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About The Position

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering and/or technical program management experience.
• Experience with developer products or open source projects.
• Experience in distributed systems, software libraries/frameworks, and service oriented architectures.
• Excellent analytical skills; you digest complex information, can distill it and make recommendations and proposals.
• You have a track record of providing program management during all phases of software development from kick-off to launch, demonstrating critical thinking, challenging the norms and thought leadership.
• You have very strong written and verbal communication skills, building strong relationships with stakeholders, teams and senior leaders around the organization.
• You can drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions and bring a wealth of experience, opinions, proposals and best practices.
• Experience operating autonomously and rapidly and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions, with stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones.

Nice To Haves

• You are comfortable working in a fast changing environment as the AI tool chain continues to evolve
• Experience in core infrastructure such as database, cloud compute, networking, and services.
• You are flexible in your approach to TPM and adapt to what your customers need
• Background in technical program management specifically working in software infrastructure
• You are comfortable working with geographically distributed teams
• You are empathetic to customer needs but visionary enough to not just deliver a faster horse
• You are excited about collaborating with teammates across Stripe’s organization

Responsibilities

• Working with teams across the organization to understand pain points in their infrastructure usage to find common ideas and work to create solutions which span multiple domains
• Define and produce high quality written proposals, communications and documentation.
• Help define the frameworks, async platforms, and tooling used to write and operate all Stripe products
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Engineers and other Technical Program Managers to define, scope and drive large migration programs to conclusion.
• Play a key part in shaping the technical design, predicting technical roadblocks by collaborating with engineers, and identifying trade-offs.
• Develop, implement, and iterate on program management techniques, frameworks, and KPIs to achieve goals with well defined success criteria.
• Elevate the execution muscle of engineering teams around you. Train them to be better at delivery where needed.
• Help influence peers / stakeholders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity
• Leverage data and acquired knowledge to drive strategic decisions at an engineering leadership level.
• Create widely circulated plans, driving consistency, clarity and building alignment across teams.
• Operationalize and execute critical cross functional programs spanning Stripe engineering organizations