Strategic Startup Partnerships & Acceleration Lead

Monograph; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus

401(k)

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a strategic partnerships leader to oversee accelerator collaborations, including YC, and to evangelize Stripe's fintech platform to founders and investors. You’ll build programs, scale initiatives, and serve as a primary ambassador within the startup ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate across teams, harness data to demonstrate impact, and drive initiatives that create delightful experiences for early-stage founders and partners in the Stripe network.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in the startup ecosystem with startup or investing experience.
• Experienced business or technical founder with a passion for helping other founders.
• Strong understanding of the startup ecosystem, founder empathy, and ability to build strong partnerships, particularly within the Y Combinator community
• A user-first mindset, anything less than perfect is unacceptable to you.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to get new programming off the ground.
• You're a builder by nature and are excited to launch new initiatives within Stripe that extend surprisingly delightful experiences to best in class founders.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Hunger and motivation to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
• Humility, and who takes initiative with a 'no task is too small' attitude.

Responsibilities

• Oversee our YC Combinator and other accelerator partnerships
• Work across the business to ensure every founder's experience of Stripe is surprisingly delightful
• Build out and oversee the execution of key programs
• Spin up new initiatives that add continuous value to the YC ecosystem
• Serve as a point of escalation for partners and top startups to grow Stripe’s brand within the YC ecosystem
• Maintain a product feedback loop to internal teams to ensure we continue to build for the highest potential businesses
• Work cross functionally with key internal stakeholders to advance strategic Stripe initiatives for startup founders
• Collate startup ecosystem insights and prepare weekly / quarterly updates detailing business progress, market trends, and product feedback gathered from startup engagement
• Represent Stripe in the startup ecosystem and take up speaking opportunities at key startup events that bolster Stripe as the best platform for founders to start and scale
• Leverage your data prowess (SQL, etc) to build out tools that enable us to better serve founders and demonstrate impact
• Interest and demonstrated ability to cultivate deep, trust-based partnerships with some of the most consequential venture capitalists

Skills

Startup ecosystem

Partnership building

Public speaking

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Stripe is seeking a strategic partnerships leader to oversee accelerator collaborations, including YC, and to evangelize Stripe's fintech platform to founders and investors. You’ll build programs, scale initiatives, and serve as a primary ambassador within the startup ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate across teams, harness data to demonstrate impact, and drive initiatives that create delightful experiences for early-stage founders and partners in the Stripe network.