Strategy & Business Performance, Central S&O

Stripe•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Stripe is seeking a senior product strategist-operator to join the Strategy & Business Performance (SBP) team. This team acts as the connective tissue of Stripe, providing a direct hand in ensuring the company meets its most important goals. The role is ideal for a technical strategist who thrives on solving high-stakes problems quickly. SBP is a small, high-leverage group within Central S&O, focused on creating strategic clarity around Stripe’s performance. They work with partner teams to report on the business, support and pressure-test strategy, drive change, and enable the success of other teams. The ideal candidate will connect data, financials, and product/business strategy, identify key signals within noise, and either resolve issues directly or mobilize the right people to address them swiftly.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in product/data analytics within product organizations or strategic business performance teams at high-growth tech companies.
Experience in Product Strategy, Product Management, or GM-style roles where you owned a P&L or a specific business outcome.
Deeply curious about business models and data, probing into signals, understanding trends and customer usage patterns to uncover novel insights.
A proven track record of directly driving business growth through analytical insights and execution.
Ability to apply AI to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency, knowing when and how to use the right AI tools to move faster without sacrificing rigor or quality.
Strong product sense and the ability to understand the technical mechanics of how software products are built and scaled.
Experience navigating ambiguous, cross-functional problems and leading high-stakes interventions with senior stakeholders.
Experience facilitating senior leadership/ stakeholder meetings to drive meaningful conversations regarding Stripe’s business performance.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with fintech products or complex financial systems.
Payments ecosystem, or experience in finance or fintech.
Ability to build trust and partner with senior leaders and CXOs.
Technical proficiency in SQL / Python / R and data analysis; ability to self-serve and perform independent deep-dives into complex datasets.
Experience driving creative solutions with and effectively informing the roadmap of cross-functional teams.
Ability to understand the implications of Stripe ships such as product features, policy changes, and marketing outreach on the user experience and resulting support experience.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain key metrics for in-year performance.
Develop a 'morning read' discipline for a curated, high-signal view of the business that drives immediate action.
Lead 'surge' projects to diagnose and unblock critical goals that are at risk, staying involved until the trajectory has measurably changed.
Translate long-horizon corporate theses into in-year operational reality.
Decompose ambiguous opportunities across product, risk, and marketing into structured workstreams.
Prepare CEO/COO-level materials that translate unstructured signals into structured diagnoses for leadership action.
Work closely with Corporate Strategy and Product teams to identify gaps between external market forces and internal execution.
Solve problems and design workflows that benefit users by working cross-functionally across Stripe’s technical and user-facing teams.

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