Strategy & Operations, Embedded Finance

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’s Embedded Finance team enables users to build and launch successful card programs (Issuing), provide access to fast, flexible financing (Capital), and offer business accounts to users on their platform (Treasury).

As part of the Embedded Finance organization, the Strategy & Operations (S&O) team works cross functionally within our group and across Stripe to drive and enable the growth of the business. We lead mission critical, cross-functional efforts, deliver objective analysis and insights, incubate new roles, and execute on strategic initiatives. You may dig into winning new market segments, design new business systems and processes to scale our group, help us build and launch new products, or unlock new revenue opportunities. Whatever it is, we work on what will move the needle most for Stripe.

What you’ll do

• Build thought leadership on the future state of Embedded Finance, while developing and influencing Stripe’s overall strategy. 
• Tackle hard, ambiguous questions with rigor and independence, owning projects from problem definition to final recommendation.
• Evaluate white space business, product, and partnership opportunities.
• Lead new or early stage initiatives or products, often playing the role of multiple functions simultaneously in order to reach success.
• Help shape the product roadmap for the Embedded Finance business through robust gathering of competitive intelligence and user insights.
• Advise Product, Engineering, GTM & cross-functional leadership teams on where resources should be deployed to maximize long-term strategic value.
• Partner with Finance to drive planning processes, including investment decisions, strategy updates, operational plans, and OKRs.
• Maintain a pulse on the financial health of the Embedded business, highlighting key metrics and trends and developing action plans to drive improvements.

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

• Strategic thinker, with 8+ years of work experience and a consistent track record of excellence. 
• Excel at hypothesis-driven problem solving, bringing structure to quantitative and qualitative insights, and owning development of solutions.
• Experience getting deep into the data, thinking from first principles, and delivering the best results.
• Ability to understand complex, technical products and articulate their value to non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple functional stakeholders.
• Passion for technology and an understanding of software and business technology markets, trends, and dynamics.
• Experience in strategy consulting, and/or corporate strategy in high growth tech companies
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• A “can do” attitude, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in a fintech or payments-focused technology company.
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