Description
We're looking for a Program Manager, Engineering to join our Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team. As a Program Manager, you will bridge the gap between compliance requirements and high-velocity engineering, applying critical thinking to define compliant workflows, design effective controls, and drive adoption of those workflows across engineering and operations teams.
In this role, you will be a subject matter expert in technology compliance standards, ensuring that Stripe's products and platform operate in accordance with the requirements they are subject to. You will work closely with infrastructure, platform, SRE, and product engineering teams to deliver technical controls and automation.
Responsibilities include:
- Deep technical compliance experience: demonstrable experience implementing and operating controls and audit programs (ISO, SOC, PCI, UK Cyber Essentials, privacy audits, or similar) in complex, distributed environments.
- Design and implement baseline technology controls, ensuring they are practical, scalable, and aligned with compliance and security requirements.
- Strong engineering collaboration: proven track record working with infrastructure, platform, SRE, and product engineering teams to deliver technical controls and automation.
- Tooling and automation mindset: experience building scalable tools, frameworks, or platforms that reduce manual evidence collection and audit testing overhead.
- Fintech or regulated industry background preferred: experience with financial reporting, payment platforms, or similarly regulated systems is strongly desired.
- Program leadership at scale: ability to lead cross-organizational programs, influence senior engineers and executives, and drive consensus across competing priorities.
- Data-driven communicator: strong analytical skills to prioritize risk and remediation, and the ability to present complex technical compliance concepts to auditors and executives.
Minimum requirements include:
- 7+ years of experience in technical compliance, security, or risk roles with direct responsibility for audit or certification delivery (ISO, SOC, PCI, UK Cyber Essentials, privacy audits, or similar).
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end technical audit certification programs, including scoping, control mapping, evidence collection, remediation, and auditor engagement.
- Proven track record working closely with infrastructure, platform, SRE, and product engineering teams to implement and operationalize controls.
- Hands-on experience building or driving tooling/automation for evidence collection, testing, or compliance reporting.
- Strong program and project management skills with experience coordinating cross-functional work streams and delivering on time against competing priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting technical compliance status to auditors, engineers, and senior leadership.
- Solid analytical and risk-prioritization skills to sequence remediation activities and make data-driven decisions.
Preferred qualifications include:
- Fintech or payments industry experience (preferred), including familiarity with regulatory expectations, payment platform architectures, and financial services risk models.
- Experience integrating acquired products or systems into an enterprise compliance posture.
- Proven ability to leverage a variety of tools to develop key metrics and broadcast program efficacy through data-driven dashboards.
- Strong background in cloud and infrastructure technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization, and modern platform engineering practices.