Product Finance & Strategy Lead, Payments

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

As we continue to expand our product suite and global presence, we are looking for an insightful and analytical leader to be the financial and strategic partner to product teams focused on building Stripe’s growing suite of Payment products. This is an opportunity to contribute to the long-term growth potential of Stripe’s current Payment business and to help develop business cases for emerging payment products. Your work will be highly visible to Stripe leadership, and will drive key insights and decisions for product teams and executive discussions. The ideal candidate is a self starter, strategic thinking, excellent communicator, and thrives in a fast paced environment.

What you’ll do

 

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end strategic and financial planning processes for a variety of product teams including business reviews, BOD materials, budgeting, forecasting, opex planning, and strategic headcount planning. You will help drive alignment with business leadership and improve processes to enable growth and scale.
• Define & help deliver the strategy for our products with rigorous thinking and frameworks and answer key questions business leaders are wrestling with, including product/investment prioritization, GTM plans, pricing, features, commercialization, and partnerships where needed.
• Develop and monitor critical success and business performance metrics, and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders (e.g., you identify and report on key performance indicators that capture the impact of a recent product change).
• Provide analytical rigor and bring strategic leadership to operational initiatives (e.g., you quantify the size of an opportunity that would require cross-functional partnership to address, and effectively collaborate with key stakeholders).
• Help build and develop a high caliber team of Finance & Strategy professionals.

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

• 10+ years of relevant experience within strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth technology company. Investment banking, management consulting and/or private equity experience will also be considered. 
• People management experience and demonstrated success in building and leading high performing finance teams.
• Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way.
• A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor.
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality to go deep into business analysis and understand details while managing Exec-level communication.
• Adept at navigating ambiguity and thriving in unstructured, fast-paced environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn is a must.

 

Hybrid work at Stripe

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $183,600 - $275,400. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their