<h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>Stripe Managed Payments is a new horizontal layer across Stripe's platform that enables businesses to delegate substantial operational complexity to Stripe. In this model, Stripe serves as the merchant of record, providing an all-in-one solution for software and digital-goods businesses that takes on global tax compliance and liability, handles fraud and disputes, delivers a conversion-optimized checkout experience, and owns post-sale consumer support.</p> <p>We recently launched our general availability to significant market demand. The product is still at an early and exciting stage: the foundations are working, and the opportunity ahead is enormous. We're a relatively small, high-context team with outsized scope-Managed Payments touches Checkout, Payment Links, Billing, Tax, Connect, support, operations, and more.</p> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <p>As an Engineering Manager for Managed Payments, you will lead a highly motivated team building one of Stripe's most promising new product areas. This is a particularly high-leverage role: a significant part of the job is helping the team move quickly while raising the bar on execution, prioritization, communication, and cross-org coordination.</p> <p>You'll partner closely with product and design to shape the long-term roadmap, and will drive alignment across a wide range of partner teams. Success here requires strong engineering leadership, but also sharp judgment about product, operations, and how to get many stakeholders moving in the same direction.</p> <h4><strong>Near-term priorities include:</strong></h4> <ul> <li><strong>Self-serve growth and funnel optimization</strong> - Deepening integration with onboarding flows to maximize eligible user conversion and reduce funnel leakage</li> <li><strong>Local acquiring</strong> - Building a network of local Managed Payments entities to route traffic dynamically, enabling locally acquired transactions globally and unlocking meaningful auth, cost, fraud, and compliance benefits</li> <li><strong>Advanced billing</strong> - Supporting complex pricing strategies (token-based billing, upgrades/downgrades, async invoicing) to serve the needs of AI-native and high-growth businesses</li> <li><strong>Flexible checkout composition</strong> - Building more modular, customizable checkout components in partnership with our OCS teams, so users can compose their ideal Managed Payments checkout experience</li> <li><strong>Global funds management</strong> - Evolving how Managed Payments balances and moves funds globally, partnering with our Money Movement infrastructure teams to support international expansion</li> <li><strong>Ongoing quality and growth</strong> - Improving onboarding clarity, expanding support for local payment methods, enabling seamless migrations to and from SMP, and raising quality across disputes flows, tax management, and more</li> </ul> <p>Looking further ahead, the roadmap includes expanding to support Connect platforms, enabling the product globally, and exploring emerging payment rails. You'll play a central role in defining what comes next.</p> <h3><strong>Who you are</strong></h3> <p>We're looking for someone with a demonstrated track record as an Engineering Manager who operates autonomously and has delivered impact across multiple teams or product areas. Specifically, you:</p> <ul> <li>Have led engineering teams and cross-functional projects spanning multiple organizations, and have driven results in complex, ambiguous environments</li> <li>Operate with a high degree of autonomy - you set direction, identify gaps, and move the work forward without waiting to be told</li> <li>Bring strong domain expertise: you are technically credible, stay close to your team's systems and decisions, and can hold a high bar for both product quality and engineering craft</li> <li>Know how to hire, coach, and grow strong engineers - you are an active, hands-on contributor to building your team and treat recruiting as a core part of the job</li> <li>Have strong product and operational judgment - you're comfortable working at the boundary of product, platform, and operations, and can make high-quality decisions with imperfect information</li> <li>Foster a high-velocity, high-trust environment - you drive toward clear decisions without endless debate, and earn the confidence of your team and partner teams</li> <li>Can balance speed with rigor in a space where mistakes have real user impact</li> <li>Are located in New York City, or are willing to relocate</li> </ul>