Product Manager, Ecosystem
Stripe · US · 8571 Ecosystem Product · listed October 6, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Manager
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
9
Length
614 words
In the posting’s own words
Our goal is to create a compounding ecosystem: better distribution generates merchant demand and stronger partner returns; those returns attract more high-quality apps; and those apps broaden Stripe’s product fit and value to users.
What it asks for · 9
- 10+ 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.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing senior stakeholders and leading across organizational boundaries.
Also a plus
- Experience building or scaling an app marketplace, developer ecosystem, or two-sided platform.
- Experience with marketplace search, recommendations, ranking, personalization, or contextual distribution.
- Experience designing partner monetization, incentives, or revenue-sharing models.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS workflows such as CRM, ERP, ecommerce, support, reporting, or quote-to-cash.
- Experience in payments, financial technology, or another regulated technology environment.
- Experience taking a platform or marketplace from 0→1 and scaling its adoption and operating model.
What the job covers
- 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.
- Create the incentives, analytics, growth tools, and monetization capabilities that help developers build sustainable businesses and continue investing in Stripe.
- Define and monitor ecosystem health, including app coverage and quality, merchant conversion and retention, partner success, and incremental value to Stripe.
- Lead cross-functional teams across Engineering, Design, Data Science, Partnerships, Developer Relations, Marketing, Sales, Support, Risk, and Legal.
- Represent Stripe’s ecosystem strategy with developers, technology partners, and users, using their feedback and quantitative evidence to guide product decisions.
- Align senior stakeholders around priorities and trade-offs, and communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly.
Tools and skills named
Go to market
- Partnerships
- SaaS
Product & design
- Roadmap2×
Security & compliance
- Security
Ways of working
- Cross-functional
Words the posting leans on
- ecosystem13×
- product13×
- experience11×
- marketplace11×
- app10×
- developers9×
- partner9×
- platform6×
- merchant5×
- third-party5×
- build4×
- businesses4×
- discovery4×
- distribution4×
- strategy4×
- support4×
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