Strategic Business Performance, Central Strategy & Operations

EngineersOfAI; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a senior product strategist-operator to join the Strategic Business Performance (SBP) team. You will own the metrics that matter, drive cross-functional initiatives, and translate strategic theses into actionable in-year plans.

You will produce leadership-ready analyses and work to align external market dynamics with Stripe's internal execution. The role requires deep analytical rigor, the ability to manage ambiguity, and a track record of improving business outcomes through

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in product/data analytics within product organizations or strategic business performance teams at high-growth tech companies.
• Experience in Product Strategy, Product Management, or GM-style roles where you owned a P&L or a specific business outcome.
• Deeply curious about business models and data, probing into signals, trends and usage patterns to uncover insights.
• Proven track record of directly driving business growth through analytical insights and execution.
• Apply AI to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency, knowing when and how to use the right AI tools.
• Strong product sense and understanding of how software products are built and scaled.
• Experience navigating ambiguous, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the Signals: define and maintain metrics that matter for in-year performance and create a morning-read that drives action.
• Lead surge projects to diagnose and unblock critical goals at risk and push trajectory changes.
• Bridge Product & Strategy: translate long-horizon theses into in-year operational reality and decompose opportunities.
• Synthesize for Leadership: prepare CEO/COO-level materials translating signals into actionable diagnoses.
• Pressure-test assumptions with Corporate Strategy and Product teams to align external forces with internal execution.

Skills

Product analytics

Data analytics

P&L ownership

AI in decision-making

Product strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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

Stripe is looking for a senior product strategist-operator to join the Strategic Business Performance (SBP) team. SBP is the "connective tissue" of Stripe. You will have a front-row seat to how the company operates and a direct hand in ensuring we hit our most important goals. If you are a technical strategist who loves to move fast and fix high-stakes problems, we’d love to hear from you.

SBP is a small, high-leverage group within Central Strategy & Operations at Stripe. Our mission is to create strategic clarity around Stripe's performance. We work with partner teams to report on the business; dive into it to support and pressure-test our strategy, driving change wherever we find soft spots and enabling the success of other teams.

We are looking for someone who connects across data, financials and product & business strategy and can unearth a signal in the noise and either fix the problem directly or convene the right people to fix it fast.

What you'll do

In this role, you will work cross-functionally within our group and across Stripe's technical and user-facing teams to solve problems and design workflows that benefit our users. Specifically:

• Own the "Signal": You will define and maintain the metrics that actually matter for in-year performance. You'll develop a "morning read" discipline—a curated, high-signal view of the business that drives immediate action,
  moving far beyond standard dashboarding.
• Deep-Dive Interventions: You will lead "surge" projects to diagnose and unblock critical goals at risk. You aren't just identifying problems; you are staying in the arena until the trajectory has measurably changed.
• Bridge Product & Strategy: You will translate long-horizon corporate theses into in-year operational reality. You'll take ambiguous opportunities that cut across product, risk, and marketing and decompose them into structured
  workstreams.
• Synthesize for Leadership: You'll think ahead of our executive team, preparing CEO/COO-level materials that translate unstructured signals into structured diagnoses they can act on.
• Pressure-test our Assumptions: You'll work closely with Corporate Strategy and Product teams to identify gapsbetween our external market forces and our internal execution.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product/data analytics within product organizations or strategic business performanceteams at high-growth tech companies
• Experience in Product Strategy, Product Management, or GM-style roles where you owned a P&L or a specific
  business outcome
• Deeply curious about business models and data, probing into signals, understanding trends and customer usage patterns to uncover novel insights
• A proven track record of directly driving business growth through analytical insights and execution
• Apply AI to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency, know when and how to use the right AI tools to move faster without sacrificing rigor or quality
• Strong product sense and the ability to understand the technical mechanics of how software products are built and scaled
• Experience navigating ambiguous, cross-functional pro