Product Manager, Startup Products

Stripe
New York, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior product managers with founder experience who thrive in high-agency startup environments, particularly those passionate about financial infrastructure for early-stage companies.

Best fit for

  • Product-focused founders transitioning to PM roles will resonate with this position.
    — “product management or product-focused founder experience
  • Technical PMs comfortable with API products and complex systems at scale.
    — “Shipped user-facing or API products, built on complex technical systems running at scale
  • AI-enthusiasts willing to overhaul workflows for efficiency gains.
    — “An AI enthusiast and experimenter. Someone who is willing to upend their workflows for something that works 2x better

Things to consider

  • Expect to represent the product externally with VCs and accelerators.
    — “Represent Atlas externally with founders, venture capitalists, accelerators, and partners
  • Role requires hands-on problem-solving for stuck users beyond typical PM scope.
    — “Review feedback, unblock stuck users, collaborate with our support teams

How to stand out

  • Quantify impact of prior products on founder success metrics.
    — “Develop and maintain metrics to help us understand product performance
  • Showcase founder empathy through concrete examples of solving startup pain points.
    — “Deeply understand the needs of startup founders and learn how they use Atlas
  • Demonstrate technical partnership with engineering through specific collaboration examples.
    — “Drive product development in collaboration with engineering counterparts
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • deep understanding of startup founders' needs
  • drive product development
  • craft product experiences
  • maintain metrics for product performance
Typical background
6+ years of product management or product-focused founder experienceshipped user-facing or API products

Skills & requirements

Required

Product ManagementProduct StrategyCollaborationCommunicationUser Experience

Preferred

Fintech ExperienceStart-up Experience

Stack & domain

PythonCommunicationCollaborationProduct ManagementStartups

About the role

This Product Manager role at Stripe's Startup Products team involves deeply understanding the needs of early-stage founders and driving the development of products that help startups succeed, requiring a blend of strategic thinking, technical acumen, and a passion for entrepreneurship.

Original posting from Stripe

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

The Startup Products team builds Stripe Atlas and other products that help founders start and run a company, from anywhere in the world. We believe that startups are one of the most effective ways to solve the world's problems, and we want to give founders a running start — and keep them running. We help founders form their company, raise capital, execute critical legal agreements, access the internet's best tools, and automate operations while feeling ambitious, smart, and assured. Our goal is to create more startups that get to product-market fit, fast.

Our team is composed of high-agency, high-ownership product thinkers, who genuinely care about helping founders and making it easier to start and run a startup. Every person on the team is responsible for making our product the best it can be, and for ensuring our roadmap contains the highest impact ships for founders.

What you’ll do

As a product manager on the Startup Products team, you’ll gain a deep understanding of what early stage founders need to get their company off the ground, identify the most important pain points to solve, help set the product strategy, scope product features and technical infrastructure, collaborate with design, drive execution with engineering, craft product marketing, and plan for go-to-market.

Responsibilities

Deeply understand the needs of startup founders and learn how they use Atlas and other startup products.

Stay at the front of the ever changing technology landscape, ensuring we are building where founders are and with tools they want to use.

Drive product development in collaboration with engineering counterparts by setting the pace, prioritizing ruthlessly, and unblocking execution.

Craft product experiences that are both simple and powerful, with surprisingly great details.

Contribute to our product strategy and own delivery of product and business metrics.

Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders and deliver clear communication on statuses, priorities, and landed impact.

Represent Atlas externally with founders, venture capitalists, accelerators, and partners. Establish new external partnerships as needed to drive product development.

Develop and maintain metrics to help us understand product performance.

Ensure that every user has a great experience with Atlas, using any means at your disposal. Review feedback, unblock stuck users, collaborate with our support teams, and recommend and deliver product solutions to common user problems.

Who you are

We’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 requirements

6+ years of product management or product-focused founder experience.

Shipped user-facing or API products, built on complex technical systems running at scale.

An AI enthusiast and experimenter. Someone who is willing to upend their workflows for something that works 2x better.

Passion for helping founders build their businesses.

Persistence and a whatever-it-takes approach to ensure that your product is successful.

Strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of customer problems.

Adept with data and confident in how best to measure user impact.

Preferred qualifications

Founder background, or experience in a very early stage company environment.

Software engineering experience, a computer science or engineering degree, or similar technical experience.

Source: Stripe careers

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