Engineering Manager of Managers, Issuing

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 Issuing empowers businesses to create and manage their own branded virtual and physical cards with ease. Our product is designed to help companies streamline expenses, enhance payment solutions, and offer tailored financial services to their users or employees. 

What you’ll do

As an engineering leader on Issuing, you’ll be leading a group of engineers to partner very closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to build and enhance the Issuing product for a large number of platforms and marketplaces who are building their ecosystems on Stripe. You’ll be a key leader to own and drive relevant success metrics, product delivery, and user happiness.

Responsibilities

• Understand the core mission and responsibilities of your organization. Set strategies and prioritizations on how to best achieve outsized impact and drive significant progress on core success metrics. 
• Work with engineers and PMs to design and build the right user experience and journey, the product offerings and features.
• Work with cross-functional partners to enable fast growth.
• Empower your team for high productivity, velocity, while delivering high quality outcomes.
• Effectively building strong relationships with other orgs and leaders, to achieve highly efficient collaborative results. Many of the hard problems need to be solved via close partnership with other organizations.
• Build and grow a healthy team with strong bench leaders.

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.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience managing and growing an organization of 30-50 engineers for 3+ years.
• Experience in managing managers and driving multiple mission-critical and highly visible efforts in parallel successfully. 
• Effectively recruited, mentored, and retained great people, who are extremely effective over the long term.
• Successfully built a team, defined its mission, set strategies, and executed its goals with high velocity and high quality.
• Experience with owning and driving core product and user metrics.
• Experience in designing and shipping user-facing product offerings.
• Experience working closely with Product Management and Design.
• The ability to thrive in a problem domain with high ambiguity, complexity, and can operate with great autonomy.
• The ability to work well across functions and organization, and are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.
• Constantly looking for ways to optimize for the best outcome.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in payments and embedded finance product domain is a nice plus but not a hard requirement.