Technical Program Manager, Optimized Checkout

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.

Stripe’s Payments Experiences teams are passionate about helping merchants build highly optimized, delightful payment experiences. This includes Stripe’s Payment Links, Elements, and Checkout products which re-imagine how consumers shop over the internet making it extremely convenient and secure to pay across thousands of merchants which in turn drives conversion and reduces cost for merchants. The TPM team partners closely with the product and engineering, go-to-market, and our customers to drive the teams’ highest priority goals.

Effective Technical Program Managers 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. Optimized Checkout is still in early days and you will have a significant influence on the product roadmap and technical direction for the team.

• 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. You will bring your experience and contextual knowledge to bear on the problems that teams need to solve

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.

• 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. You will have a strong understanding of our product roadmaps and help leaders navigate how to balance meeting the roadmap and balancing priority customer needs

•  Experience with payments-related products