Startup Products Strategy & Operations Lead

Stripe, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Strategy & Operations partner for the Startup Products team to guide where we play and what we build for founders. You’ll fuse user insight, market context, product judgment, and rigorous analysis to shape roadmaps and turn ideas into executable plans with cross-functional collaboration.

You’ll work with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, and other teams to develop and refine recommendations and drive high-impact outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategy and operations, product strategy, or related roles at tech companies.
• Experience partnering with product, engineering, and design to shape decisions.
• Strong product sense and user empathy to translate problems into opportunities.
• Excellent structured problem-solving and ability to clarify ambiguity.
• Ability to combine qualitative and quantitative evidence to inform decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, influencing without authority.
• High agency and willingness to move between strategy and execution.
• Passion for helping founders start and grow their businesses.

Responsibilities

• Develop product and business strategy for Atlas and other startup products by structuring ambiguous questions, synthesizing evidence, and making clear recommendations.
• Turn strategy into execution by defining goals, workstreams, decision points, and operating cadences.
• 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 opportunities and roadmaps.
• Partner with product, engineering, and design to unblock development from problem definition to launch.
• Develop business cases and opportunity assessments for new bets, including market sizing.
• Lead targeted strategic projects spanning multiple teams.
• Communicate recommendations clearly to leadership and build alignment through influence.

Skills

Strategy & operations

Product strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

SQL

Excel

A/B testing

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Strategy & Operations partner for the Startup Products team to guide where we play and what we build for founders. You’ll fuse user insight, market context, product judgment, and rigorous analysis to shape roadmaps and turn ideas into executable plans with cross-functional collaboration.

You’ll work with product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, and other teams to develop and refine recommendations and drive high-impact outcomes.