Role Description We are looking for a Policy Development & Strategy professional to lead the design, coordination, and execution of our cross-functional working group model. We are formalizing and streamlining coordination between Policy and product and business teams, and this person will be the connective tissue that makes it work — driving alignment between policy priorities and business strategy across the company. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role requiring someone who is equally comfortable in a room with product engineers and senior policy leaders, and who can translate between policy risk and business opportunity with fluency and credibility. The ideal candidate brings substantive expertise in payments policy, combined with the organizational horsepower to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams at scale. We are looking for someone who is equally passionate about policy and business, brings sharp analytical instincts, genuine curiosity about how products and markets work, and the drive to build something that doesn't yet exist.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the operating model connecting Stripe's Policy team to its product and business counterparts.
• Stay current on Stripe's product portfolio and roadmap across payments, stablecoins, financial services, and AI.
• Partner with Policy leadership, Government Relations leads, and subject matter experts to develop issue positions.
• Translate complex policy and product issues into clear, compelling materials.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across Product, Business, Legal, and Finance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in policy, regulatory affairs, government relations, or a related field, with significant exposure to payments and/or digital assets.
• Strong knowledge of the payments ecosystem, stablecoins and digital assets, financial crimes and risk policy.
• Familiarity with emerging AI and agentic commerce policy issues.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams.
• Ability to synthesize regulatory developments into clear, actionable implications for product and business strategy.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple forums and workstreams simultaneously.
• Genuinely excited to understand how products work and how policy creates or removes business value.