Product Manager, Startup Products

About the role

You own the end-to-end product lifecycle for Stripe Atlas and related startup-focused products, translating the needs of early stage founders into a clear and ambitious roadmap. You partner with design and engineering to craft experiences that are simultaneously simple and powerful, paying attention to surprisingly great details that materially improve founder outcomes. You set the pace for product development by ruthlessly prioritizing work that moves core metrics and unblocking execution across teams. You define and own business and product metrics, ensuring that every decision is grounded in data and user feedback. You represent Stripe externally with founders, venture capitalists, accelerators, and partners, establishing new collaborations that drive product development. You synthesize qualitative founder insights into clear narratives that inform long term product strategy. You ensure that user feedback loops are tight, unblock stuck users quickly, and collaborate with support to resolve common problems at scale.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Conduct deep qualitative and quantitative research to understand how startup founders use Atlas and other Stripe products to launch and grow their companies.
• Map the end-to-end founder journey across incorporation, capital raising, legal execution, and operations to identify the highest impact pain points and opportunities.
• Translate founder needs and market signals into a prioritized product roadmap that balances experimentation with reliable execution.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to define technical requirements, constraints, and success metrics for each shipped feature.
• Design product experiences that balance simplicity with powerful functionality, ensuring workflows are intuitive even as complexity grows.
• Define and own a clear set of product metrics and experiments to measure adoption, retention, and real business impact for startup founders.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to align on priorities, communicate status updates, and ensure shared understanding of tradeoffs.
• Serve as the external voice of Atlas by engaging with founders, VCs, accelerators, and ecosystem partners to gather feedback and build strategic initiatives.
• Partner with the support team to analyze recurring user issues and drive product solutions that reduce friction and improve the experience.
• Maintain a ruthless focus on throughput, removing blockers for engineering and design to keep the roadmap moving.
• Synthesize qualitative insights into compelling narratives that shape long term product vision and communicate value to internal and external audiences.
• Continuously validate hypotheses through experiments, iterating quickly on features that demonstrate positive impact on founder outcomes.
• Ensure compliance and data security considerations are integrated into product decisions from the earliest stages of exploration.
• Champion accessibility and internationalization so that founders in different regions can use Atlas effectively and with confidence.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product management or product-focused founder experience.
• Demonstrated history of shipping user-facing or API products built on complex technical systems that operate at scale.
• An AI enthusiast and experimenter who is willing to upend existing workflows when a new solution works two times better.
• Passion for helping founders build their businesses and increasing the GDP of the internet.
• Persistence and a whatever-it-takes approach to ensure that your product is successful for users and the business.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulation of founder problems and needs.
• Adept with data and confident in using metrics to understand user impact and drive decisions.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift rapidly.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, design, legal, and support teams to deliver high quality outcomes.
• Willingness to deeply learn Stripe's systems, APIs, and domain so that product decisions are well informed.
• Located in or willing to relocate to one of the following offices: NYC, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco.
• Authorized to work in the country where the role is based without sponsorship requirements at the time of application.

Nice to have

• Background as a founder or experience working in a very early stage company environment.
• Software engineering experience or a degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline.

Practical notes

• This role is full time.
• Work authorization requirements apply; roles may require specific authorization depending on location.
• Compensation details are not included in this listing.
• No travel, visa, or application deadline details are specified in the source material.