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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 At its core, Stripe is a treasury company, and the Treasury Finance team (TFIN) is key to building the Global Payments and Treasury Network (GPTN). Within TFIN, the FX team collaborates closely with product, engineering, sales, and finance teams to manage Stripe’s Corporate and User related FX risk. This includes creating pricing models to keep pace with product expansion and developing hedging strategies to mitigate the risks to Stripe’s profitability. What you’ll do Stripe supports global commerce across 135+ currencies including digital assets.As a result, Stripe needs to build and maintain platform systems capable of pricing, estimating and hedging the resulting FX exposures. Grounded in an understanding of FX market conventions and dynamics, you will partner with Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Finance to maintain operational rigor today while shaping long-term pricing and hedging strategies. Responsibilities Monitor FX risks, execute trades , reconcile position, and attribute costs Build automated risk monitors, alerting tools, and analytical models using SQL and quantitative coding to enable observability and minimize operational toil Collaborate with Product and Engineering to guide the design and scaling of core FX infrastructure, trade execution flows, and liquidity provider integrations Develop risk-based FX pricing methodologies across products and currency pairs, factoring in volatility, transaction costs

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 Billing Configuration team enables extensibility of all Billing concepts and owns the core infrastructure needed to manage configuration changes over time and custom billing logic use cases. What you'll do As the engineering manager for Billing Configuration, you’ll own the operational and technical direction of the platforms that let Stripe users and internal teams model, customize, and evolve how billing works. You’ll lead the team building the foundational configuration layer for Stripe Billing, enabling flexible products, pricing, eligibility, entitlements, and billing behavior. This team enables complex custom use cases and configuration changes over time. You’ll shape the team as it expands to support increasingly sophisticated use cases, working closely with internal and external customers to build reliable, extensible systems that make Stripe Billing adaptable to the real world. Responsibilities Lead a team responsible for the core architecture needed to enable billing configuration complexity and extensibility Own the technical strategy and roadmap for billing configuration Drive operational excellence across billing infrastructure systems Hire and develop engineers as the team expands into new scope Partner with stakeholders across organizations to deliver billing solutions Work backwards from internal and external customer needs to define priorities and scope Define and uphold engineering standards across a team owning busines

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 Stripe is building tools to help our users create and scale their businesses, and grow the GDP of the internet. The Workforce Management team at Stripe helps manage our growing support operations network of both internal and external resources by consulting on operational change initiatives, modeling support requirements, and managing workload and resource allocations for an optimal user experience. What you’ll do As a Strategic Capacity Planning Specialist, you will play a key role in designing and maintaining capacity planning models for one of our key user support or risk verticals, with a focus on user experience, budget, utilization, and speed of answer to our users' queries. You will operate in a fast-paced and energizing environment surrounded by top talent, where resilience and openness to feedback will be key to success. Responsibilities Develop and maintain capacity planning models to forecast resource requirements. Leverage forecasting techniques to analyze historical data and market trends, predicting future capacity needs and enabling informed planning decisions. Evaluate potential risks and opportunities regarding model inputs to inform planning decisions. Monitor performance against planned capacity levels and adjust plans as needed, while holding stakeholders accountable for the accuracy of plan inputs. Collaborate with the vendor delivery team and stakeholders to gather information and align planning efforts with Stripe'

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 At Stripe, our Bengaluru office is a vibrant hub at the forefront of our mission to reshape the financial landscape for businesses worldwide. Our team prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and excellence. As a member of the Bangalore team, you'll be part of a mission-driven community dedicated to enhancing the global economy and increasing the GDP of the internet. We strive for excellence by creating with craft and beauty, while having fun and celebrating our successes together. We cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusivity and support where every team member’s voice matters. Our commitment shines through as we handle over a million support cases each year, empowering our users not just to solve problems but to achieve their goals. What you’ll do We’re hiring a hands-on Verification Risk Ops Associate to support large-user special handling, migrations, and ORR activities. This person will review KYC/KYB docs, run data queries and reports, manage queues and routing, troubleshoot with users, and lead large-scale migrations and grace-period deployments. Responsibilities Plan, lead and execute large-user migrations end-to-end: coordinate technical steps, apply migration-based grace periods (AMP), monitor progress, resolve blockers, and ensure smooth onboarding at scale. Run and interpret Hubble/SQL queries and build simple dashboards to track migration status, rejection rates/types, SLAs, and backlogs; use data to set priorities and

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 Billing Configuration team enables extensibility of all Billing concepts and owns the core infrastructure needed to manage configuration changes over time and custom billing logic use cases. What you'll do As the engineering manager for Billing Configuration, you’ll own the operational and technical direction of the platforms that let Stripe users and internal teams model, customize, and evolve how billing works. You’ll lead the team building the foundational configuration layer for Stripe Billing, enabling flexible products, pricing, eligibility, entitlements, and billing behavior. This team enables complex custom use cases and configuration changes over time. You’ll shape the team as it expands to support increasingly sophisticated use cases, working closely with internal and external customers to build reliable, extensible systems that make Stripe Billing adaptable to the real world. Responsibilities Lead a team responsible for the core architecture needed to enable billing configuration complexity and extensibility Own the technical strategy and roadmap for billing configuration Drive operational excellence across billing infrastructure systems Hire and develop engineers as the team expands into new scope Partner with stakeholders across organizations to deliver billing solutions Work backwards from internal and external customer needs to define priorities and scope Define and uphold engineering standards across a team owning busines

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 Payment Intelligence is comprised of multiple product teams building AI-first solutions to some of our customers’ biggest challenges, including fraud/abuse ( Radar ), payment optimizations ( AuthBoost ), Disputes, Authentication, and merchant analytics. We’re a mix of machine engineering engineers and full-stack software engineers impacting ~every Stripe transaction, creating revenue opportunities for Stripe and our customers, and helping protect the broader ecosystem. We have the benefit and privilege of working on cutting edge technologies with incredible scale and reach while also working directly with our merchants every day to build the right products for their needs. What you'll do As a Staff Engineer on Payment Intelligence, you’ll work across our product portfolio to ensure we’re building in a consistent, efficient, and effective manner. Experience with large, distributed systems on the critical path will help candidates succeed, as will comfort working across the stack and interacting with ML teams and models. Responsibilities Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, with a focus on quality and performance Champion a quality-first engineering culture - establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality code at scale Partner with some of Stripe’s largest merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence Partner cross-functionally

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 Storage Abstractions (STAX) team builds the software layer through which Stripe services access stored data. We own the database SDKs that hundreds of Ruby and Java services use to read and write data safely, reliably, and efficiently without needing to understand the underlying database, routing, or operational complexity. Our work creates leverage across Stripe: by providing stable interfaces and safeguards at the storage layer, we help teams build products with confidence while enabling Stripe’s data architecture to evolve. Alongside engineers, we are designing for AI agents as customers of this foundation, making storage capabilities discoverable, interoperable, and safe to use across languages and storage backends. What you’ll do As a Staff Software Engineer on STAX, you will set technical direction and lead multi-year initiatives at the intersection of developer infrastructure, data access, and AI. You will work hands-on with engineers across Stripe to make storage access simpler, safer, and more interoperable, while helping product and infrastructure teams evolve their systems without fleet-wide migrations. You will help turn Stripe’s AI strategy into practical developer infrastructure by treating AI agents as customers of the storage layer. This is an opportunity to build frameworks and interfaces that make complex storage operations discoverable, interoperable, and safe for both human developers and agentic workflows, while rais

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 Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) organization at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast-growing, digital-native companies. Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn. What you'll do As an engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently. You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship code every day. In this cross-functional role, you'll collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build business-critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world. Responsibilities Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come Deliver value through a strong collaborative, user-first approach with stakeholders and customers Mentor engineers to help them grow Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack Who you are We're looking for someone who m

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 Global GTM Operations team is responsible for overall productivity and effectiveness of the sales organization, partnering closely with the sales team and teams across Stripe to drive initiatives. Within the Sales Strategy and Operations team, the Global Product Sales Strategy and Operations team is aligned to each of Stripe’s Product Pillars (Revenue Suite, Money Management and Payments) and are heavily focused on partnering with both GTM and Product to drive the rhythm of business, strategic initiatives, bi-annual planning and execution. We advance the sales policies, processes and tools to drive revenue and growth. Within Stripe, the goal of the Product sellers is to help users understand Stripe’s specialised offerings and recommend the right Stripe solutions and implementation path. This is an incredible opportunity that plays an integral role in shaping and executing GTM strategies with Sales leaders. You will partner with senior Sales leadership and the broader Sales team to drive the overall productivity and effectiveness of the mid market segment. Responsibilities include go-to-market design, resource planning, quota setting and management, sales process optimization and business analytics. You will also partner with key cross-functional stakeholders, including Finance & Strategy, Functional Sales Operations, Global Systems & Processes, and the Strategy Planning and Insights team to streamline and optimize our

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 Stripe’s Design organization builds the product and brand experiences that millions of businesses and developers rely on. We’re a cross-functional, global organization of product designers, content designers, design researchers, design systems engineers, motion designers, and design program specialists. Our mission is to make economic infrastructure simple and accessible. Design plays a central role by making complex flows understandable, crafting clear product language, and building consistent systems that scale. The Design Operations team leads Design’s business operations, runs cross-organizational programs, and builds the systems that help teams collaborate and produce high-quality work. Design Program Managers guide complex programs through the design lifecycle and apply design thinking to our operating model. They prototype and iterate on how our team works. We’re looking for a Design Program Manager to partner with the Research team. This full-time role reports to the Head of Design Operations. What you’ll do Responsibilities Lead and build programs for the Research organization. Develop and implement processes and resources that support impactful research and scale the use of user insights across Stripe. Improve our operating model and processes, including automating tasks, improving workflows, and developing repeatable methodologies. Measure the impact of these changes. Prepare researchers to use agentic workflows, including des

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. Research at Stripe Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and expand economic access globally. We design tools and infrastructure to help our users start, run, and scale an online business from anywhere in the world. We believe there are too many barriers to doing business on the internet and that opportunities are not equally distributed around the world. We also believe that building and growing a business online is a problem rooted in code, language, and design, not finance. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for an experienced UX Research Manager to join our growing UX Research team and help build, coach, and mentor a growing and highly skilled group of researchers. About UX research and the role The UX Research team is part of Stripe’s Design team. It works across brand and product initiatives to deliver products and experiences that meet user needs. Since Stripe’s main audience is people who build products, we take pride in creating user-friendly, user-focused experiences. In addition to conducting primary research, we enable other Stripes, including engineers, product managers, designers, and operations teams, to learn and apply research skills to global problems. You will help shape research as a core competency across Stripe and define how we put users first in our research. What you’ll do As a UX Research Manager, you will use your people-management and research expertise to lead a team of researchers that collaborates w

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 Solutions Architecture Team partners with our users to realize their full potential through the adoption of prescriptive solutions that drive their growth and success. We influence revenue growth across Stripe’s product portfolio, and collaborate with sales, support, product management, and Stripe’s executive team to provide the best experience to our most valued customers. What you’ll do As a member of the team, the Solutions Architect will build highly consultative trusted relationships with C-level executives and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business challenges. You'll architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth for both the user and Stripe. Responsibilities Be a key member of a Stripe account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption. Understand and align with the customer’s product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate their progress on that roadmap. Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering and Head of Payments. Work to deeply understand the customer’s business objectives, and t

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 Stripe’s GTM Planning and Central Operations team partners with Sales leadership, Finance, Product, Regional Sales Strategy and Operations, and Data Engineering to build the operational processes, tools, policies, and data required to bring our GTM strategy to life. We bring expertise, rigorous thinking, and a user-first approach to problem-solving. We transform, improve, and support Stripe’s global business processes to drive critical initiatives and other cross-functional priorities throughout the sales planning cycle. What you’ll do Build and lead a team of full-time employees and outsourced Sales Operations experts focused on improving our customer data. You will partner with GTM leadership to understand data gaps and address them through processes, policies, and workflows. Responsibilities Apply systems thinking and continuous improvement to the mechanisms owned by the team. Develop a data quality roadmap to address customer data challenges. Align on priorities with leadership, Data Engineering, and Systems teams. Influence the implementation and adoption of systems and tools by working closely with internal systems teams. Create an outsourcing strategy for ongoing data cleanup. Manage contractors as part of the outsourcing strategy to scale data quality initiatives, reporting, processes, and analytics. Define and measure success metrics. Develop dashboards that highlight progress against the identified metrics. Communicate progress

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 Recruiting Strategy & Enablement Team is dedicated to enhancing the quality and efficiency of Stripe's Recruiting function. By executing a suite of strategic projects and programs, we optimize the caliber and productivity of our global recruiting team. Our focus includes driving programmatic initiatives, facilitating data-informed decision-making, and steering change management to enable robust business engagement. We are looking for a talented project manager to join our team. What you’ll do As a Project Manager on the Recruiting Strategy & Enablement team, you'll own strategic programs end-to-end — from scoping and stakeholder alignment through execution, enablement, and measurement. You'll partner closely with Global Recruiting Leads, Hiring Managers, and cross-functional teams to ship initiatives that improve recruiting quality, efficiency, and compliance at a global scale. Day-to-day, you'll balance long-running portfolio work with fast-moving priorities that require you to ramp quickly and execute with minimal oversight. Responsibilities Own and steer strategic programs' objectives and key result areas, including tracking and reporting metrics and overall program management Lead change management initiatives within our recruiting teams and collaborate with partners to facilitate seamless transitions Drive enablement strategies that support program adoption, including comms plans, FAQs, and stakeholder-facing resources Ident

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: Web Presence & Platform (WPP) is organized into two pillars: Platform and Presence . The Platform pillar builds internal systems, tooling, and infrastructure to support the web. The Presence pillar owns Stripe’s public-facing storytelling across stripe.com , including our homepage, product landing pages, industry and solutions pages, and other high-impact go-to-market surfaces. Together, we shape how millions of people understand what Stripe is and what it can do for them. Designers on the Presence team work at the intersection of craft and impact—balancing clarity, polish, and systems thinking with strategic storytelling and experimentation. We collaborate closely with engineering, marketing, content, and product to deliver work that is not only beautiful, but measurably moves the business. What you’ll do As a Designer on the Presence team, you'll contribute to the strategy and execution of Stripe’s most visible web surfaces. You’ll design new product pages, evolve storytelling for specific industries or audiences, and refine reusable patterns that make it easier to scale exceptional work across stripe.com. This is a high-impact role for a thoughtful, collaborative designer who deeply values visual craft, user clarity, and iteration. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to operate at the intersection of storytelling, systems, and scale—and who takes pride in the pixels. Your work will directly shape how millions of use