Strategic Business Performance, Central Strategy & Operations

Greensboro NC News; Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco (IL, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe seeks a senior product strategist-operator to join the Strategic Business Performance team. You will own the in-year metrics, synthesize signals, and lead cross-functional interventions to move the business forward.

You will translate corporate theses into actionable workstreams with product, risk, and marketing partners, preparing leadership-ready analyses. You will collaborate with Corporate Strategy and Product teams to bridge external market forces with internal execution, influencing

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 with P&L ownership.
• Curious about business models, signals, trends and customer usage patterns to uncover insights.
• Proven track record of driving business growth through analytical insights and execution.
• Apply AI to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency with rigor.
• Strong product sense and understanding of software product architecture and scaling.
• Experience navigating ambiguous cross-functional problems and senior stakeholders.
• Fintech experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the signal by defining and maintaining in-year metrics and a high-signal morning read.
• Lead surge projects to diagnose and unblock critical goals at risk.
• Translate long-horizon theses into in-year operational reality across product, risk, and marketing.
• Prepare CEO/COO-level materials translating signals into structured diagnoses.
• Pressure-test assumptions with Corporate Strategy and Product teams.

Skills

Product analytics

Data analytics

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

AI-assisted decision-making

Business growth analytics

Problem solving in high-stakes

Leadership with CXOs

Fintech/finance familiarity

SQL

Python

R

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

# Strategic Business Performance, Central Strategy & OperationsStripeUS-Chicago, US-Remote, US-Seattle, US-San Francisco Pay not disclosed Posted 1w agoFull-TimeRemoteSource: greenhouse:stripe · External Apply## About this jobWho we areAbout StripeStripe 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 teamStripe 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 doIn 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 structuredworkstreams.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 gaps between our external market forces and our internal execution.Who you areWe're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.Minimum requirements12+ years of experience in product/data analytics within product organizations or strategic business performance teams at high-growth tech companiesExperience in Product Strategy, Product Management, or GM-style roles where you owned a P&L or a specificbusiness outcomeDeeply curious about business models and data, probing into signals, understanding trends and customer usage patterns to uncover novel insightsA proven track record of directly driving business growth through analytical insights and executionApply 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 qualityStrong product sense and the ability to understand the technical mechanics of how software products are built and scaledExperience navigating ambiguous, cross-functional problems and leading high-stakes interventions with senior stakeholdersPrior experience with fintech products or complex financial systems is a plus, but not requiredExperience facilitating senior leadership/ stakeholder meetings to drive meaningful conversations regarding Stripe’s business performancePreferred qualificationsPayments ecosystem, or experience in finance or fintech is a plusAbility to build trust and partner with senior leaders and CXOsTechnical proficiency in SQL / Python / R and data analysis; ability to self-serve and perform independent deep-dives into complex datasetsExperience driving creative solutions with and effectively informing the roadmap of cross-functional teamsAbility to understand the implications of Stripe ships such as product features, policy changes, and marketing outreach on the user experience and resulting support experience