Policy Development & Strategy

Stripe

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About The Position

Stripe is seeking a Policy Development & Strategy professional to lead the design, coordination, and execution of its cross-functional working group model. This role will serve as the connective tissue between Policy and product/business teams, driving alignment between policy priorities and business strategy. It requires a blend of policy expertise and organizational skills to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams. The ideal candidate will be comfortable engaging with both product engineers and senior policy leaders, translating policy risk into business opportunity. A passion for policy and business, sharp analytical instincts, and a drive to build are essential.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in policy, regulatory affairs, government relations, or a related field, with significant exposure to payments and/or digital assets.
• Strong knowledge of the payments ecosystem (core infrastructure, rails, bank-fintech partnerships), stablecoins and digital assets (including GENIUS Act, MiCA, and other applicable frameworks), financial crimes and risk policy (AML/BSA, KYC, sanctions).
• Familiarity with emerging AI and agentic commerce policy issues.
• 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.

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