Product Manager

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Infrastructure and Data Experiences Product Team (“IDX” for short) is responsible for ensuring that Stripe’s major engineering systems are meeting the needs of our customers - both internal teams and external users. We partner closely with Stripe’s CTO, Engineering leads and Product leads across Stripe to define technology vision, product capabilities, and roadmaps, while delivering reliable experiences for our customers

What you’ll do

As a Product Manager on the team, you’ll work with Stripe tech leaders to: 

• Grow the business through delightful user experiences and reliable infrastructure
• Streamline decision making and business operations through state of the art systems
• Deliver the best experience for developers in the industry

Stripe’s infrastructure is composed of high availability distributed systems that power Stripe products. We’re looking for a product manager who loves developers and works with them daily to understand their needs, has a knack for building beautiful product experiences with ergonomic user journeys, isn’t afraid of understanding large technical systems, and prioritizes users and business impact. The problems you will be working on are critical to unlock the next phase of growth at Stripe, ranging from unlocking international markets through local infrastructure to powering enterprise-grade experiences.     

Responsibilities

• Partner with the engineering teams, including Core Infra, Developer Infra, Data Platform, and Service Platform, to ship functionality that delights users, has the right balance of impact vs engineering cost, and makes a measurable impact on the business
• Interact with external users and propose critical infrastructure abstractions that best serve them
• Validate product ideas and prototypes with early adopters
• Define key success metrics for developer products
• Work closely with developer relations and developer marketing to launch new features and drive product awareness and adoption
• Work on infrastructure, API, data models/pipelines roadmaps 
• Work on external user-facing products including APIs, abstractions for end users to achieve complete fault tolerance, user reporting and more

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.

Minimum requirements

Our ideal Product Manager will be relentlessly user-focused, highly analytical, comfortable in ambiguity, have strong technical skills, and the desire to create something new. 

• Both passion for and experience shipping APIs and tools for developers.
• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Computer Science background or equivalent technical experience 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong understanding of developer needs
• You’re knowledgeable of the tools and processes development teams use to develop, build, and, test integrations
• You are hands-on with APIs and documentation

Preferred qualifications 

• People who have proposed pricing for products and/or modeled provisioned capacity