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

Stripe’s Connect product is at the center of powering multi-party business models for SaaS Platforms and Marketplaces. It is the key enabler for millions of merchants and businesses across the global market to access Stripe products and services. Within Connect, we build the end-to-end user journey for both platforms and end businesses, the APIs that enable platforms to build their user models and business logic within their own context, the tools that Platforms can use to manage and grow their businesses, the product primitives that rest of Stripe leverages to distribute their product via Connect and platforms. We work across a wide range of domain platforms, infrastructures, partnering with all key Stripe products, and navigate organizational complexities. We are looking for a senior engineering leader who is clear headed at big picture thinking while capable of driving great iterative progress in a hands-on fashion, eager for an outsized business and user impact while being able to work across many functions and teams via strong partnerships and alliances.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering leader on Connect, you’ll be leading a group of engineers to partner very closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to build and enhance the Connect product for a large number of platforms and marketplaces who are building their ecosystems on Stripe. You’ll be a key leader to own and drive relevant success metrics, product delivery, and user happiness.

Responsibilities

• Understand the core mission and responsibilities of your organization. Set strategies and prioritizations on how to best achieve outsized impact and drive significant progress on core success metrics. 
• Work with engineers and PMs to design and build the right user experience and journey, the product offerings and features.
• Work with products, GTM, and other cross-functional partners to enable fast growth.
• Empower your team for high productivity, velocity, while delivering high quality outcomes.
• Effectively building strong relationships with other orgs and leaders, to achieve highly efficient collaborative results. Many of the hard problems need to be solved via close partnership with other organizations.
• Build and grow a healthy team with strong bench leaders.

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.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience managing and growing an organization of 30-50 engineers for 3+ years.
• Experience in managing managers and driving multiple mission-critical and highly visible efforts in parallel successfully. 
• Effectively recruited, mentored, and retained great people, who are extremely effective over the long term.
• Successfully built a team, defined its mission, set strategies, and executed its goals with high velocity and high quality.
• Experience with owning and driving core product and user metrics.
• Experience in designing and shipping user-facing product offerings.
• Experience working closely with Product Management and Design.
• The ability to thrive in a problem domain with high ambiguity, complexity, and can operate with great autonomy.
• The ability to work well across functions and organization, and are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.
• Constantly looking for ways to optimize for the best outcome.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in payments and embedded finance product domain is a nice plus but not a hard requirement.