Policy Development & Strategy

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 Policy team works to understand and shape the regulatory and political environment in which Stripe operates — advising on product and business strategy, developing Stripe's policy positions, and engaging with policymakers and regulators around the world. The Policy Development & Strategy team sits at the center of this work, connecting Policy to Stripe's product and business teams and ensuring the company can pursue a proactive, coordinated policy agenda.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Policy Development & Strategy Manager to lead the design, coordination, and execution of our cross-functional working group model. We are formalizing and streamlining coordination between Policy and product and business teams, and this person will be the connective tissue that makes it work — driving alignment between policy priorities and business strategy across the company.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role requiring someone who is equally comfortable in a room with product engineers and senior policy leaders, and who can translate between policy risk and business opportunity with fluency and credibility. The ideal candidate brings substantive expertise in payments policy, combined with the organizational horsepower to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams at scale. We are looking for someone who is equally passionate about policy and business, brings sharp analytical instincts, genuine curiosity about how products and markets work, and the drive to build something that doesn't yet exist.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the operating model connecting Stripe's Policy team to its product and business counterparts — operationalizing a strategic engagement agenda through structured forums, clear DRIs, and agendas spanning product developments, policy horizon scanning, issue position formation, and advocacy strategy.
• Stay current on Stripe's product portfolio and roadmap across payments, stablecoins, financial services, and AI — and on the regulatory developments shaping each area — while building direct relationships with product and business counterparts to understand where policy intersects with opportunity or risk. 
• Partner with Policy leadership, Government Relations leads, and subject matter experts to develop issue positions, maintain living product and issue briefs, and keep the full Policy team informed, aligned, and able to move quickly. 
• Translate complex policy and product issues into clear, compelling materials — including issue briefs, talking points, policy memos, and executive communications — and develop proactive advocacy positions and campaigns that ensure Stripe's engagement with policymakers, regulators, and industry bodies is grounded in accurate product understanding and aligned with business strategy.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across Product, Business, Legal, and Finance — spanning core payments, financial partnerships, treasury, Stripe Crypto, Bridge, and beyond — serving as a consistent point of contact for business-side partners, navigating competing priorities, and ensuring policy considerations are surfaced early in product and business decisions.

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

• 8+ years of experience in policy, regulatory affairs, government relations, or a related field.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams — building trust across teams with competing priorities, setting strategic agendas, facilitating executive-level forums, and holding stakeholders accountable to outcomes.
• Ability to synthesize regulatory developments into clear, actionable implications for product and business strategy, with experience developing policy positions and advocacy strategies and a track record of producing crisp policy briefs and executive communications.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple forums and workstreams simultaneously; a self-starter who builds structure in ambiguous environments and maintains strong knowledge management and cross-functional documentation practices.
• Genuinely excited to understand how products work and how policy creates or removes business value — a resourceful, fast-moving doer who is as comfortable building from scratch as advising senior leaders, and motivated by impact at every level.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services, payments and/or digital assets.
• Knowledge of the payments ecosystem (core infrastructure, rails, bank-fintech partnerships), stablecoins and digital assets, financial crimes and risk policy, a plus.