Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• A track record of recruiting, developing, and building great engineering teams.
• The ability to work effectively across functions, think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
• Technical acumen to partner with staff engineers on architecture and technical strategy.
• Experience creating a healthy and inclusive work environment that is both challenging and supportive.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building platforms, developer products, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience applying AI to software development, engineering workflows, or product delivery, with strong judgment about where it creates durable value.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for leadership, users, and company-wide audiences.
• A strong quantitative and analytical background.
• Experience leading fully remote or distributed teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Set the vision and roadmap for platform capabilities that help LPM teams build, integrate, and operate payment methods at scale.
• Lead engineers in designing and delivering reliable, self-service foundations that simplify complex integrations and speed up launches.
• Build an AI-first engineering organization: develop the platform hooks and working practices that enable agentic development and help teams use AI to improve execution and product-engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with customers, engineering, product, partnerships, legal, operations, and other stakeholders to align priorities and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Drive clear technical and architectural decisions with staff engineers, balancing reliability, extensibility, velocity, and regional payments complexity.
• Lead and improve the team’s operating processes so it can execute effectively and engage well with the rest of Stripe.
• Recruit, develop, and retain great engineers; support their growth and help build a challenging, supportive, and inclusive team culture.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.

Perks and Benefits

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.