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Director of Engineering, Payments

Patreon · San Francisco · Remote

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About Patreon

Backed by Index, NEA and CRV.

About the role

As an Engineering Leader of the Payments teams, you will be partnering with product, operations, design, and data to craft a vision and roadmap to deliver a high quality payments product for our creators and their fans. You will be overseeing a team of software engineers to realize that vision. Set technical direction and roadmap priorities in tight partnership with Product, Design, and PMM leads

More about this role

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.

Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:

$10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception

100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and

25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.

Patreon is looking for an Engineering Leader to lead our Payments team. This is one of the most consequential parts of Patreon's business: the systems that let creators earn a living and get paid reliably, and that let fans support them with a seamless, trustworthy checkout experience.

The Payments team owns the 1) Payments Infrastructure which includes bill processing, compliance, vendor integrations, pay-in and payout methods, 2) Payments Experience which includes fan-facing checkout, and creator-facing payout experience, 3) Support & Internal...

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