Design Program Manager, Research OperationsActive

The opportunity

Stripe’s Design organization builds the product and brand experiences that millions of businesses and developers rely on. We’re a cross-functional, global organization of product designers, content designers, design researchers, design systems engineers, motion designers, and design program specialists.

What you'll do

  • Lead and build programs for the Research organization. Develop and implement: processes and resources that support impactful research and scale the use of user insights across Stripe.

  • Improve our operating model and processes, including automating tasks,: improving workflows, and developing repeatable methodologies. Measure the impact of these changes.

  • Prepare researchers to use agentic workflows, including designing, building,: and overseeing autonomous, multi-agent workflows.

  • Build custom tools, agents, automations, and skills for Research workflows and responsibilities.

  • Evaluate and implement new tools with researchers and cross-functional: partners to support new capabilities across Stripe.

  • Work with researchers and designers across disciplines, skills, backgrounds,: and specialties. Identify patterns and scale successful tools and approaches for broader team use.

What they're looking for

  • You understand research work. You have direct experience in Design or can: quickly learn the workflows, deliverables, tools, and pressures relevant to Stripe researchers. You recognize that understanding someone’s work is necessary before changing it.
  • You have hands-on experience building artificial intelligence (AI) agents,: automations, and tools. You’ve built solutions that changed how work gets done, and you can build alongside the people you support.
  • You’re an effective coach and communicator. You adapt your approach to: different audiences and help people adopt new ways of working.
  • You recognize patterns and think in systems. When you build something that: works for one person, you look for ways to make it useful to others.
  • You’re persistent and versatile, with skills that can apply across the company.
  • You prioritize action and speed. You can show someone a useful proof of: concept on their own deliverable today, while continuing to build toward longer-term platform goals.
  • + years of experience in design thinking, qualitative or quantitative: research, user experience, or program management, including experience partnering with research teams.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, agents,: automations, or workflows that improved real work processes for designers, researchers, creative teams, or product teams.