Strategy & Operations, Infrastructure

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WASouth San Francisco, CA
Salary
$191,500–$287,300 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $181k
This role $239k
$108k most similar roles pay here $306k

This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $146,650–$214,700 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $239k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 174 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,950–$285,600 across 172 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Strategy & Operations, Infrastructure

The Strategy & Operations, Infrastructure role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, strategy, finance, data, and go-to-market execution to ensure the infrastructure organization remains efficient and scalable. You will partner with leadership to define long-term strategic visions, build annual operating plans, and manage the financial health and cost trends of infrastructure. Day-to-day responsibilities include building models for in-depth analysis, benchmarking key metrics like utilization and latency, and designing operational systems such as reporting dashboards and decision-making workflows. You will translate complex system performance and capacity trends into actionable requirements to solve problems regarding system scalability, platform reliability, and resource optimization. The role requires proficiency in data analytics, SQL, and navigating large datasets to drive high-stakes architectural decisions while balancing technical acumen with business goals within the financial infrastructure domain.

What you'll do

  • Define long-term strategic visions and annual operating plans in alignment with company goals.
  • Monitor infrastructure financial health and proactively identify cost trends or optimization opportunities.
  • Build analytical models to benchmark key metrics and inform high-level growth decisions.
  • Track and drive initiatives focused on improving core infrastructure efficiency metrics.
  • Manage cross-functional execution for priority projects across product, engineering, marketing, and sales teams.
  • Design and implement operational systems, reporting dashboards, and decision-making workflows to scale the organization.
  • Translate complex system performance and capacity trends into actionable infrastructure requirements.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in strategy & operations, data science, finance, product management, or similar roles at technology companies.
  • Experience working in highly cross-functional settings involving strategy, analysis, and operations in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficiency in data analytics with the ability to navigate large datasets and/or SQL.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for communicating with leaders across various departments.
  • Ability to work independently in high-ambiguity environments and influence others without direct authority.
  • Strong balance of business and technical acumen combined with first principles thinking.
  • Experience in Infrastructure strategy, the Payments ecosystem, or high-scale Fintech (preferred).
  • Proven ability to facilitate large-scale technical forums and drive solutions for capacity and efficiency bottlenecks (preferred).

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