Policy Development & Strategy

Stripe

2d

About The Position

The Policy team at Stripe works to understand and shape the regulatory and political environment in which Stripe operates. This involves advising on product and business strategy, developing Stripe's policy positions, and engaging with policymakers and regulators globally. The Policy Development & Strategy team is central to this effort, bridging the Policy team with Stripe's product and business units to ensure a coordinated and proactive policy agenda. This specific role focuses on leading the design, coordination, and execution of a cross-functional working group model to formalize and streamline coordination between Policy and product/business teams. The individual will act as the key link, driving alignment between policy priorities and business strategy across the company. It's a high-visibility, high-impact role requiring comfort interacting with both product engineers and senior policy leaders, and the ability to translate between policy risk and business opportunity effectively. The ideal candidate will have expertise in payments policy and strong organizational skills to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams at scale. A passion for both policy and business, sharp analytical skills, curiosity about products and markets, and a drive to build new initiatives are essential.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in policy, regulatory affairs, government relations, or a related field.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams — building trust across teams with competing priorities, setting strategic agendas, facilitating executive-level forums, and holding stakeholders accountable to outcomes.
• Ability to synthesize regulatory developments into clear, actionable implications for product and business strategy, with experience developing policy positions and advocacy strategies and a track record of producing crisp policy briefs and executive communications.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple forums and workstreams simultaneously; a self-starter who builds structure in ambiguous environments and maintains strong knowledge management and cross-functional documentation practices.
• Genuinely excited to understand how products work and how policy creates or removes business value — a resourceful, fast-moving doer who is as comfortable building from scratch as advising senior leaders, and motivated by impact at every level.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in financial services, payments and/or digital assets.
• Knowledge of the payments ecosystem (core infrastructure, rails, bank-fintech partnerships), stablecoins and digital assets, financial crimes and risk policy, a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the operating model connecting Stripe's Policy team to its product and business counterparts — operationalizing a strategic engagement agenda through structured forums, clear DRIs, and agendas spanning product developments, policy horizon scanning, issue position formation, and advocacy strategy.
• Stay current on Stripe's product portfolio and roadmap across payments, stablecoins, financial services, and AI — and on the regulatory developments shaping each area — while building direct relationships with product and business counterparts to understand where policy intersects with opportunity or risk.
• Partner with Policy leadership, Government Relations leads, and subject matter experts to develop issue positions, maintain living product and issue briefs, and keep the full Policy team informed, aligned, and able to move quickly.
• Translate complex policy and product issues into clear, compelling materials — including issue briefs, talking points, policy memos, and executive communications — and develop proactive advocacy positions and campaigns that ensure Stripe's engagement with policymakers, regulators, and industry bodies is grounded in accurate product understanding and aligned with business strategy.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across Product, Business, Legal, and Finance — spanning core payments, financial partnerships, treasury, Stripe Crypto, Bridge, and beyond — serving as a consistent point of contact for business-side partners, navigating competing priorities, and ensuring policy considerations are surfaced early in product and business decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed