Product Manager, Stripe Infrastructure

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 Infrastructure Product Team is responsible for ensuring that Infrastructure and Data capabilities, services, and abstractions are healthy and meeting the needs of our customers - both internal teams and, in some cases, external users. We partner closely with internal teams to prioritize features, define vision and longer-term roadmap for new capabilities, and ensure we are delivering the best experiences for our customers

What you’ll do

As a Product Manager on the Infrastructure PM team, you'll aim to deliver the best experience for developers in the industry.  Stripe infrastructure is composed of high availability distributed systems that powers Stripe products. We’re looking for a product manager who loves developers and wants to interact with them daily to understand their needs.   

Responsibilities

• Partner with the engineering team to ship functionality that delights users, has the right balance of impact vs engineering cost, and makes a measurable impact on the business
• Interact with external users and propose critical infrastructure abstractions that best serve them
• Validate product ideas and prototypes with early adopters
• Define key success metrics for developer products
• Work closely with developer relations and developer marketing to launch new features and drive product awareness and adoption
• Work on service definition and roadmap internal to the company
• Work on external user-facing APIs and abstractions like provisioned capacity, abstractions for end users to achieve complete fault tolerance, developer facing dashboards for users to diagnose errors in their usage of Stripe, etc.

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

Our ideal Product Manager will be relentlessly user-focused, highly analytical, comfortable in ambiguity, have strong technical skills, and the desire to create something new. 

• Both passion for and experience shipping APIs and tools for developers.
• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Computer Science background or equivalent technical experience 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong understanding of developer needs
• You’re knowledgeable of the tools and processes development teams use to develop, build, and, test integrations
• You are hands-on with APIs and documentation

Preferred qualifications 

• People who have proposed pricing for products and/or modeled provisioned capacity