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
As we build financial infrastructure for the internet, Stripe operates within a context of increasingly complex and dynamic ecosystems, and against a frontier of ambiguous and unpredictable macro change. To help Stripe navigate uncharted waters and build an enduring, valuable business, we’re building a new type of Strategy team.
Corporate Strategy is a small, highly leveraged team that develops informed positions on big questions that matter most to our long-term value and influence downstream key strategic decisions. Whether it’s evaluating net-new opportunity areas, helping frame existential threats, or finding more effective ways to position ourselves to unlock value in our existing business, we approach problems with rigor, nuance, and intellectual humility.
What you’ll do
This is not your typical corporate strategy team; we don’t run the company planning processes, and we’re not “internal consultants”. While we report into Stripe’s President/Co-founder and partner closely with the leadership team, we’re interested in developing strategy work that has real teeth: strategy that is practical and connected with the rest of the company, not off in the clouds. We take a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing holistic understanding of problems and deploying product management skill sets in addition to traditional business analysis-backed approaches.
If you’re excited to help build a new model for strategy work, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
Help Stripe decide where to deploy its resources to maximize long-term strategic value
Tackle hard, ambiguous questions with rigor and independence, owning projects from problem definition to final recommendation
Clearly define the opportunity and risk of Stripe’s current and future product, customer, and geographic footprint, helping us to spot trends with impact on Stripe’s overall strategy
Work with teams across the company to influence their direction
Evaluate white space business, product, and partnership opportunities in adjacent markets
Drive strategic decisions, crisply framing a problem space, potential paths and tradeoffs, enabling Stripe to move quickly
Work with Stripe’s leadership team to ensure the company is positioned to execute on its strategy in the near- and long-term
Build thought leadership on the future state of the industry (e.g., the future of money movement) and potential impact to Stripe’s overall strategy
Help inspire an internal community of strategy across the company
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
You excel at hypothesis-driven problem solving and bringing structure to quantitative and qualitative insights
You are able to look at problems from novel perspectives and distill clarifying insights that connect with wide audiences
You are eager to have a high degree of ownership, directly framing and influencing Stripe’s most strategic decisions
You get a kick out of digging deep into the data, thinking from first principles, and delivering the best results
You have a proven track record for working well across teams and with external partners to solve hard problems
You are low ego and have a knack for working well with a wide range of people
You understand markets, competition, and how to leverage core competencies to create defensible strategies
You have a passion for technology and an understanding of software and business technology markets, trends, and dynamics
You have experience taking holistic ownership of problems, as a PM or founder
You have experience in strategy consulting, investing, or a comparable role in high growth tech companies
You have a unique perspective or experience that will complement the existing team
You rolled your eyes just a little bit when you heard “corporate strategy”
Preferred Qualifications
CS background or affinities
Experience in a high growth technology company
Experience in Corporate Strategy or Corporate Development (M&A)
Experience in Product Management
Experience in the payments or fintech space
To apply for this job please visit stripe.com.