People Solutions Program 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 People Solutions team is a highly collaborative, cross-functional team that drives key technical and process solutions delivery for the People Team at Stripe, working with stakeholders across the People Team, Finance, Corporate Technology, Workplace, and more. Stripes are the users of the solutions we deliver, and our primary goal is to deliver a world-class employee experience rooted in technology. We work with many different teams at Stripe, and serve as internal consultants to various stakeholders and leaders. We are nimble and flexible individuals who can wear many different hats. We don't mind working through ambiguity and love adding organization to chaos. We are strategy driven, with an execution mindset. What you’ll do The Solutions team is responsible for the design, implementation, and enhancement of Stripe Employee Experience technology. You'll apply your innovative thinking, business process, and technical systems expertise to deliver digital solutions that ultimately improve the employee, manager, candidate, and internal team experiences. You'll undertake a wide variety of responsibilities from strategic technical roadmapping, user interviews, requirements confirmation, vendor evaluations, technical solution design, system design and data architecture consultation, and technical project management and execution for the full software lifecycle. To achieve this vision, you'll partner with many partners across the organization such as business stakeholders, process and policy owners, engineers, program managers, product managers, communications, legal, and internal subject matter experts. As a consultant and strategist you'll have domain expertise in internal systems, technical fluency, agility, and excellent project management skills to advise leaders, guide projects, and ultimately design and deliver superior solutions that will ensure operational readiness for scale across our global organization. Responsibilities Stakeholder partnership & roadmap ownership — Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand strategic priorities, define multi-quarter technology roadmaps, and ensure ROI is clearly articulated to secure resource capacity for execution. Product leadership & employee experience design — Act as a product leader by deeply understanding Stripe's employee experience needs, creating mockups to drive alignment on requirements, and presenting compelling product strategies that connect business priorities to outcomes. Vendor evaluation & build/buy decisions — Conduct third-party vendor analyses and deliver data-informed build-or-buy recommendations grounded in industry expertise and ROI. Cross-functional solution delivery — Collaborate with engineers, designers, systems analysts, and PMs to translate requirements into technical designs; facilitate build plans, UAT, and end-to-end testing to bring solutions to production. Data-driven decision-making & KPI management — Use data, storytelling, and KPIs to support prioritization decisions, monitor solution adoption, define ROI, and surface risks to stakeholders and leadership. Project & program management — Apply structured project management practices — including goal-setting, project planning, status reporting, risk management, and metrics tracking — to deliver solutions on time and across disciplines. Launch enablement & approvals — Partner with PMO, Systems, Operations, and Communications teams to successfully l