Engineering Manager, Managed Payments

Job Description

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. About the team Stripe Managed Payments is a new horizontal layer across Stripe's platform that enables businesses to delegate substantial operational complexity to Stripe. In this model, Stripe serves as the merchant of record, providing an all-in-one solution for software and digital-goods businesses that takes on global tax compliance and liability, handles fraud and disputes, delivers a conversion-optimized checkout experience, and owns post-sale consumer support. We recently launched our general availability to significant market demand. The product is still at an early and exciting stage: the foundations are working, and the opportunity ahead is enormous. We're a relatively small, high-context team with outsized scope-Managed Payments touches Checkout, Payment Links, Billing, Tax, Connect, support, operations, and more. What you'll do As an Engineering Manager for Managed Payments, you will lead a highly motivated team building one of Stripe's most promising new product areas. This is a particularly high-leverage role: a significant part of the job is helping the team move quickly while raising the bar on execution, prioritization, communication, and cross-org coordination. You'll partner closely with product and design to shape the long-term roadmap, and will drive alignment across a wide range of partner teams. Success here requires strong engineering leadership, but also sharp judgment about product, operations, and how to get many stakeholders moving in the same direction. Near-term priorities include: Self-serve growth and funnel optimization - Deepening integration with onboarding flows to maximize eligible user conversion and reduce funnel leakage Local acquiring - Building a network of local Managed Payments entities to route traffic dynamically, enabling locally acquired transactions globally and unlocking meaningful auth, cost, fraud, and compliance benefits Advanced billing - Supporting complex pricing strategies (token-based billing, upgrades/downgrades, async invoicing) to serve the needs of AI-native and high-growth businesses Flexible checkout composition - Building more modular, customizable checkout components in partnership with our OCS teams, so users can compose their ideal Managed Payments checkout experience Global funds management - Evolving how Managed Payments balances and moves funds globally, partnering with our Money Movement infrastructure teams to support international expansion Ongoing quality and growth - Improving onboarding clarity, expanding support for local payment methods, enabling seamless migrations to and from SMP, and raising quality across disputes

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