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Finance & Strategy Lead, Payments Product

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 Finance & Strategy team is a key thought partner to Stripe’s product leaders. We bring financial rigor, strategic clarity, and analytical depth to the decisions that shape Stripe’s product portfolio and long-term growth strategy.

The Payments Products Finance & Strategy team sits at the intersection of Payments and Agentic Commerce. The team is increasingly evaluating opportunities across the entire Stripe Payments portfolio with rapidly evolving market dynamics as new agentic commerce tools and behaviors form.  These areas require a finance leader who can operate across different stages of maturity, bring structure to complexity, and drive financial outcomes in an ambiguous environment.

What you’ll do

We're seeking a seasoned finance leader to lead our Agentic Commerce ambitions, both internally and externally. You’ll partner with product and engineering leads for Agentic Commerce, acting as a trusted financial and strategic advisor.  You’ll be a thought partner in developing frameworks for how to assess the evolving landscape, identify areas for growth and drive investment frameworks / strategic insights that enable Stripe to best capture this opportunity.  

This is a highly cross-functional role and requires the ability to understand the different needs in each organization and translate technical language into concise commercial insights.  Moreover, you’ll build the analytical infrastructure leveraging AI and tooling, to ensure this team delivers system-level improvements in how we deliver insights going forward.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a financial and strategic advisor to the business, building investment cases and business plans, and evaluating business performance.  
  • Create executive-ready presentations that tell the “investor narrative” taking into account internal data as well as external resources 
  • Support new business / product launches, helping drive strategy and decision-making by bringing rigorous driver-based financial analyses / frameworks and product and industry expertise to help product leaders evaluate tradeoffs and shape strategic roadmaps. 
  • As the business matures, establish and maintain key business metrics and KPIs to measure performance of new products.
  • Lead the quarterly forecast and annual strategic financial planning process.
  • Develop long range financial models with scenario analysis and actionable recommendations on growth, monetization and where to prioritize investments. 
  • Present performance in business forums, highlighting drivers, risks and actionable insights.
  • Drive process improvement and analytics scalability, partnering cross-functionally to evolve data infrastructure, reporting and analytics.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to enable the team to operate at the leading edge of financial analysis.

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

  • At least 10+ years of relevant experience within strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth technology company and/or with prior experience in hedge funds, sell-side, or VC with strong analytical background (i.e. investment banking)  
  • B.A. or B.S degree in related field
  • Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way
  • Ability to create polished, executive- and investor-ready presentations that communicate complex narratives clearly and concisely with high impact
  • Broad exposure to multiple industries and sectors; experience in technology, SaaS, or AI is a plus
  • Proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and executives; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor
  • An enthusiastic self-starter with a "roll up your sleeves" mentality
  • Ability to manage multiple work streams and maintain high performance under tight timelines
  • Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  • Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred qualifications

  • Deep understanding of payment and card networks economics
  • Experience as a finance business partner supporting a partnerships or deal-making function

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $183,200 - $274,800. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

New York, South San Francisco HQ, Seattle, or Chicago

Remote locations

Remote in United States

Team

Finance & Strategy

Job type

Full time

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We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.