Stripe is hiring a
Product Manager

Summary

Join Stripe as the Product Manager for the Optimized Checkout API Platform and design and scale APIs used by hundreds of thousands of businesses, while working with companies ranging from innovative startups to Fortune 500s.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on financial products
• Experience in working in a highly cross-functional role that requires advanced stakeholder management