[Hiring] Technical Program Manager, Payments Experiences @Stripe

Role Description

Effective TPMs at Stripe always bias towards driving the right solutions for our users and internal stakeholders with the north star focus of delivering long term impact for the product and for Stripe. You’ll do this even when it’s not the easiest path for us or our teams, and requires trade-off decisions. You will look ahead and around corners to enable our teams to operate at their best, and for opportunities to eliminate the unnecessary in delivering results. Payments Experiences is still in early days. So you will have an opportunity to have significant influence on the product roadmap and technical direction for the team.

Responsibilities

• Drive functional and technical delivery of key team-, org-, and company-wide initiatives
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, scope, and shepherd features
• Create functional specs, project plans, and roadmaps
• Own and execute multiple software engineering programs simultaneously
• Help drive product decisions to align with higher company initiatives
• Help influence peers / managers and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity
• Drive clarity across all stakeholders on the goal, problem and outcomes the team is working towards
• Understand the technical problems that need to be solved, and work closely with necessary stakeholders of the engineering teams, technical systems/processes involved to define and manage the most effective way to enable teams to deliver solutions
• Bring rapid clarity to ambiguous situations, resolve them effectively, communicate decisions efficiently, and enable teams to move towards implementing solutions

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management or technical program management experience with extensive experience partnering closely with software engineering teams
• Experience providing program management during all phases of software development
• Proven track record of defining and executing complex programs across multiple functions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to establish strong relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders
• Thrive in solving ambiguous problems and see opportunities where others see chaos
• Experience influencing technical decisions particularly as they impact reliability, security, latency and scalability
• Relentless focus on users and solving for their needs and wants
• Have strong prioritization frameworks to drive development for the product team and customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payments-related products