Staff Product Manager, Cards Monetization

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 The Stripe Issuing team enables users–from the most promising startups and largest platforms in the world to Stripe itself—to build and launch successful card programs and financial features into their product using powerful programmatic APIs and intuitive UIs. 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 across the world. WHAT YOU’LL DO As EMEA 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 in EMEA. 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 in EMEA like a standalone business, with expertise in partnering with go-to-market teams to scale our EMEA 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 build the EMEA Issuing strategy and roadmap, and cross-functional internal stakeholders to build compliant and scalable products.   RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead our Stripe Issuing effort in UK and Europe * Shape the direction and product strategy for helping users manage their card programs * Partner with engineering to bring new Stripe Issuing product solutions to the UK and European markets * Collaborate with other Stripe teams (design, legal, risk, compliance, engineering, etc.) early in the product development lifecycle and jointly shape product plans that lead with delightful and helpful user experiences * Own the roadmap and go-to-market, with product marketing, of EMEA Stripe Issuing * Act as the voice of the user in product and API designs, gathering direct feedback from customers * Ensure we’re building in a scalable, performant way WHO YOU ARE We're looking for someone who: * Brings 8+ years of experience in a product role * Has domain knowledge in financial products, particularly card issuing, financial systems, and card networks * Strong focus on scaling products in close collaboration with go-to-market teams * Has experience building platform and/or API products * 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 be a steward of crafting great experiences

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 ORGANIZATION  The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates. Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.  Regardless of team, you will own a critical piece of Stripe's payments stack, define product strategy that balances user needs with infrastructure complexity, and ship products that directly impact Stripe's revenue and the success of millions of businesses. WHAT YOU’LL DO We’re looking for Staff Product Managers who deeply understand their customers and want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs. RESPONSIBILITIES * Develop the long-term vision and strategy for your pillar and create and execute on a compelling roadmap * Build deep user empathy with both Stripe's merchants and financial partners, understanding global payment industry trends and competitors' offerings to influence Stripe's roadmap effectively * 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 * Use metrics to inform your point of view and leverage analytics to measure success 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 industry product management experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops) * Experience in payments, fintech, financial infrastructure, or a closely adjacent domain (e.g., commerce platforms, banking, payment networks) and a track record of building highly impactful products * Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers, designers, and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale * Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a knack for precise and concise articulation of user problems * Strong analytical capabilities with experience defining and tracking success metrics, running experiments (e.g., holdback tests), and using data to measure product impact on revenue, conversion, and margins * Experience working on products that require aligning multiple stakeholders, developing joint roadmaps, and navigating competing priorities between internal goals and external partner objectives * Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with significant autonomy and responsibility * Background delivering successfully on multi-quarter roadmaps and aligning and influencing diverse stakeholders to achieve shared goals * Strong business acumen and comfort with complex ecosystem and platform-level problems PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Bachelor's degree (or relevant degree equivalent): Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences * Demonstrated success and strong execution track record in building payment products * Experience working at scale — you've managed products handling high transaction volumes where availability, latency, and marginal basis points matter

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 The Issuing team owns the Stripe card issuing product end to end from the APIs and backend services that power spend cards, debit cards, and charge cards, to the dashboard and embedded components that businesses use to manage their card programs. We build the infrastructure and interfaces that let platforms and businesses instantly create, distribute, and control payment cards at scale, and we're responsible for the full cardholder lifecycle across commercial and consumer issuing. We're at an inflection point. Issuing is expanding into new geographies, new card categories (stablecoin, healthcare, consumer credit), and deeper partnerships with major platforms. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at the intersection of financial infrastructure, developer-facing APIs, and end-user product experience, and it requires someone who can lead technically across a complex, fast-moving domain. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Define and drive the technical strategy for Issuing, including multi-year architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces.  * Own end-to-end technical solutions for critical systems, authorization flows, spending controls, cardholder management, and card program configuration, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and operationally sound.  * Identify and lead infrastructure investments that unlock new issuing models, including geographic expansion, new card program types, and platform-level extensibility.  * Collaborate closely with product managers, design, and cross-functional partners across Issuing, Authorization, Clearing and Settlement, and Balances to drive cross-cutting initiatives from design through launch.  * Make principled build-vs-reuse decisions and produce clear technical roadmaps that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform health.  * Advise engineering and product leadership on technical trade-offs and their downstream implications for the business.  * Drive engineering standards, tooling improvements, and operational rigor across the team.  * Mentor and grow senior engineers, investing in their technical development and helping build the next generation of technical leaders on the team. RESPONSIBILITIES * Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.  * Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack. Mentor engineers to help them grow.  * Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.  * Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues. 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 industry software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at a staff or equivalent scope (leading initiatives across multiple teams or systems).  * Proven track record designing and shipping large-scale user-facing products with distributed backend systems that are both highly available and financially correct.  * Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end — from requirements through architecture, delivery, and post-launch iteration.  * Strong API design instincts and the ability to build simple, developer-friendly interfaces over inherently complex financial and regulatory requirements.  * Ability to influence technical direction and align multiple teams without direct authority, with excellent written and verbal communication across engineers, product, and leadership.  * High ownership mindset—comfortable with ambiguity, able to define the problem and the plan, not just execute a predefined spec.  * Clear, precise communication on complex technical topics for both technical and non-technical audiences. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience building or operating real-time transaction processing systems with strict latency and correctness requirements (authorizations, payments, ledgering, settlement).  * Familiarity with card network protocols, BIN sponsorship models, or issuing bank integrations (Visa, Mastercard, or equivalent).  * Experience in regulated financial services—compliance-aware system design, audit trails, financial controls, or KYC or KYB flows.  * Background in embedded finance, card-as-a-service, or Banking-as-a-Service platforms. Experience with high-volume event-driven architectures and the reliability and consistency tradeoffs they introduce.  * Track record of mentoring senior engineers and contributing meaningfully to engineering hiring and culture.