Product Lead, Issuing

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 Stripe Issuing team enables users to build and launch successful card programs and financial features into their product using powerful programmatic APIs. The team creates the infrastructure, user facing experiences, and partner integrations needed to manage the lifecycle of a card and enable efficient money movement. This is a great opportunity to help build one of Stripe’s fastest growing businesses. Our top users span fintechs to large enterprises & cover a range of verticals including Buy Now Pay Later, vertical SaaS platforms, on-demand marketplaces, expense management platforms, fleet, travel & more.

What you’ll do

As the Product Lead for Stripe Issuing, you will lead our product development efforts for building the best-in-class card issuance systems, including designing user-facing APIs and interfaces and working directly with top global users in building and growing their card programs around the world. This is a highly complex and challenging role that will require you to deeply understand user needs and collaborate across internal and partner teams to build and launch a seamless product experience at scale.

We’re looking for a strong Product Lead that can run Stripe Issuing like a standalone business, with expertise in partnering with go-to-market teams and engineering teams to scale our Issuing business. This Product Lead will spend significant time with users to deeply understand their needs and experiences, Stripe leadership and go-to-market teams to discuss Issuing strategy and roadmap, and cross-functional internal stakeholders to build compliant and scalable products.

On a day to day basis you would spend your time split between external meetings with customers and internal discussions with your engineering, marketing, analytics, and sales counterparts; as well as with your direct reports, coaching, mentoring, and hiring. This role will provide the opportunity to grow one of Stripe’s most strategic products and get feedback on your plans directly from Stripe’s leadership team.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product roadmap for our core Connect product 
• Devise strategy, steer product requirements, and oversee execution for some of the highest impact initiatives that serve modern marketplaces & software platforms 
• Work cross functionally with engineering, design, analytics, and other global teams to define, build, and deploy products that delight our users 
• Build and coach your team on best practices in defining product requirements and how to deliver against those requirements and the overall roadmap 

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

• 5+ years of managing product managers, 10+ years as a product manager
• Experience leading cross-team initiatives from ideation to execution
• Technical expertise: You’ve led technical products and/or have a background in computer science (or similar)
• Experience building both new products (0->1) as well as a track record of shipping continuous product improvements to an existing product portfolio
• Experience building platform and/or API products
• Deep user empathy and a high bar for user experience
• Persistence and a whatever-it-takes approach to ensure that your product is successful
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working on a platform and/or marketplace product
• Experience working on a paytech/fintech product