Job Description

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 Currency Management Team’s mission is to make it delightful for users to manage their money. We’re rebuilding and unbundling the core of Stripe so that no matter what the business, the location or use-case there is a single place that can fulfil all financial needs. If that sounds exciting we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a leader who has a strong background in building successful products, a passion for leading engineers to solve challenging problems while developing empathetic partnerships with other Stripe teams to understand their use-cases, unlock new capabilities and innovate. At the same time, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts as well as acting as a technical mentor and leader for Stripe engineers.

Responsibilities

• Enable the team to work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
• Support the engineering team in building experiences for businesses that range from high growth startups to leading global companies providing them with the tools so they can run their business 
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations.
• Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe.
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.

Who you are

We’re looking for a leader with experience building great products and teams. If that sounds like you then we encourage you to apply: 

Minimum requirements

• At least 3+ years of experience building and managing a team or teams to ship high-quality products.
• Have a strong technical background as a contributor, including 4+ years of industry experience building user facing products.
• Have experience in designing and/or building great user experiences on different form-factors i.e. web / mobile.
• Work effectively cross-functionally and are able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
• Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• Technical acumen to drive clarity with senior engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
• Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that’s both challenging and supportive.
• Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers

Preferred qualifications

• Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets.