Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
You will lead and develop a team of program managers that helps Stripe compete more effectively in its highest-priority situations. You will turn an emerging capability into a durable operating model: set team goals and work plans, prioritize scarce capacity with Stripe leadership and Market Intelligence, and ensure centrally staffed competitor programs are measurable and connected to the functional teams that own decisions and delivery.
What they're looking for
- Demonstrated success leading complex, global, cross-functional programs from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and durable operational handoff
- A player-coach mindset: high ownership, sound judgment, adaptability under pressure, and a collaborative, hands-on approach that sets a high bar for quality
- Experience establishing goals, work plans, operating cadences, decision forums, and success measures for initiatives spanning regions, segments, product lines, and multiple stakeholders
- Strong judgment in prioritizing competing demands and allocating limited team capacity to the highest-value work
- Ability to navigate senior stakeholders with differing incentives and decision rights, drive alignment while making trade-offs and escalation paths explicit
- Proven ability to structure qualitative and quantitative inputs into clear recommendations, assess program health and risk, and guide prioritization with data
More about this role
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.
The Competitive Programs team, which is part of the Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategic Programs team, is a new team dedicated to establishing and scaling Stripe’s Competitive Programs capability. Stripe operates in a dynamic and evolving competitive landscape. This role will help Stripe understand market developments and translate competitive insights into actionable guidance for teams and users.
In partnership with Market Intelligence, you will identify meaningful threats and opportunities early, mobilize cross-functional action, and turn market and deal signals into better Product, Marketing, and GTM decisions. You will own the competitive operating system: program design, cross-functional...
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