Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure

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

The infrastructure teams provide efficient and optimized infrastructure for Stripe to build secure, reliable, and differentiated products, while enabling Stripe developers to achieve their highest potential. Stripe makes it easy for any developer to access and manage the capabilities of the financial system while maintaining the least regulatory friction. We work to enable developers to have the most productive results of their entire career from the very first days they join Stripe through years of developing new systems and products.

What you'll do

As a Technical Program Manager in the Infrastructure team, you'll play a key role within engineering and drive programs that span across Stripe in the core infrastructure of Stripe's payment systems. You're responsible for the successful definition, cross-functional strategy, planning, and execution of large-scale technical programs that help to solve complex problems and enable products and infrastructure at scale. You'll deliver outstanding results by building and implementing solutions that scale while protecting our users and serving the business.

Responsibilities

Work with teams across the organization to understand pain points in their infrastructure usage to find common ideas and work to create solutions that span multiple domains.

Define and produce high-quality written proposals, communications, and documentation.

Execute on technical programs that require deep systems and engineering-level knowledge.

Partner with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Engineers, and other Technical Program Managers to define, scope, and drive large 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 and 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 multiple engineering organizations for Infrastructure (Deve