Staff Product Manager, Foundation Pillar

About the role

Sets long-term strategy and outcomes for the Billing Foundations team, which builds shared infrastructure powering Stripe Billing and the revenue and finance suite. Suits senior product managers with 10+ years of experience and deep technical product depth.

What you'll do

• Set the strategy, vision, and outcomes for the Foundations team
• Work directly with the most important clients to ensure product infrastructure and service-level agreements meet their needs
• Partner deeply with engineering to make correct product and engineering tradeoffs as new products are built
• Introduce new infrastructure products that advance the mission, such as Low Latency Streaming Billing and Margin-aware Event Pricing
• Work with engineering leadership to set a long-term vision for how product infrastructure supports agent-led workflows of Stripe Billing customers
• Act as steward for the technical and security aspects of the entire revenue and finance suite, ensuring the product is fast, secure, and reliable
• Partner with principal engineers and product teams across Stripe to shape shared infrastructure and build foundations for the next generation of billing products
• Define initial markets, sequence multi-year opportunities, and connect strategy to detailed requirements, data analysis, and delivery

What you'll need

• 10+ years of product management experience, including owning and delivering complex products with substantial technical or domain depth
• Experience operating as a senior individual contributor: setting direction, aligning cross-functional teams, and driving decisions without formal authority
• Strong customer instincts and experience working directly with specialized users to uncover needs and translate domain complexity into coherent products
• Understanding of complex systems, data models, APIs, integrations, and technical tradeoffs
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaborative leadership across technical, business, and go-to-market teams, including surfacing risks and revising decisions as evidence changes in high-stakes environments
• Strong strategic judgment and experience taking products from ambiguity to execution, including identifying differentiated advantages and defining initial markets

Nice to have

• Familiarity with streaming systems
• Experience managing infrastructure products with reliability of four nines or higher
• An engineering background

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