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

Tax laws around the world are complex and ever-changing – are you up for the challenge of simplifying them? We're making taxes easier for thousands of global businesses, so they can focus on what they do best: growing.

Solving tax compliance is a top ask from our users. We launched Stripe Tax as a new SaaS product in 2021 to help solve this pain point and make tax compliance as effortless as possible. The Stripe Tax Capabilities team is Europe-based and focuses on building a scalable and reliable platform that accelerates product development, reduces long-term maintenance costs, and enables new business capabilities across Stripe and its partners.

What you’ll do

We are seeking a highly experienced leader with a proven track record in developing and executing a multi-year strategy, developing partnerships with third-party partners, driving execution on complex cross-functional initiatives, building a scalable and reliable platform, upholding engineering standards, and recruiting and developing engineers.

You will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts and will serve as a world-class coach 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.
• Develop and execute a multi-year strategy for your team. You'll translate the high-level vision into a clear, ambitious, and executable plan for your team.
• Develop new and existing partnerships with the Stripe 3P partners in the tax compliance scene.
• Develop a scalable and reliable platform that accelerates development, reduces long-term maintenance costs, and enables new business capabilities across Stripe and its partners.
• Drive execution on complex, ambiguous, and cross-functional initiatives. You'll be the key leader responsible for solving systemic issues, managing dependencies, and collaborating with senior counterparts in Product, Partnership, Design, and other orgs to deliver results.
• Uphold and advance the bar for your function. Instill a culture of operational excellence, meticulous craftsmanship, and rigorous thinking.
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers. Be a world-class coach who is deeply invested in the career growth and development of your direct reports.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.

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

• At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
• Strong strategic and product thinking, with a demonstrated ability to set and execute on a multi-year vision to deliver quantifiable business impact.
• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Customer obsession, with the ability to articulate and represent the customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome that benefits our customers.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate effectively with senior, cross-functional and 3P partners.
• A genuine enjoyment of learning and diving into the nuts and bolts of how things work - in this role, you’ll learn lots about the intricacies of tax compliance, across multiple countries and industries
• A proven track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing engineers.

Preferred qualifications

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