe, by developing deep empathy for the problems that they’re encountering
- Build a deep understanding of the competitive landscape, commerce ecosystem, and wider Stripe offering to design differentiated and extensible product experiences
- Collaborate with engineering, design, legal, and other teams to jointly shape product experiences that delight Stripe’s users
- Ensure we are building a reliable, performant platform, including system reliability, API extensibility, and latency
- Partner with teams across Stripe that aim to build on top of the Checkout API platform
- Use metrics to inform your point of view and leverage analytics to measure success
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
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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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