Technical Program Manager, Stripe
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$173.4-260.2k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of product management or technical program management experience with extensive experience partnering closely with software engineering teams
- Experience providing program management during all phases of software development
- Proven track record of defining and executing complex programs across multiple functions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to establish strong relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders
- Thrive in solving ambiguous problems and see opportunities where others see chaos
- Experience influencing technical decisions particularly as they impact reliability, security, latency and scalability
- Relentless focus on users and solving for their needs and wants
- Have strong prioritization frameworks to drive development for the product team and customers. You will have a strong understanding of our product roadmaps and help leaders navigate how to balance meeting the roadmap and balancing priority customer needs
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or a related field
Desirable
- Experience with consumer or payments-related products
What the job involves
- As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a key role leading complex programs across multiple engineering, product and cross-functional (legal, risk, go-to-market and other) teams spanning Stripe
- You will be an active contributor to the overall strategy of the program, drive technical decision making, and drive the execution of the program through all phases from planning to delivery
- You will have the opportunity to implement mechanisms that make your programs effective and scale them to edit org-level processes
- Effective TPMs at Stripe always bias towards driving the right solutions for our users and internal stakeholders
- You’ll do this even when it’s not the easiest path for us or our teams, and requires trade-off decisions
- You will look ahead and around corners to enable our teams to operate at their best, and for opportunities to eliminate the unnecessary in delivering results
- Link is still in early days and you will have a significant influence on the product roadmap and technical direction for the team
- Drive functional and technical delivery of key team-, org-, and company-wide initiatives
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design, scope, and shepherd features
- Create functional specs, project plans, and roadmaps
- Own and execute multiple software engineering programs simultaneously
- Help drive product decisions to align with higher company initiatives
- Help influence peers / managers and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity
- Drive clarity across all stakeholders on the goal, problem and outcomes the team is working towards
- Understand the technical problems that need to be solved, and work closely with necessary stakeholders of the engineering teams, technical systems/processes involved to define and manage the most effective way to enable teams to deliver solutions
- Bring rapid clarity to ambiguous situations, resolve them effectively, communicate decisions efficiently, and enable teams to move towards implementing solutions. You will bring your experience and contextual knowledge to bear on the problems that teams need to solve
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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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
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Founders
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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