Engineering Manager, Checkout Optimization

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 Checkout Optimization team is the growth team for Stripe’s checkout UIs. They build high-converting, personalized checkout experiences for buyers and agents, as well as the data platform that powers it.

The team identifies opportunities to improve checkout through rapid product experimentation and delivers optimization at scale through our ML-powered engine. The team also builds the reliable data foundations that enable this work, including experimentation, optimization, and data-informed product decisions across Stripe’s checkout suite.

Over the next 6 to 12 months, the team will focus on:

  • Building personalized checkout experiences powered by the ML-based Optimization Engine
  • Agentic commerce through optimizing OCS experiences for agent buyers
  • Checkout optimization for rapidly growing AI companies
  • Improving our data platform, which is critical to leveraging data internally and externally

What you’ll do

Engineering Managers at Stripe are responsible for the success of their team. You’ll be deeply involved in the engineering and design processes as well as coaching, mentoring, and leading the team. You’ll have a deep understanding of how to drive efficient engineering teams and you’ll have a strong user focus. You'll work with engineers on creating technical solutions and communicating effectively across teams and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a team of talented full-stack product and data engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
  • Understand buyer and agent needs and pain points to prioritize workstreams and deliver high-quality checkout experiences
  • Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Data Engineering, and engineering teams across Stripe to deliver these solutions
  • Lead experimentation and optimization work that improves checkout conversion and buyer experiences
  • Build and evolve the data platform that enables reliable, self-serve analysis, experimentation, and product decisions across OCS
  • Drive high standards for the quality, reliability, and usability of the data products and pipelines that support OCS decision-making
  • Recruit top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team
  • Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership, including architecture and design, vision, direction, requirements setting, and incident response processes for your team
  • Set the team’s direction, from north star vision to goals, OKRs, and roadmap

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+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
  • 10+ years of full-time software development experience, with a strong background in backend development
  • Experience working across geographies
  • Experience leading growth or product teams that have used experimentation to drive product usage and other metrics
  • Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for excellent user experiences

Preferred qualifications

  • Previous experience working in payments and on payments technology
  • Previous experience leading a growth team
  • Previous experience leading a data engineering team

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $354,000. 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.

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.

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