Join Stripe's Infrastructure Finance & Strategy team as a Finance & Strategy Partner to drive financial analysis and support AI investments.
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Demonstrated experience using AI tools (coding agents, skills, forecasting tools) to develop data visualizations and explore datasets.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7–9 years
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Finance & Strategy Partner at Stripe will focus on forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for AI investments, collaborating with various teams to enhance financial systems and metrics. Key skills include a strong background in strategic finance, proficiency with AI tools, and a deep understanding of expense accounting principles. This position is ideal for someone with significant experience in finance, particularly in high-growth tech environments, who can navigate complex analyses and foster cross-functional relationships.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
- Stripe has 576 other open roles including Android Engineer, Dev Productivity, Partner Solutions Architect (AUNZ), Deal Pricing.
- 1841 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 95 active Data Science roles on Joblaze right now.
- 42 active Engineering roles on Joblaze right now.
- Typical AI/ML salary we track runs $145,250–$258,000 (median $190,000, across 1070 roles).
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- 7–9 years of relevant experience for this Finance & Strategy Partner, Central Engineering role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Engineering, Finance, AI/ML, Data Science.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Stripe targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Finance & Strategy Partner, Central Engineering role at Stripe.
From the original posting
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
The Infrastructure Finance and Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe's engineering leadership. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe's R&D investments and operating expenses. We work cross-functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help ensure the durability of our long-term financial performance.
What you'll do
We're looking for a Finance and Strategy Partner to join our growing team. You'll help us with the forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for AI investments, including token spend, engineering headcount, and management tools. You'll collaborate with data science, engineering, and finance teams to deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems and metrics, and help drive our strategies for productivity improvement and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
• Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
• Be your business teams' financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts)
• Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses
• Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Finance Systems, Data Science, and Infrastructure Engineering, to develop reporting dashboards
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification, and reporting enhancements
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
• 7–9 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
• Demonstrated experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget and forecast creation, contract negotiations, headcount envelope management)
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (coding agents, skills, forecasting tools) to develop data visualizations and explore datasets and developing expertise in new tools quickly
• Fluency in AI cost drivers and metrics, including token caching, reads, and writes, model selection principles, and billing frameworks
• Deep understanding of expense accounting principles including accruals, amortization, and capitalization
Preferred qualifications
• Experience working in corporate finance at a high-growth technology company
• Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
• Experience supporting engineering teams
• Experience with Oracle, Anaplan, or similar financial management applications
• Experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar coding agents
• Experience in data visualization and dashboarding
• Background in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or consulting
• Strong knowledge of G Suite tools and extracting, analyzing, and evaluating information from large data sets using SQL and large language models