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

We believe startups are the future. We work with many of the newest and
most innovative companies to help them grow, and we need your help.
We're looking for someone who knows their way around the early-stage
startup ecosystem to represent Stripe and share what we're working on
with a broad base of startups and venture capital partners. Our primary
goal is to help early-stage founders succeed, and that comes in a
variety of forms - mentorship, helping them set up their financial
stack, connecting them with investors, being their internal advocate,
and much more.

What you’ll do

In this role you will oversee Stripe’s most strategic accelerator and
early-stage venture capital partnerships. You’re an energetic and
organized self-starter; you understand the product well and can
cultivate trusted partnerships with the right players in the ecosystem.
You’re also able to succinctly communicate Stripe's mission and
benefits to investors and startups. You will be on the front lines for
evangelizing our product to prospective users and a key driver of our
success with startups. You connect dots, constantly soliciting input
from users and using that to improve product and GTM strategy. If you’re
excited to spend your days interfacing with startup founders and
early-stage investors, and find energy in tirelessly helping early-stage
founders as they look to start and scale, then we’d love to talk.

Responsibilities

• Oversee our Y Combinator partnership and partner across the business
  to ensure that every founder's experience of Stripe is surprisingly
  delightful
  
• Build out and oversee the execution of key programs; spin up new
  initiatives that add continuous value to startups
  
• Serve as a point of escalation for top startups to grow Stripe’s brand
  within the startup ecosystem, and act as a product feedback loop to
  internal teams to ensure that we continue to build for the highest
  potential businesses
  
• Work cross functionally with key internal stakeholders to forward
  strategic Stripe initiatives for startup founders
  
• Collate startup ecosystem insights and prepare weekly / quarterly
  updates detailing business progress, market trends, and product
  feedback gathered from startup engagement
  
• Represent Stripe in the startup ecosystem and take up speaking
  opportunities at key startup events that bolster Stripe as the best
  platform for founders to start and scale
  
• Leverage your data prowess (SQL, etc) to build out tools that enable
  us to better serve founders and demonstrate impact
  
• Interest and demonstrated ability to cultivate deep, trust-based
  partnerships with some of the most consequential seed investors
  

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

• 5-7+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem with startup or
  investing experience
  
• Y Combinator Alumni (mandatory) with deep startup founder experience
  and a passion for helping other founders
  
• Strong understanding of the startup ecosystem, founder empathy, and
  ability to build strong partnerships
  
• A user-first mindset, anything less than perfect is unacceptable to
  you
  
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with internal and
  external stakeholders to get new programming off the ground
  
• You're a builder by nature and are excited to launch new initiatives
  within Stripe that extend surprisingly delightful experiences to best
  in class founders
  
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
  
• Hunger and motivation to operate (and thrive) in a highly ambiguous
  and fast-paced environment
  
• Humility, and who takes initiative with a "no task is too small" and
  “I’ll get it done” attitude
  

Preferred qualifications

• Well-networked individual who is active in the early-stage startup
  ecosystem
  
• Ability to understand a technical buyer and key moments in their
  life-cycle where payments decisions are made
  
• Adept public speaker, presenter and moderator
  
• Sales experience, understands channel partnerships and the value this
  channel brings to a GTM org
  
• Strong Data skills - conversant in SQL or Python - and willingness to
  build tools serve our users and measure business impact