Staff Product Manager, Sail Core

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Staff Product Manager will own the frontend platform strategy and roadmap, lead large-scale modernization initiatives, and drive developer experience improvements through technical product decisions, metrics, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Stripe's frontend platform
• Drive the largest frontend modernization initiative at Stripe while holding the line on architectural quality
• Redefine frontend development with agentic tooling
• Define and track key metrics such as latency, build times, and reliability SLOs to make difficult trade-off decisions
• Be the product voice in deeply technical decisions such as API surface design, framework deprecation sequencing, extraction boundaries, and migration tooling

Requirements:

• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years on platform, infrastructure, or developer tools teams
• Strong technical fluency in frontend web development—you discuss JavaScript and TypeScript, React component models, build systems, and performance optimization with depth
• Experience driving large-scale migrations or platform transitions across multiple teams, including the sequencing, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment that make them succeed
• Demonstrated use of quantitative metrics to drive platform investment decisions—you've defined the metrics, not just tracked them
• Track record of partnering with engineering to make architectural trade-offs grounded in user impact
• Engineering background—you've written frontend code professionally and it still shapes how you think about product decisions
• Led or significantly contributed to a legacy extraction or monolith decomposition effort and understand viscerally why they're hard and where they get stuck
• Believe that fast software is the best software
• Naturally default to the platform solution over the one-off fix, but know when speed demands the opposite
• Explain what a cascading re-render is, why it matters, and what to do about it—to an engineer, a designer, and a VP, in three different ways