Corporate Development Strategy

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 M&A and Investing team takes a long-term view of Stripe’s opportunities and the broader ecosystem, partnering with our product teams to continuously evaluate whether we should build, buy, or partner (and invest) in strategic areas. In the last few years, we’ve invested in a large number of amazing companies and have also significantly ramped our M&A pace. And we’re just getting started!

What you’ll do

Our team is in the early build phase, which means there’s no shortage of opportunities to roll up your sleeves and work with great leaders and execs across the org to refine and execute on our business strategy. As a member of the Corporate Development team, you hold a senior and influential role in charting Stripe’s future. Fishing in the most heavily capitalized VC sector, there is a massive opportunity to connect Stripe to emerging themes and great companies, and to identify and champion strategic initiatives that measurably fuel Stripe’s ongoing growth.

Responsibilities

• Identify the big important questions that matter most to our long-term value, develop an informed perspective on them, and influence downstream key strategic decisions.
• In partnership with Stripe’s leadership, product, and strategy teams, actively augment Stripe’s strategy using external and internal research on user needs and emerging, elegant solutions to them.
• Publish materials internally that agitate and provoke Stripe to think differently based on network and market research insights.
• Create executive and board-facing briefs that enable the organization to make informed decisions on key strategic issues
• Network vigorously with the world’s best founders and investors, keeping your ear to ground on emerging trends and sourcing exceptional products and companies
• Build trusted relationships with potential M&A and investment targets, positioning towards deeper engagements with cross functional teams
• Drive the early aspects of deal execution, from identification and articulation of key value drivers to integration hypothesis planning.
• Develop encyclopedic knowledge of acquisition and investment performance (financial and strategic) by conducting ROI “lookbacks” on deal and integration success, informing our future strategy and execution

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

• 7+ years of quality work experience with a background in both product management/engineering and corporate strategy in high-growth, product-led environments
• A rigorous understanding of Stripe’s products and business
• Strong critical thinking skills and passion for solving ambiguous or complex business issues
• A self-starting mentality and comfort operating in fast-paced, high-growth and often ambiguous environments
• Strong analytical capabilities; able to analyze and derive insights from financial and cohort data; ability to cut through the noise to get to the most important lever
• Prior corporate experience sourcing, originating and evaluating acquisitions, investments, or greenfield product opportunities
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional settings; track record of driving groups of senior partners to decisions and results
• Exceptional written and communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• Strong founder and investor network
• Impeccable product intuition and taste
• Work experience spanning both the “why” and the “how”
• Demonstrated high degree of interest and expertise in the fintech space or a developer-focused industry