Staff Product Manager, Global Expansion

About the role

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. You will own the end-to-end product strategy and execution for Stripe's India business, shaping how we serve a rapidly evolving domestic digital economy and enabling ambitious Indian companies to scale globally. This role demands an entrepreneurial product leader who moves quickly, thinks analytically, and builds differentiated products in a complex market. You will partner deeply with cross-functional teams to define localized offerings, capture significant market opportunities, and drive measurable growth, revenue, and merchant satisfaction. The impact you deliver will directly influence Stripe's position in a strategic and high-growth market.

Key facts

What you'll do

Own the India product strategy and roadmap end-to-end, defining vision, prioritizing initiatives, and measuring outcomes tied to growth, revenue, and merchant satisfaction.

Lead cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, data science, operations, legal and compliance, sales, and partnerships, to deliver product features, integrations, and commercial programs tailored to India.

Translate market dynamics into product differentiation by deeply understanding Indian merchants, platforms, payment service providers, gateways, regulators, and payment rails.

Move quickly from insight to experiment by designing and running rapid experiments, launching localized features and pricing, and iterating based on quantitative and qualitative feedback.

Build products and flows that simplify selling globally for Indian businesses, including cross-border routing, FX and reconciliation, compliance, payout rails, and developer experience improvements.

Partner with partnerships and business development teams to secure and scale strategic distribution and platform integrations across India and for global expansion.

Represent the product and market perspective to regional and global stakeholders, providing clear decision-making rationale and trade-off analysis.

Design localized product experiences that account for India's unique payment methods, banking landscape, and evolving regulatory environment.

Define and track key metrics to assess product performance, validate hypotheses, and guide data-driven decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Champion merchant-centricity by engaging directly with merchant communities, gathering feedback, and translating insights into actionable product requirements.

Enable sales and commercial teams with tools, pricing frameworks, and workflows that streamline deal execution and expansion in India and across borders.

Continuously explore emerging technologies and competitive moves to identify opportunities for product leadership and first-mover advantage in India and globally.

Requirements

Demonstrated product leadership in payments, fintech, marketplaces, or developer platform products, with 12+ years of experience in product management or equivalent roles.

Deep knowledge of the Indian payments and commerce ecosystem, including local payment methods, banks, and the regulatory landscape.

Track record of shipping localized products and scaling go-to-market plays in India or other complex emerging markets.

Strong analytical instincts, with experience running experiments and using metrics to drive decisions.

Comfortable with ambiguity and skilled at prioritizing high-impact initiatives while moving quickly and iterating based on feedback.

Excellent communicator and collaborator who can influence across engineering, legal and compliance, operations, and sales.

Customer-obsessed with first-hand experience talking to merchants, partners, and developer communities, and able to translate feedback into product requirements.

Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action, and experience operating with limited resources to unlock outsized outcomes.

Nice to have

Experience with cross-border payments, currency conversion, payouts, or compliance for global trade.

Prior work with developer platforms, SDKs/APIs, or businesses that expose products to external developers.

Experience building products that serve businesses selling into multiple countries.

Knowledge of financial infrastructure, settlement systems, and reconciliation tooling.

Background working with regulated industries and understanding of compliance and risk frameworks.

Experience scaling products in complex, multi-region environments while balancing local needs and global standards.

Practical notes

This is a full-time position based in Bengaluru.

The role may involve travel within India and internationally to engage with stakeholders and support business development.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India without requiring sponsorship for this role.