Staff Product Manager, Issuing

About the job

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 Stripe Issuing team enables users–from the most promising startups and largest platforms in the world to Stripe itself—to build and launch successful card programs and financial features into their product using powerful programmatic APIs and intuitive UIs. The team creates the infrastructure, user facing experiences, and partner integrations needed to manage the lifecycle of a card and enable efficient money movement. This is a great opportunity to help build one of Stripe’s fastest growing businesses. Our top users span fintechs to large enterprises & cover a range of verticals including Buy Now Pay Later, vertical SaaS platforms, on-demand marketplaces, expense management platforms, fleet, travel & more across the world. What you’ll do As EMEA Staff Product Manager for Stripe Issuing, you will lead our product development efforts for building the best-in-class card issuance systems, including designing user-facing APIs and interfaces and working directly with top global users in building and growing their card programs in EMEA. This is a highly complex and challenging role that will require you to deeply understand user needs and collaborate across internal and partner teams to build and launch a seamless product experience at scale. We’re looking for a strong Staff Product Manager that can run Stripe Issuing in EMEA like a standalone business, with expertise in partnering with go-to-market teams to scale our EMEA Issuing business. This Staff Product Manager will spend significant time with users to deeply understand their needs and experiences, Stripe leadership and go-to-market teams to build the EMEA Issuing strategy and roadmap, and cross-functional internal stakeholders to build compliant and scalable products. Responsibilities • Lead our Stripe Issuing effort in UK and Europe • Shape the direction and product strategy for helping users manage their card programs • Partner with engineering to bring new Stripe Issuing product solutions to the UK and European markets • Collaborate with other Stripe teams (design, legal, risk, compliance, engineering, etc.) early in the product development lifecycle and jointly shape product plans that lead with delightful and helpful user experiences • Own the roadmap and go-to-market, with product marketing, of EMEA Stripe Issuing • Act as the voice of the user in product and API designs, gathering direct feedback from customers • Ensure we’re building in a scalable, performant way Who you are We're looking for someone who: • Brings 8+ years of experience in a product role • Has domain knowledge in financial products, particularly card issuing, financial systems, and card networks • Strong focus on scaling products in close collaboration with go-to-market teams • Has experience building platform and/or API products • Has strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of customer problems • Can put themselves in the shoes of their users and be a steward of crafting great experiences