Product Manager, Financial Connections - Bank Connectivity

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

Financial Connections is building the data connectivity layer for open finance and money movement. We are building tools for individuals and businesses to seamlessly share their financial data with Stripe and the businesses we power to unlock new product experiences, receive payouts, and make payments. We empower ambitious global businesses to build innovative products fast and run their entire financial lifecycle on Stripe, and we want you to be part of our story.

Financial Connections is part of Link. Stripe created Link to reimagine how merchants and consumers do business. With Link, you can save your payment information to be used at hundreds of thousands businesses and you can connect & manage bank accounts.

What you’ll do

As the Product Manager for Bank Connectivity within the Financial Connections team, you are responsible for building best-in-market connectivity experiences. Bank Connectivity builds and operates Stripe’s connectivity platform to financial institutions, delivering high-coverage, high-reliability connections. We connect to banks to empower consumers and businesses to securely share their data to manage their finances online, unlock new product experiences, receive payouts, and make payments.

You’ll shape the roadmap that continues to expand and deepen Stripe’s connectivity with financial institutions, working cross-functionally with engineering, partnerships, data science, compliance, legal, GTM, and partner product teams.You’ll work directly with users to make sure they are successful on Financial Connections.

You will:

• Bank Connectivity builds and operates Stripe’s connectivity platform to financial institutions, delivering high-coverage, high-reliability connections
• Setting an ambitious roadmap for product development and expansion
• Build novel tools and infrastructure to integrate connectivity for thousands of banks
• Continually raise the bar for reliability, latency, privacy, and product quality
• Incubate new bets to scale our business and develop more value for users

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for Bank Connectivity, prioritizing the most impactful bets to continually improve connectivity and deliver reliable and fast experiences to our users.
• Partner engineering, partnerships, and legal to shape and execute strategic partnerships with data providers
• Partner with GTM functions to bring your product to market and ensure we see adoption and growth
• Build feedback loops to inform our connectivity strategy and prioritization based on what our users need
• Discover net-new opportunities for our business and lead them from nascent stages to maturity

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

• Brings 5-7+ years of experience in a product role (ideally working on infrastructure or partnership-oriented products)
• Has an obsession with product quality and attention to detail to ensure we are continually delivering on it
• Has strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of customer problems
• Can put themselves in the shoes of their users and craft great experiences
• Takes an ownership mindset and works on whatever it takes to delight users
• Can dig deep into the data, solve problems independently, think from first principles, and deliver the right results

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working on financial products 
• Experience working with external partners and on strategic partnerships
• Experience building brand new products or working in a startup environment