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Stripe

Builds payment software for internet businesses

Product Marketing Manager - Payments

Full-Time
$145k - $217.6k/yr
Senior
Remote in USA+2 moreMore locations: Toronto, ON, Canada | Chicago, IL, USA
Remote
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 7 years of product marketing experience at a technology company.
  • Experience developing messaging, positioning, and sales enablement materials.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate technical features into customer-facing benefits.
  • Experience managing cross-functional go-to-market efforts and working closely with product, sales, and marketing teams.
  • Ability to leverage data to proactively identify opportunities and drive impactful results.
Responsibilities
  • Work closely with product, partnerships, and partner marketing (demand generation) teams to build a marketing strategy aimed at driving awareness, demand, and usage of the products.
  • Drive end-to-end product launches, including defining audience segments, gathering user insights, crafting launch narratives, informing pricing and packaging, ensuring cross-functional readiness, and executing launch activities.
  • Develop differentiated messaging and positioning, and equip go-to-market teams with knowledge and content to sell and market effectively.
  • Create high-impact thought leadership content.
  • Shape the product roadmap, own and evolve messaging and positioning, create differentiated content for events, marketing materials, and presentations, support product launches, and enable sales.
  • Partner with product and sales teams to drive awareness and adoption in a rapidly evolving market.

About the company

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Stripe

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Stripe builds payment software that businesses of all sizes plug into their websites and apps to accept money online and in person. After its public launch in 2011, it won over internet startups by letting developers start taking payments with a few lines of code. Businesses use it to take cards and digital wallets, block fraud, bill subscriptions, and pay out sellers on online marketplaces, while Stripe earns a fee on each payment plus charges for add-on tools. Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010, and it is based in South San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland. In 2016, John Collison, then 26, became the world's youngest self-made billionaire.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$8.7B

Headquarters

South San Francisco, California

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

  • February 2026 results: Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in 2025, up 34%, roughly 1.6% of world GDP.
  • Equity keeps gaining value: a February 2026 employee share sale valued Stripe at $159 billion, 74% above a year earlier.
  • AI leaders run on Stripe: it says 88% of the Forbes AI 50 companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, use it.

What critics are saying

  • Cashing out depends on company-run share sales: Stripe's leaders called staying private "a growing advantage" in August 2026.
  • A big AI shopping launch faltered: OpenAI scaled back ChatGPT's Instant Checkout, built with Stripe, in March 2026.
  • Washington is watching who it cuts off: the FTC warned Stripe in March 2026 against dropping customers over their beliefs.

What makes Stripe unique

  • Many founders start on Stripe: it says 25% of new Delaware corporations are created through Atlas, its company-setup service.
  • It owns a crypto payments arm: Stripe paid $1.1 billion in 2025 for Bridge, which moves money in dollar-pegged stablecoins.
  • Software is a second business: February 2026 projections put Stripe's billing and tax tools on a $1 billion annual pace.

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Benefits

  • Inclusive coverage - We provide a thoughtful and balanced set of benefits that allow Stripes to be their best selves and do great work. Whether that means offering comprehensive mental, physical, and medical health plans, supporting Stripes' financial futures, providing fertility benefits and parental leave, or making sure Stripes have access to healthy food at the office, our robust programs put Stripes and their families first.
  • Growth by way of learning - We are voracious learners and teachers. Our Education team delivers an onboarding and product training curriculum for all new Stripes, and hosts expert-led courses on things like project management fundamentals and macroeconomics. Beyond the formal program, Stripes are constantly sharing knowledge with each other through conversation, documentation, reading groups, and informal talks.
  • A principled approach to food - The food program holds a special place in Stripe's history and future. These Stripes come to our kitchen from a breadth of backgrounds and experiences, and focus on one proposition—respect. This is apparent not only in the local ingredients they work with or in the gracious, teamwork-driven buffet lines, but also in their approach to growing a global team through sustainable food practices and minimal waste.

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Crypto Briefing
Oct 29th, 2026
IPX taps Stripe's Bridge to move IP revenue between bank accounts and USDC.

IPX taps Stripe's Bridge to move IP revenue between bank accounts and USDC. The tokenized intellectual property platform will give eligible users Bridge virtual accounts linking traditional bank rails to its smart contracts on Base Sponsored: Vera - AI-powered prediction market intelligence, built for serious analysts Explore Vera Getting paid for intellectual property has always involved a lot of waiting. Licensing checks clear slowly, royalty statements arrive late, and the money rarely goes anywhere interesting once it lands. IPX wants to change that plumbing. The Miami-based platform for tokenized intellectual property has announced an integration with Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure company owned by Stripe. The goal is to let creators and projects pull real-world revenue straight into USDC and onto the blockchain. What the integration actually does. IPX made the announcement on October 28, 2026. The company describes itself as an agentic operating system and tokenized exchange for intellectual property. The Bridge integration is scheduled to launch on November 15, 2026. Once live, eligible users and projects on IPX will get access to a Bridge virtual account. That account acts as a two-way door. Money can move from traditional bank rails into the smart contracts IPX runs on Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network. It can also travel back out to a bank account. Access is not automatic for everyone. The accounts are subject to onboarding and applicable eligibility requirements, so users will need to clear compliance checks before the door opens. The practical use case centers on off-chain income. Revenue such as licensing fees and donations will be automatically converted to USDC on-chain, where it can then feed directly into IPX's smart contracts. Jordan Schlosser, IPX's CTO and co-founder, framed the move as a gain in transparency and efficiency. In his telling, it improves how traditional revenue streams are handled and how they turn into programmable on-chain money. Why Bridge, and why now. Bridge is not a random partner. Stripe acquired the company in February 2025, a deal that signaled one of the biggest names in online payments was taking stablecoins seriously. The news moving money, markets, and the world - before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Bridge's pitch focuses on non-custodial accounts and compliance checks. For a platform like IPX, that combination matters. It lets the company offer banking-style deposits without building a payments compliance operation from scratch. The timing also lines up with IPX's own fundraising. The company closed a $4 million seed round around October 15, 2026, at a $125 million valuation. That capital is backing the upcoming launch of the platform and the introduction of a native token, $IPX. IPX also says more than 100 celebrities, athletes, and creators have signed exclusive agreements to tokenize their IP on the platform. The on-ramp problem, in context. Most of the money intellectual property generates, from licensing deals to fan support, still moves through bank transfers and card payments. None of that speaks blockchain natively. Without a reliable bridge, a tokenized IP asset risks becoming a collectible detached from the revenue it supposedly represents. Automatic conversion to USDC is IPX's attempt to keep the token and the income tied together. USDC is a dollar-pegged stablecoin, so creators receiving revenue are not suddenly exposed to price swings just because their money touched a blockchain. Base is a low-cost network, which matters when the goal is to route lots of revenue payments, some of them small, through smart contracts. What this means for creators, investors, and the IP market. For creators, the most immediate impact is convenience. If the system works as described, a musician or athlete could receive licensing income and have it flow into on-chain distribution without manually converting anything. For anyone watching the upcoming $IPX token, the integration addresses a core question: where does real value come from? A platform that can show verifiable revenue arriving on-chain has a stronger story than one relying purely on speculation. The integration does not go live until November 15, 2026, so there is no track record yet. Eligibility requirements also mean some users may not qualify, which could limit how widely the feature gets used at first. The key things to watch are the November launch, how many of IPX's 100-plus signed creators actually use the virtual accounts, and whether on-chain revenue figures start appearing once money begins moving. Disclosure: This article was edited by Kaye Quema. For more information on how Cryptobriefing create and review content, see its Editorial Policy.

ANI
Oct 29th, 2026
Inkle, the U.S. CPA firm built in Bengaluru, acquires Finally's bookkeeping division.

Inkle, the U.S. CPA firm built in Bengaluru, acquires Finally's bookkeeping division. ANI | Updated: Oct 29, 2026 15:44 IST VMPLNew Delhi [India], October 29: Inkle, the AI-powered CPA and bookkeeping firm for U.S. companies, today announced that it has acquired the bookkeeping division of Finally, the financial operations platform for small businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, Inkle builds its software and runs a core part of its delivery from Bengaluru (India), where its 60-member team of engineers, product designers, tax professionals, and bookkeepers is based.Inkle was founded in 2022 by Indian-origin founders Anand Krishna, who leads the company from San Francisco, and Ranvir Singh, who leads technology from Bengaluru. Their model pairs a U.S.-licensed CPA practice with product, engineering, and AI built in India. Inkle Books, the company's general ledger, its tax and compliance platform, and the AI that now handles much of the routine work are all designed and built by the Bengaluru team, which works alongside the accountants who use them every day.The timing reflects a structural shift in American accounting. The U.S. faces a growing shortage of CPAs and bookkeepers as a large share of the profession approaches retirement and fewer people enter it: accounting degrees awarded fell to 55,152 in 2023-24, down 6.6% from the prior year, according to the AICPA's 2025 Trends Report. Millions of small businesses still need their books, taxes, and compliance done. Inkle's view is that this gap will be filled not by more traditional firms but by technology-led platforms, and that India's engineering and finance talent will build a large part of them.Inkle also sits on one of the busiest corridors in global entrepreneurship. Every year it helps hundreds of companies incorporate in the United States, many of them started by Indian founders setting up Delaware C-Corps to raise capital and sell to American customers, and then manages their ongoing U.S. tax and compliance, from federal returns and Delaware franchise tax to cross-border filings such as Form 5472 and FBAR. Inkle is also the cross-border compliance partner for Stripe Atlas for Indian founders.The acquisition brings approximately 100 Finally team members in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Miami, Boca Raton, and New York into Inkle, taking the company to around 160 people across five countries. Together with its Bengaluru team, Inkle now delivers around the clock across the Americas and Asia. The deal also extends Inkle beyond venture-backed startups into the non-tech small businesses that make up the bulk of America's employer base: owner-operators, professional services firms, contractors, clinics, and restaurants. Finally's bookkeeping clients will continue working with the same teams, now on Inkle's platform. Inkle has reached profitability on $1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Picus Capital, Saison Capital, and Force Ventures, a fraction of what competitors have raised in a category where several far better-funded players have exited the market. It offers its software free and charges only for AI-backed bookkeeping, tax, and compliance services, delivered on Inkle Books or on QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books, and Mercury Books."Ranvir and I are delighted to announce Inkle's first acquisition," said Anand Krishna, co-founder and CEO of Inkle. "Inkle is an American company that serves American small businesses, and it's built in Bengaluru. That combination is our edge: U.S. CPAs who own the outcome, and an engineering team in India building the software and AI that let them serve far more businesses, far better, than a traditional firm. We're building the AI-powered Big Four, and this acquisition helps us take that to the businesses that make up most of the American economy."Because Inkle's engineers sit alongside the accountants and bookkeepers who use its software, issues raised by the delivery team are often fixed within a day. Bringing Finally's team onto the platform built in Bengaluru is the largest test of that model so far.The transaction was structured as an all-cash asset purchase. Financial terms were not disclosed. Inkle thanks the pioneers at Finally, who built a great product and bookkeeping business serving thousands of U.S. companies.ABOUT INKLEInkle is a U.S. AI-powered CPA and bookkeeping firm, headquartered in San Francisco and incorporated in Delaware, with its product and engineering hub in Bengaluru. It combines a licensed CPA practice with its own software, including Inkle Books, and frontier AI to deliver bookkeeping, tax, and compliance to thousands of U.S. businesses, and helps hundreds of founders incorporate in the U.S. every year. Inkle is profitable and backed by Picus Capital, Saison Capital, and Force Ventures, with teams in the United States, India, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Learn more athttps://www.inkle.ai/contact.(ADVERTORIAL DISCLAIMER: The above press release has been provided by VMPL. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of the same.)

Upstarts Media
Oct 28th, 2026
Stripe alums launch Rocker, an AI work assistant for big businesses, with $13M

Rocker, an AI assistant for large organisations, has emerged from stealth with $12.85 million in funding. Greycroft led the round, with Anthropic, Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, Matchstick, and Stripe also taking part. Founded by former Stripe colleagues Alex Vogenthaler, chief executive officer, and Peter Terrill, the app connects to tools such as Google Docs, Slack, and email. It identifies a user's top priorities, flags critical messages and decisions that are slipping through, and cuts busywork. Rocker builds a context graph for each user inside a company's own cloud environment, so it does not access sensitive enterprise data. It is testing with large organisations, including public companies, and opens its waitlist today, prioritising larger teams.

COYTX GLOBAL LLC
Oct 28th, 2026
Stripe launches free instant B2B payments through business handles.

Stripe launches free instant B2B payments through business handles. By anonymous - October 28, 2026 Stripe has introduced free instant business-to-business transfers through a new Stripe Pay plug-in, allowing companies to send money using business profile handles as the payments firm develops separate stablecoin and AI-agent payment services. According to Stripe's October 27 announcement, businesses can identify another company through its Stripe profile and transfer funds without a fee. The service is available through the Stripe Dashboard and command-line interface, providing another way for businesses to move money between accounts without entering conventional bank details for each recipient. The launch comes as Stripe develops financial accounts, digital wallets and payment tools that can support automated transactions. Its stablecoin products are separate from the new B2B transfer plug-in, although both form part of the company's expanding financial infrastructure. Stripe Pay introduces free business transfers through profile handles. Under Stripe's official documentation, a sender must have a funded financial account, while the recipient needs a financial account connected to an existing Stripe profile. Businesses can identify recipients using a public handle, such as @recipient, or a unique profile network identifier. For companies that do not know the recipient's exact details, Stripe directs users to its business directory to locate potential matches. The documentation requires customers to verify the intended business before authorizing payment, reducing the chance of sending money to the wrong account. The plug-in supports authentication through the Stripe CLI, with users instructed to confirm their active account before transferring funds. Businesses without an existing profile can create one during the setup process, subject to the required account information. Stripe's payment instructions include a dry-run option for checking transfer details without moving money. The system requires confirmation of the recipient, amount, currency and funding account before an automated workflow proceeds with an actual transfer. Company CEO Patrick Collison welcomed the launch, writing in an October 27 post that account-to-account payments would become more important than person-to-person transfers. Stripe develops separate payment tools for AI agents. Stripe Pay's support for command-line payments sits alongside the company's work on financial services for AI agents, although its announcement does not say that the plug-in itself settles transfers using stablecoins. At its 2026 Sessions conference, Stripe introduced agent-ready financial accounts designed to let software agents check balances, pay invoices, issue cards and manage cash. Its product plans include human approval for important transactions and controls over automated spending. The company has separately introduced Link's wallet for agents, which can provide single-use virtual cards or shared payment tokens backed by a customer's existing cards and bank accounts. Customers retain control over authorized purchases, while agents receive payment credentials limited to approved transactions. Other services allow developers to create programmable wallets for AI agents through Privy. These wallets can support digital-asset holdings, automated transactions and spending activity, depending on the provider and product configuration. As crypto.news previously reported on agent payments, Stripe introduced USDC-based payments through Coinbase's x402 protocol in February. The system allows AI software to pay for digital services without relying on conventional checkout processes for each transaction. Stablecoin infrastructure connects wallets, cards and settlement. Stripe's stablecoin business has developed through its acquisitions of Bridge and Privy, alongside payment products designed to help companies hold and transfer digital dollars. Its April product announcements included stablecoin-backed cards, expanded support for digital-dollar transactions and tools for issuing custom stablecoins. The company said businesses could make stablecoin payments available in more markets, while eligible cardholders could spend supported balances through conventional merchant networks. In October, the Open USD stablecoin network added another example of Stripe's participation in payment infrastructure. Bridge acts as the issuer of OUSD, while participating financial institutions and payment companies provide distribution, settlement and related services. Stripe has placed considerable attention on automated payments through Tempo, the blockchain developed with Paradigm. The network's mainnet launch in March introduced infrastructure for stablecoin transactions and machine payments. The company's 2025 annual letter estimated that stablecoin payment volume reached approximately $400 billion during the year, with business-to-business transfers accounting for around 60% of that activity. The estimate concerned stablecoin payments across the market, not transactions processed through the newly announced Stripe Pay service. Banks explore tokenized deposits alongside stablecoins. Traditional banks are developing separate systems for transferring tokenized commercial-bank deposits as payment companies introduce stablecoin services. Stripe's recent discussion of developments at Money20/20 described how tokenized deposits could allow financial institutions to move funds outside conventional banking hours. Such instruments represent claims on the issuing bank, unlike privately issued stablecoins backed by designated reserve assets. In July, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo were reported to be developing a shared deposit-token network. The initiative concerns bank-issued money and does not establish that Stripe Pay directly supports tokenized deposits. Stripe has not disclosed transaction volumes for the new profile-based transfer service or announced that its instant B2B payments are settled through the Tempo blockchain.

FF News
Oct 26th, 2026
Mastercard unveils transformed Experience Centre in Dubai to drive regional fintech innovation.

Mastercard unveils transformed Experience Centre in Dubai to drive regional fintech innovation. Mastercard has unveiled a transformed Experience Centre at its regional headquarters in Dubai, marking 40 years of operations in the UAE. For fintech professionals, this facility serves as a critical hub for the Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) region, providing a physical environment to test AI use cases and co-develop digital payment solutions across 81 markets. What was announced. The redesigned Mastercard Experience Centre, located in Dubai Internet City, is structured into three distinct zones designed to facilitate different stages of product development and client engagement. The Discovery zone is tailored for executive briefings and high-level strategy sessions. The Experience zone utilizes immersive demonstrations to showcase Mastercard's current technology stack, allowing partners to evaluate applications in real-time. Finally, the Engagement zone provides dedicated collaboration rooms where product teams and customers can move from ideation to structured workshop development. The facility is intended to serve a broad spectrum of the financial ecosystem, including issuing banks, merchants, early-stage fintech founders, and government regulators. A significant focus of the new centre is the integration of artificial intelligence; visitors can explore specific use cases emerging from Mastercard's global Centre for AI and Advanced Technology, which is also based in Dubai. Beyond commercial applications, the centre will host the Mastercard Academy and engage with academic institutions through research projects and a planned student internship program starting in 2027. This transformation follows the original opening of the centre in 2018 and aims to accelerate the movement of value across the digital economy in the EEMEA region. "Over the past four decades, Mastercard has grown alongside the UAE, a country defined by ambition, partnership and a determination to keep moving forward. The Mastercard Experience Centre reflects that same spirit, bringing our technology closer to the people shaping the future of commerce." Mark Elliott, division president for East Arabia at Mastercard. The companies involved. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, operating as a primary processor of transactions between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of purchasers. With a presence in the UAE spanning four decades, the company has established itself as a cornerstone of the regional financial infrastructure. Mastercard's operations in Dubai serve as the strategic anchor for its Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) division, a territory encompassing 81 diverse markets. The company has historically transitioned from a traditional credit card network into a multi-rail payments leader, investing heavily in digital assets, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Its presence in Dubai Internet City places it within a major technology hub, facilitating direct interaction with the region's growing fintech and startup community. As a publicly traded entity, Mastercard remains one of the most influential players in the global movement of value, competing directly with other major card networks while increasingly positioning itself as a technology partner for governments and digital-first financial institutions. What FF News has reported before. FF News has extensively tracked Mastercard's strategic shifts toward emerging technologies and regional growth. Recently, the company has focused on securing the digital asset space, as seen when Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security to Combat Fraud in Digital Asset Payments. The firm's research also highlights the massive potential of its EEMEA footprint; a Mastercard Report: Africa's Digital Economy to Hit $1.5 Trillion by 2030 Amid Rising Cyber Threats underscored the need for the very infrastructure the Dubai centre provides. Additionally, Mastercard continues to expand its reach through partnerships, such as when Stoa Partners with Stripe and Mastercard to Launch Virtual Card Perks for Savers, demonstrating the company's role in enabling niche fintech offerings. What this means. The expansion of the Dubai Experience Centre signals a shift in how global payment networks maintain dominance: by becoming indispensable R&D partners rather than just service providers. As the EEMEA region experiences rapid digital transformation, Mastercard is under pressure to ensure its rails remain the default choice against local domestic schemes and emerging non-card payment methods. By anchoring its AI and advanced technology research in Dubai, Mastercard is betting that proximity to regional regulators and fintech hubs will provide a competitive moat. The move raises questions for competitors about whether physical innovation hubs are still the most effective way to capture market share in an increasingly decentralized digital economy. Featured speakers.