Staff Product Manager, Local Processor Acquiring

Job Title

Staff Product Manager, Local Processor Acquiring

About the Role

You will own and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Local Processor Acquiring, defining how Stripe expands into new markets at unprecedented speed. You'll be responsible for building a product that makes local payment methods from emerging markets as seamless and reliable as any other payment method on Stripe, while navigating complex regulatory environments, partner relationships, and deeply different local payment ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy for LPA across multiple markets-from partner selection and integration architecture to buyer UX, merchant activation, and product interoperability with Connect, Billing, Radar, and Terminal.
• Deeply understand each market's payment ecosystem-local payment methods, regulatory requirements, consumer preferences, and competitive dynamics-and use that knowledge to drive prioritization and sequencing decisions.
• Set an ambitious roadmap and drive execution with a scrappy, high-velocity team across Engineering, Partnerships, Legal, Risk, and GTM. Break down the massive surface area of 'launch a country' into tractable, shippable pieces.
• Be the best seller and marketer for the product-work directly with Sales to close strategic accounts, handle objections, build pitch materials, and drive adoption across existing Stripe users.
• Use data rigorously to measure impact and prioritize. Analyze conversion uplift, authorization rates, PIV growth, and margin to determine where to invest next and how to demonstrate ROI.
• Own partner relationships from a product perspective-define requirements, set performance SLAs, and drive partners to deliver experiences consistent with Stripe's quality bar.
• Champion the buyer and merchant experience-obsess over reducing redirects, improving checkout flows, and delivering conversion outcomes that match or exceed direct integrations, even when operating through partners.
• Navigate complex regulatory and compliance landscapes across multiple jurisdictions. Work closely with Legal, Policy, and Risk to find creative solutions that unlock markets while maintaining compliance.
• Collaborate deeply with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Design, Partnerships, Legal, Risk, Sales, Account Management, and Operations.
• Discover new markets and segments (domestic acquiring, global platforms, Connect use cases) and lead them from nascent stages to maturity.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in product management or engineering.
• Deeply technical-can think and act like a developer. Comfortable reading code, engaging on architecture decisions, and understanding complex distributed systems and money flows.
• Scrappy and high-ownership-treats the product as their own business, does whatever it takes to make it succeed across multiple markets simultaneously.
• Data-driven-can write SQL, analyze conversion funnels, measure partner performance, and use data to prioritize markets and features.
• User-obsessed-spends time with merchants and buyers, synthesizes feedback across segments, and translates insights into product direction.
• Cares about craft and beauty-holds a high bar for product quality and user experience even when operating through partner integrations and navigating regulatory constraints.
• Obsesses over solving the problem end to end-from partner integration to buyer checkout to merchant dashboard to settlement and payouts.
• Willing to go extremely deep to understand the complexities of each market-regulations, payment ecosystems, consumer behavior, partner capabilities, and competitive dynamics.
• Experience working with Sales and GTM teams-can act as the best seller and marketer for the product, tell a compelling story about market expansion, and drive adoption with strategic accounts.
• AI native-thoughtfully applies AI across their own work and our products to ship faster and operate more efficiently.
• Able to break down complex problems and systems into functional, shippable pieces-comfortable sequencing work across multiple markets and segments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Salary

$150,000 - $200,000 per year

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with payments and financial services
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements in multiple jurisdictions
• Experience with product management and development
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

How to Apply

If you meet the minimum requirements and have the preferred qualifications, please submit your application. We look forward to hearing from you!