Startup Partnerships - Y Combinator

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We believe startups are the future. We work with many of the newest and most innovative companies to help them grow, and we need your help. We're looking for someone who knows their way around the early-stage startup ecosystem to represent Stripe and share what we're working on with a broad base of startups and accelerator partners. Our primary goal is to help early-stage founders succeed, and that comes in a variety of forms - mentorship, helping them set up their financial stack, connecting them with investors and mentors, being their internal advocate, and much more.

What it asks for · 9

• 7+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem with startup or investing experience.
• Experienced business or technical founder with a passion for helping other founders.
• Strong understanding of the startup ecosystem, founder empathy, and ability to build strong partnerships, particularly within the Y Combinator community
• A user-first mindset, anything less than perfect is unacceptable to you.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to get new programming off the ground.
• You’re a builder by nature and are excited to launch new initiatives within Stripe that extend surprisingly delightful experiences to best in class founders.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Hunger and motivation to operate (and thrive) in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
• Humility, and who takes initiative with a “no task is too small” and “I’ll get it done” attitude.

Also a plus

• Well-networked individual who is active in the early stage venture capital and startup ecosystem
• Alumni of Y Combinator
• Ability to understand a technical buyer and key moments in their life-cycle where financial infrastructure decisions are made.
• Adept public speaker, presenter and moderator.
• Sales experience, understands channel partnerships and the value this channel brings to a GTM org.
• Strong Data skills - conversant in SQL or Python - and willingness to build tools serve our users and measure business impact.

What the job covers

• Oversee our YC Combinator and other accelerator partnerships
• Work across the business to ensure that every founder's experience of Stripe is surprisingly delightful
• Build out and oversee the execution of key programs
• Spin up new initiatives that add continuous value to the Y Combinator ecosystem
• Serve as a point of escalation for partners and top startups to grow Stripe’s brand within the Y Combinator ecosystem
• Maintain a product feedback loop to internal teams to ensure that we continue to build for the highest potential businesses
• Work cross functionally with key internal stakeholders to advance strategic Stripe initiatives for startup founders
• Collate startup ecosystem insights and prepare weekly / quarterly updates detailing business progress, market trends, and product feedback gathered from startup engagement
• Represent Stripe in the startup ecosystem and take up speaking opportunities at key startup events that bolster Stripe as the best platform for founders to start and scale
• Leverage your data prowess (SQL, etc) to build out tools that enable us to better serve founders and demonstrate impact
• Interest and demonstrated ability to cultivate deep, trust-based partnerships with some of the most consequential venture capitalists

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• early-stage5×
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