Product Manager, Stripe Infrastructure - Stripe

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

Stripe aims to deliver the best experience for developers in the industry.  Stripe infrastructure is composed of high availability distributed systems that powers Stripe products. 

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a product manager who loves developers and wants to interact with them daily to understand their needs.

Projects your team may work on:

• Partner with the engineering team 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 service definition and roadmap internal to the company 
• Work on external user-facing APIs and abstractions like provisioned capacity, abstractions for end users to achieve complete fault tolerance, developer facing dashboards for users to diagnose errors in their usage of Stripe, etc.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including engineering managers and senior infrastructure engineers, to understand customer needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Define the technical vision and roadmap for the suite of products managed by the team, aligning it with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and advancements in observability practices to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, progress, and any potential risks or challenges.

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

• Both passion for and experience shipping APIs and tools for developers. 
• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Computer Science background or equivalent technical experience 
• Preferred but optional: People who have proposed pricing for products and/or modeled provisioned capacity.

Preferred qualifications

• You have strong written and verbal communication skills 
• You have a 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

Last updated: 12 days ago