Staff Product Manager, Issuing

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.

Kindred

Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank. Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel. To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more. Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined. We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful. You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times. THE ROLE We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to join our Supply & Inventory team. This role sits at the intersection of behavioral product design, marketplace economics, and growth. You'll work directly with your team to understand what drives — and blocks — members from hosting their homes, and build the product systems that unlock supply at scale. This means going deep on one of the most nuanced challenges in our marketplace: building hosting habits in members who've never considered opening their home to others. While this role begins with a focused mandate on hosting supply and inventory, Kindred PMs grow with the company. We expect the right person to develop deep expertise here and, over time, may take on other high-priority product focus areas as our team and roadmap evolve. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Own the supply-side product experience — driving members to host their homes, add availability, and build lasting hosting habits * Design product systems that make hosting feel natural, trustworthy, and rewarding — from first home setup all the way to becoming a recurring host * Go deep on the behavioral and economic drivers of hosting: who hosts, why they host, why they stop, and what moves the needle * Use AI prototyping tools and rapid experimentation to move fast — build confidence cheaply before committing to big bets * Rigorously prioritize the highest-leverage supply levers using both quantitative analysis and first principles thinking about human behavior * Collaborate closely with marketing, data science, design, and operations to drive systemic improvements in hosting supply * Champion the host's perspective in every product decision — developing a true, empathetic understanding of what it's like to host your personal home YOU MAY BE A RIGHT FIT IF YOU * Have 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time in consumer-facing, high-growth products * Have experience building marketplace or supply-constrained products — you've thought deeply about what drives supply-side behavior and how to move it systematically * Go deep on data: comfortable with funnel analysis, cohort studies, behavioral analysis, and designing new metrics from scratch * Are a first principles thinker — you reason from the ground up about what drives human behavior, rather than jumping to analogies or conventional solutions * Are scrappy and resourceful — comfortable with AI tools, prototyping tools, and lightweight experiments to build and test hypotheses quickly * Operate in ambiguity with a bias for action — you move fast and make good calls with incomplete information * Have a founder mindset — proactive, high-ownership, not above rolling up your sleeves * Bonus: experience designing incentive structures, behavioral nudges, or habit loops in consumer products OUR BENEFITS: At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection. Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data. * Competitive cash compensation and equity * Comprehensive health benefits * Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year * 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes * $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs * Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco * Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together * A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry * A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work.

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 You will be joining Stripe’s ML Foundations and Gen AI team to incubate new ML applications and improve our ML capabilities across Stripe. Our team is responsible for unlocking novel ML and LLM techniques and applications across Stripe’s product suite to drive business outcomes, as well as providing infrastructure, tooling and support for ML teams. WHAT YOU’LL DO As a senior product leader, you will lead a cross-functional team to define, incubate and scale new ML/AI applications across Stripe’s product suite, and drive our strategy and roadmap for ML/AI infrastructure powering all of Stripe’s teams. You will work closely with product leaders across business units to define and deliver on an AI-centric product strategy, launching new applications that drive incremental business outcomes.  At the same time, you will be advancing our core AI technology stack to empower teams across Stripe to infuse their scenarios with Agents and agentic capabilities, with API support for agent quality and continuous improvement. RESPONSIBILITIES * Develop and execute on the Stripe-wide strategy for new ML/AI applications across our product suite * Evaluate and align on areas of investment for ML/AI applications in collaboration with product leaders across the company  * Work with cross-functional teams to execute on the roadmap and launch successful new ML/AI applications * Communicate clearly and crisply with leadership stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple teams * Develop and execute on a strategy for advancing Stripe’s ML/AI infrastructure and tooling WHO YOU ARE We’re looking for someone who meets the requirements below, and has a passion for AI 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 * * 7+ years of experience delivering highly successful and innovative software products which are ML powered * Solid understanding of ML and applied AI tech stacks * Demonstrated ability to influence company level strategy and work with business leaders to execute on the transformation * You push the pace. You take blame and pass the praise. People love working with you. * Proven ability to lead teams and work cross-functionally in a highly collaborative environment. * Ability to analyze and use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions. * A deep understanding and empathy for consumer and business users — you love building products that make our customers feel joy, delight and trust. * Relentlessly drives product quality * Capable of working on both 1P and 3P products