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
Financial Connections is building new product capabilities that expand the scope of problems we tackle beyond payments and into the rest of the financial stack. We are building a way for individuals and businesses (i.e., account holders) to seamlessly share their financial data with Stripe and our merchants to receive better product experiences. We have an ambitious end goal to allow global businesses to run their entire financial life cycle on Stripe, and we want you to be part of our story.
You will lead and scale multiple teams within the Financial Connections organization. This is a 'manager of managers' role, and your primary focus will be on developing your managers, scaling the organization, and setting the long-term technical and product strategy. You will be a key leader responsible for attracting and growing world-class talent, managing complex cross-functional projects, and ensuring your teams deliver outstanding results for Stripe's users.
Responsibilities
- Obsess over talent: Recruit, hire, and develop a high-performing and inclusive team of Engineering Managers. Be a world-class coach who is deeply invested in the career growth and development of your direct reports.
- Elevate ambitions: Develop and execute a multi-year strategy for your organization. You'll translate the high-level vision into a clear, ambitious, and executable plan for your teams.
- Lead with clarity and context: Empower your teams to operate with a high degree of autonomy. Ensure your managers and their teams have the necessary context to make high-quality decisions and "move with urgency and focus."
- Solve problems: Drive execution on complex, ambiguous, and cross-functional initiatives. You'll be the key leader responsible for solving systemic issues, managing dependencies, and collaborating with senior counterparts in Product, Design, and other orgs to deliver results.
- Be meticulous in your craft: Uphold and advance the bar for your function. Instill a culture of operational excellence, meticulous craftsmanship, and rigorous thinking.
- Users first: Partner closely with users, product managers, and other leaders to define your organization's roadmap and ensure your teams are building for the long-term needs of Stripe's users.
- Drive Quantifiable Impact: Define, own, and report on the key metrics for your organization. You will be directly accountable for your teams' impact and its measurable contribution to broader business goals (e.g., user adoption, system reliability, and product-market fit).
Who you are
We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager of Managers with outstanding technical and people management skills to lead and grow a set of excellent engineers and engineering leaders. In this role, your technical experience will be a critical leverage point for developing and influencing strategies that will grow the overall business.
If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.
Minimum requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing other managers.
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with 5+ years in a direct people management role.
- Experience managing and scaling an organization of 40+ software engineers and managers.
- A proven track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing managers.
- The ability to thrive in a high-growth environment, navigating ambiguity and complexity to make high-quality decisions.
- Strong strategic and product thinking, with a demonstrated ability to set and execute on a multi-year vision to deliver quantifiable business impact.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Customer obsession, with the ability to articulate and represent the customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome that benefits our customers.
- Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate effectively with senior, cross-functional partners.
- A genuine enjoyment of learning and diving into the nuts and bolts of how things work - in this role, you’ll learn lots about product pricing and management, currency conversion, inter-company flows, finance and accounting, and many more topics.