Staff Product Manager, Custom Objects

About this role

Lead Stripe’s early-stage Custom Objects product, helping businesses model, ingest, and use their own data alongside Stripe-native objects. Own the product line from customer discovery and design through roadmap, pricing, and success metrics, with a goal of public preview in early 2027.

About the company

Stripe provides payment infrastructure and financial tools that help businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, and move money globally. It serves startups through large enterprises with APIs for online and in-person commerce.

The team

Platform team; Custom Objects is part of Stripe’s extensibility platform.

What you'll do

• Engage daily with customers and internal product teams to validate ideas, requirements, and prototypes
• Partner with engineering and design to prioritize and ship useful functionality
• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for public preview in early 2027
• Set success metrics and work with user researchers to test hypotheses and understand user needs
• Coordinate across Stripe teams to make their products compatible with custom objects

What we're looking for

• 12+ years of product management experience
• Computer science background or equivalent technical experience
• Experience building data platforms or tools that consume or modify custom objects
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to clarify ambiguous concepts from first principles
• Experience leading initiatives across large, multi-team engineering organizations and influencing technical roadmaps

Nice to have

• Enjoy interacting with customers on social media for feedback
• Founded a business or startup and taken a product from zero to one
• Personally test-drive features and substantially edit documentation before shipping

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends