Marketing Strategy and Operations - Product Marketing

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Marketing Strategy and Operations team is responsible for organizational effectiveness and transformational programs. We help create the processes and conditions for high performance by others. We partner closely with the CMO and the marketing leadership team to drive strategy operations and planning across the marketing and sales development organization. And we lead programs that make things noticeably better for internal and external users.

This role will report into the Marketing Strategy and Operations team while embedding in the Product Marketing (PMM) organization.

What you'll do

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Head of PMM and the PMM leadership team to improve operational efficiency. This will range from helping us drive our planning process to introducing playbooks to improve our launch process to creating systems and programs that make the PMM team partner more effectively with partner teams across Marketing Sales and Product.

• Lead strategic high-impact projects in support of our PMM strategy (e.g. synthesizing user research and market to drive recommendations for growth and strategic focus)

• Partner with PMM leadership for the efficient running of the PMM organization. Create processes and conditions that enable the PMM teams to do their best work efficiently.

• Partner with the Head of PMM and PMM leadership team to develop and deploy an investment framework to guide resource allocation decisions. Use the framework in planning cycles and whenever we make key investment decisions.

• Partner closely with the finance people and GTM operations teams to drive planning processes including investment decisions strategy updates operational plans targets and goals (OKRs) and communication plans.

• Independently define programs to address specific problems. This includes scoping setting Prepare summaries of organizational performance and progress for weekly monthly and quarterly business reviews monthly internal newsletters and all hands meetings.

• Write clear and concise internal documents slides emails and Slack messages to summarize plans priorities results celebrate wins and more. Drive alignment inform and lead change with effective communication.

• Bring rapid clarity to ambiguous situations resolve them effectively communicate decisions efficiently and enable teams to move towards implementing solutions. Bring your experience and contextual knowledge to bear on the problems that teams need to solve.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience

• 3+ years of experience in a combination of program management product management business operations strategy and operations finance and consulting

• Effective communicating at all levels of an organization from executives to project teams

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to establish strong relationships with stakeholders and build trust with senior leaders

• Thrive in solving ambiguous problems and see opportunities where others see chaos

• Relentless focus on users and solving for their needs and wants

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a technology company

• 3+ years of experience working directly with C-level executives and their direct reports

• 3+ years of experience in business operations strategy and operations or consulting

• 3+ of experience with sales and marketing technology

• 3+ years of experience running recurring planning processes

• 2+ years of experience in a product marketing function

• 2+ years of experience as a product manager or technical program manager

• 2+ years of experience planning and writing internal communications

• Experience developing and using a marketing investment framework