Startup Product Strategy & Ops Leader

Stripe; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Strategy & Operations partner on the Startup Products team to determine where we should play and what we should build for founders. You’ll combine user insight, market context, product judgment, and rigorous analysis to develop strategy, shape product roadmaps, and turn our highest-potential ideas into clear, executable plans.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, and other teams across Stripe to develop your recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategy and operations or product strategy
• Experience partnering with product, engineering, and design
• Strong product sense and user empathy
• Structured problem solving for ambiguous questions
• Ability to combine qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Willingness to move between strategy and hands-on execution
• Interest in helping founders start and grow their businesses

Responsibilities

• Develop product and business strategy for Stripe startup products, structuring ambiguous questions and making clear recommendations.
• Translate strategy into execution with goals, workstreams, and cadences, and by helping cross-functional teams resolve tradeoffs and unblock progress.
• Build a deep understanding of founders through direct conversations, qualitative research, product data, and support conversations.
• Translate founder needs, market developments, and competitive dynamics into product opportunities, roadmap recommendations, and prioritization frameworks.
• Partner with product, engineering, and design to unblock the development of new products and features from early problem definition through scope, launch, and iteration.
• Develop business cases and opportunity assessments for new bets, including market sizing.
• Lead targeted strategic projects, including 0-1 explorations, product or market deep dives, and initiatives that span multiple teams.
• Communicate recommendations, decisions, progress, and results clearly to team and Stripe leadership, and build alignment through influence rather than authority.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Product strategy

Data-driven decision making

User research

Communication

Leadership

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Strategy & Operations partner on the Startup Products team to determine where we should play and what we should build for founders. You’ll combine user insight, market context, product judgment, and rigorous analysis to develop strategy, shape product roadmaps, and turn our highest-potential ideas into clear, executable plans.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, and other teams across Stripe to develop your recommendations.