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 Bank Partnerships team sits within the Global Partnerships organization and is a key component of Stripe’s success. Our team is responsible for developing and managing all Banking as a service (BaaS) bank partner relationships for Stripe across our Issuing, Treasury, and Capital businesses. These partnerships have a significant impact on Stripe and are essential for us to offer products used by millions of our users.
What you’ll do
We are looking for a new member to join our team to develop and execute on high-impact initiatives and strategies with both new and existing BaaS (Banking as a Service) bank partners. As part of the role, you will work closely with Product to support our Issuing, Treasury, and Capital businesses. This includes developing partner requirements, leading relationships with partners to execute on these requirements, and negotiating, signing, and managing relationships with global partners to support our growing business.
The role will also require close coordination internally with cross-functional teams including Product as aforementioned plus Engineering, Legal, Finance, and Risk and externally with partners’ senior executives.
Responsibilities
- Manage Stripe’s critical BaaS partnerships, with a focus on driving the execution of joint initiatives and launching new offerings to benefit Stripe users
- Ensure best-in-class, methodical partner and deal management rooted in milestone definition, thoughtful negotiation approach, and alignment on opportunities of mutual interest
- Leverage industry knowledge to craft thoughtful partnership and product strategies, and execute deals and initiatives that support Stripe’s strategy
- Gather inputs from and coordinate with internal cross-functional stakeholders (including risk, compliance, product, engineering, treasury) to drive creation and execution of partner (and related product) strategy
- Identify partner stakeholders who will champion Stripe, educate them about Stripe’s value proposition, and build alignment between Stripe and our partner’s executive teams
- Manage strategic planning and negotiation/expansion with our key partner(s)
- Manage multiple stakeholders with varying priorities and drive creative solutions and commitment to a shared goal
- Use strategic and product creativity to design and develop new models for money movement and extension of BaaS use cases to Stripe’s direct and platform users
- Exhibit an operationally focused mindset, with an ability to lead teams through complex relationship management activities by setting a clear vision and running tight processes
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
- 10+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, corporate development or related field
- 8+ years of experience related to payments, card networks and/or financial services
- Thorough understanding of BaaS business models and associated best practices with regard to compliance and risk management
- Broad and deep experience executing industry-wide partnership strategies to build innovative product experiences and go to market models
- Experience negotiating commercial deals with bank partners, including scaling such deals across multiple partners
- Experience working in a product centric environments with significant internal and external dependencies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders internally and externally across a wide variety of functions, including at the C level
