Engagement Manager

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 Stripe's Professional Services team works with our most strategic users. You'll work on the highest-visibility projects, providing technical expertise that helps enterprises accelerate their knowledge, refine solution design, and build robust integrations with Stripe. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical execution and strategic advisory—leading conversations and developing plans that transform the payments and financial infrastructure of leading businesses. WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Integration Engineer on the Professional Services team, you'll own the technical relationship with Stripe's most strategic users—from initial discovery through to live integration and ongoing optimisation. You'll bring together deep technical expertise and consultative skills to help enterprises design and implement complex integrations, resolve issues at pace, and continuously improve how they use Stripe's platform. RESPONSIBILITIES * Plan and execute integration engineering end-to-end, from high-level architecture to code implementation—conducting discovery sessions, parsing specific use cases, and guiding users through high-complexity integrations * Serve as the primary ongoing technical point of contact for large users' and partners' technical teams, resolving integration issues and owning escalations for operational issues and priority requests * Lead strategic technical conversations, articulating how Stripe works from both a product feature and API architecture perspective, and managing user expectations on timelines and product changes * Collaborate with Sales, Solution Architecture, and Implementation teams to drive user engagement and commercial outcomes on behalf of the Professional Services team * Work closely with Product and Engineering to proactively surface potential enhancements and new features based on field feedback * Provide deep technical support and debugging—inspecting the Stripe codebase, testing functionality thoroughly, building proof-of-concept integrations, creating user-specific test plans, and answering ad-hoc technical questions * Lead hands-on keyboard implementations where required, providing substantive feedback on coding practices, CI/CD, and software architecture * Review and optimise existing user integrations, providing recommendations to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency * Build tools and analytics—including dashboards, queries, and custom data reports—to support user business reviews and operational needs * Develop reusable processes and shared knowledge to enable the broader Professional Services team 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 * 4+ years of experience in a software engineering or integration engineering role * Ability to write and debug code in languages such as Go, Java, C/C++, or similar * Comfortable with code-level debugging (both Stripe and user code) and using code as a practical problem-solving tool * Strong generalist technical background, including proficiency in SQL and a solid understanding of data structures and algorithms * Understanding of the payments domain and API security principles * Able to lead technical conversations and clearly explain how Stripe works from both a product feature and API architecture perspective * User-first mindset with the ability to map business requirements to reliable technical solutions * Confident engaging with users and leading strategic technical discussions PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions engineering, technical consulting, or implementation engineering * Experience mentoring engineers or guiding technical teams through complex implementations * Demonstrated ability to apply structured methodologies to ensure consistency and repeatability across engagements * Strong technical writing skills, including the ability to document complex integration guidance and processes * Track record of navigating and resolving ambiguous, open-ended technical problems both independently and collaboratively

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. WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Engagement Manager at Stripe, you will drive Stripe's future growth engine by leading enterprise-level, strategic users through our integration, implementation and adoption stages that will lead them to become long-term Stripe users and advocates of our products and solutions. Stripe Professional Services provides a rapid path to success and ongoing value for our users. Our Engagement Managers utilize Stripe's proven Implementation Methodology coupled with their project leadership expertise, to guide and enable users and partners to successfully integrate Stripe's solutions rapidly while delivering immediate impact and measurable value. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own all facets of the relationship with the user — Our Engagement Managers provide overall vision and direction throughout the program/project lifecycle for Stripe's most complex user engagements. They are the single point of contact for the Stripe internal organization and for the user program/project management counterparts as it relates to the in-flight implementation to help lead and drive collaboration, knowledge sharing, issue resolution and decision-making. * Accelerate time to value — Rigorous program/project management and quality assurance practices lead to implementation efficiencies that generate cost savings and speed of business outcomes. Engagement Managers are seasoned leaders who build high-performing project teams, accelerate time to value, and drive rapid and effective program decision-making by proactively managing the integration of Stripe's products into the user's application/technical architecture, test and change management strategies and transformation timelines. * Deliver Program / Project Management expertise & innovation — Engagement Managers deliver program/project management expertise based on experience, continuous learning, and in-depth knowledge of Stripe's products and implementation best practices. They drive innovation and adoption of deployment practices, provide product adoption insights and help users achieve the maximum value from their Stripe investment. In addition to this, they play a pivotal role in the continuous improvement and enablement of the Stripe Implementation Methodology and its associated tools, templates and processes. * Manage scope, time, cost and quality — The Engagement Manager provides well-established program/project governance to manage requirements in line with the agreed scope and business objectives. This is made possible through effective balance of time, cost, and quality via proactive program planning focused on business outcomes. * Mitigate and Manage risk — Engagement Managers are responsible for providing proactive risk assessment, prevention and mitigation plans and the efficient identification, tracking, and resolution of issues and decisions using established tools and templates with internal and user stakeholders. Engagement Managers are the primary interface between the user and Stripe's Product and Engineering teams to drive implementation alignment to the forward roadmap and future capabilities. * Provide Program / Project Governance — Leading into and throughout the Implementation Program and associated projects, the Engagement Manager will work in concert with the user's assigned Program / Project Manager to instantiate and execute on the agreed Program / Project Governance model and related Stakeholder Management and Communications plan. * Close out the project — Upon project completion, Engagement Managers ensure a smooth transition of the implemented Stripe capabilities into operation for the user. This includes complete knowledge transfer and the handover to Stripe Support. * Engage as part of a thriving internal Engagement Management Community — Our Engagement Managers actively participate in a global community of practitioners to continually evolve and improve the way in which Stripe leads and supports our users through high impact and complex implementations of Stripe's payment infrastructure. 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 * 7+ years of experience working with enterprise-level strategic users on complex technology or business transformation programs with a track record of top performance or a related field * Ability to understand complex business requirements and craft tailored solutions * Ability to quickly learn and explain technical concepts to Stripe's largest users in a way which they will understand. Some may be deeply technical. Others may be more business focused, so you'll need to talk to users in a language they can understand * Proven program management skills and experience * Strong critical thinking skills, including the ability to identify suboptimal processes and drive more efficient ways of working * Ability to recognize repeated user-facing issues and build scalable solutions * Superior verbal and written communication skills * Ability to operate independently in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment * Demonstrated ability to engage with and lead executive stakeholders and key decision makers on the user side to drive towards an agreed outcome * Experience in working with or in complex enterprise organizational and decision making structures * An ability to work collaboratively with and influence Stripe's Product and Engineering teams to advocate for our users and continuously shape the forward roadmap of Stripe's applications * Apply structured problem-solving and stakeholder management frameworks — drawing on experience from complex, multi-workstream client engagements to drive program clarity, alignment and outcomes PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * This role is well-suited for professionals with a background in management consulting, technology advisory, or professional services, who are looking to bring their client engagement expertise to a high-growth technology environment. * Industry certifications to ensure project success. Typical certifications include: * Certified ScrumMaster * PMP or PRINCE2 Certification * Prior experience in the payments industry * A familiarity with the integration and testing of APIs