Stripe

Strategy & Operations, Infrastructure

Stripe

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California, Illinois, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Partner with Infrastructure leadership to define the long-term strategic vision and build the annual operating plans, ensuring alignment with Stripe's overall company strategy.
  • Maintain a pulse on the financial health/cost of Infrastructure including relevant trends, and proactively surface areas of concern or opportunity.
  • Build and own models for in-depth analyses & benchmark key metrics to help inform our overall strategy and make the right growth decisions for Infrastructure.
  • Obsess over our top infrastructure efficiency metrics, helping to surface, track, and drive initiatives that will move the needle.
  • Support cross-functional execution across priority projects, ensuring alignment between teams (e.g., product, engineering, marketing, sales, support).
  • Design and implement operational systems and processes (e.g., reporting dashboards, planning forums, decision-making workflows) that help the infrastructure group scale efficiently.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in strategy & operations, data science, finance, product management, or similar roles at technology companies
  • Experience working in highly cross functional settings, and in a role that spans strategy, analysis, and operations in a fast-paced environment
  • Critical and first principles thinking (e.g., ability to question how we are working rather than simply executing), and the ability to zoom out to the most important questions
  • Passion for digging deep into data and problem solving
  • Experience in data analytics with demonstrated ability in navigating large data sets and/or SQL
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to speak to leaders across different teams, such as partnerships, product, engineering, and sales
  • Demonstrated ability to thrive in influence without authority environments
  • Good balance of business and technical acumen
  • An ability to execute with minimal guidance, and in contexts with a high degree of ambiguity
  • Previous experience in Infrastructure strategy (e.g., Compute, Storage, Networking, IT, Security or Developer Platforms), the Payments ecosystem, or high-scale Fintech is highly preferred.
  • Proven ability to facilitate large-scale technical forums and planning sessions, maintaining a focus on measurable goals, infrastructure SLAs, and ROI-driven outcomes.
  • Experience driving creative solutions for capacity and efficiency bottlenecks, with a track record of effectively influencing the roadmaps of cross-functional engineering and product teams.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data analyticsSQLfinancial modelingbenchmarkingoperational systems designreporting dashboardsdecision-making workflowsinfrastructure efficiency metricscapacity solutionstechnical forums facilitation
Soft skills
critical thinkingfirst principles thinkingproblem solvingwritten communicationverbal communicationinfluence without authoritybusiness acumentechnical acumenexecution with minimal guidanceadaptability in ambiguity