Corporate Strategy

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

Corporate Strategy is a small, high-leverage team that develops informed positions on the biggest strategic questions facing Stripe. Whether we’re evaluating net-new opportunity areas, investigating existential threats, or finding ways to unlock value in the existing business, we approach problems with rigor, nuance, and intellectual humility.

What you’ll do

This is not your typical corporate strategy team. While we report centrally (into Stripe’s C-suite) and partner closely with leadership, we don’t run the company planning processes, and we’re not “internal consultants” who primarily take on commissioned analysis. We develop independent points of view that have real teeth: strategy that is practical and connected with the rest of the company, not recommendations from an ivory tower. We operate horizontally – not embedded within any product or functional area – and we take a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing holistic understanding of problems and deploying product management skills in addition to traditional analytical approaches.

If you’re excited by the prospect of shaping Stripe’s long-term direction, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Help Stripe decide where to deploy its resources to maximize long-term strategic value

• Tackle hard, ambiguous questions with rigor and independence, owning projects from problem definition to final recommendation

• Cut through complexity to identify opportunities and risks across Stripe’s products, customers, and markets

• Partner closely with teams across the company to influence their direction

• Evaluate whitespace business, product, and partnership opportunities in adjacent markets

• Drive strategic decisions by crisply framing a problem space, evaluating potential paths, and surfacing key tradeoffs – enabling Stripe to move quickly

• Work with Stripe’s leadership team to ensure the company is positioned to execute on its strategy in the near- and long-term

• Develop independent perspectives on forces shaping the business in the next five to ten years and the implications for Stripe's strategy

• Nurture a community of strategists across the company

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• You excel at hypothesis-driven problem solving using quantitative and qualitative approaches

• You can look at problems from novel perspectives and distill clarifying insights that connect with wide audiences

• You communicate extremely well and are able to develop compelling narratives

• You are low ego and have a proven track record for working well across a wide range of people, teams and with external partners

• You are curious about markets, competition, and how companies build durable strategies

• You have experience taking holistic ownership of problems

• You have multiple years of experience in strategy consulting, investing, or a comparable role in high-growth tech companies

• You have a unique perspective or experience that will complement the existing team

• You rolled your eyes just a little bit when you heard “corporate strategy”

Preferred qualifications

• Technical background or affinity (CS, engineering, etc.)

• Experience as a PM, GM or a founder

• Knowledge of the payments or fintech industry