Partner Development Manager, Ecosystem Partnerships

About this role

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 Ecosystem Partnerships team builds the partner ecosystem that helps users discover, adopt, and get more value from Stripe. We work with a broad range of technology, platform, and ecosystem partners, and collaborate closely with Partner Engineering, Product Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams to bring Stripe’s products to market through partners. What you’ll do As a Partner Development Manager (PDM), you will help manage and grow a long tail of partners that make up the Stripe ecosystem.

You will create and manage the programs, partner tiers, operating rhythms, and enablement needed to support partners at scale - not simply one relationship at a time. You will help partners understand and adopt new Stripe primitives, product capabilities, and integration opportunities. You will turn partner feedback and market context into clear priorities, coordinate cross-functional work, and ensure that partner programs are effective, measurable, and easy to engage with.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building scalable programs, bringing structure to ambiguous work, and enabling many partners to succeed. Responsibilities Manage a broad portfolio of ecosystem partners through scalable programs, tiers, communications, and operating mechanisms. Help design, launch, and operate partner programs that provide clear value to partners and advance Stripe’s ecosystem and product priorities.

Create and maintain partner tiering, engagement models, program criteria, and lifecycle motions that make it easier to prioritize support and scale partner impact. Drive adoption of new Stripe primitives, product capabilities, and partner-facing initiatives across the ecosystem. Develop partner enablement plans and track adoption, engagement, and delivery against defined KPIs. Work closely with Partner Engineering to surface partner integration needs, identify recurring technical or product friction, coordinate enablement, and improve the partner integration experience.