The opportunity
Stripe’s ecosystem enables third-party developers and technology partners to extend products such as Payments, Billing, Tax, Checkout, and Workflows. The Ecosystem team builds the Stripe Apps Marketplace and the distribution, platform, and incentive systems that connect businesses with valuable third-party solutions.
What you'll do
Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Stripe’s third-party app ecosystem and Marketplace.
Define the highest-value merchant needs and ecosystem gaps by product,: segment, industry, and geography; determine when Stripe should build, partner, or enable third parties to address them.
Improve the merchant funnel from discovery and evaluation through: installation, activation, usage, and retention.
Expand distribution beyond the Marketplace by surfacing relevant apps across: Stripe’s product workflows, onboarding, Dashboard, support, and other high-intent experiences.
Improve discovery through search, taxonomy, recommendations, personalization, and merchandising.
Establish marketplace standards for app quality, reliability, security,: permissions, support, and data-use transparency so businesses can adopt third-party solutions confidently.
What they're looking for
- + years of product-management, engineering, product-focused founder, or: equivalent experience, including ownership of a complex product area at scale.
- Experience setting strategy and driving execution for a platform,: marketplace, ecosystem, developer product, or other multi-sided business.
- Demonstrated success improving acquisition, discovery, conversion, activation, or retention.
- Strong judgment across user-facing products, technical platforms, partner: economics, and marketplace trade-offs.
- Experience leading ambiguous initiatives across multiple product, engineering, and business teams.
- Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, developer tooling, and platform products.
- Demonstrated ability to define metrics and use qualitative and quantitative: evidence to prioritize investments.
- Experience working directly with external developers, technology partners, or enterprise users.