# Startup Partnerships - Y Combinator

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Description

We're looking for someone to oversee a portfolio of strategic early-stage accelerator partnerships, including Y Combinator, as we work to educate, attract and retain the most promising startups.

### Responsibilities

- Oversee our YC Combinator and other accelerator partnerships

- Work across the business to ensure that every founder's experience of Stripe is surprisingly delightful

- Build out and oversee the execution of key programs

- Spin up new initiatives that add continuous value to the Y Combinator ecosystem

- Serve as a point of escalation for partners and top startups to grow Stripe’s brand within the Y Combinator ecosystem

- Maintain a product feedback loop to internal teams to ensure that we continue to build for the highest potential businesses

- Work cross functionally with key internal stakeholders to advance strategic Stripe initiatives for startup founders

- Collate startup ecosystem insights and prepare weekly / quarterly updates detailing business progress, market trends, and product feedback gathered from startup engagement

- Represent Stripe in the startup ecosystem and take up speaking opportunities at key startup events that bolster Stripe as the best platform for founders to start and scale

- Leverage your data prowess (SQL, etc) to build out tools that enable us to better serve founders and demonstrate impact

### Requirements

- 7+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem with startup or investing experience

- Experienced business or technical founder with a passion for helping other founders

- Strong understanding of the startup ecosystem, founder empathy, and ability to build strong partnerships, particularly within the Y Combinator community

- A user-first mindset, anything less than perfect is unacceptable to you

- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to get new programming off the ground

- You’re a builder by nature and are excited to launch new initiatives within Stripe that extend surprisingly delightful experiences to best in class founders

- Strong verbal and written communications skills

- Hunger and motivation to operate (and thrive) in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment

- Humility, and who takes initiative with a “no task is too small” and “I’ll get it done” attitude

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- partnership management
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- public speaking
- data analysis
- venture capital experience
- Y Combinator alumni

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