Startup Partnerships - Y Combinator

What you'll do

In this role you will oversee a portfolio of strategic early-stage accelerator partnerships, including Y Combinator, as we work to educate, attract and retain the most promising startups. You're an energetic and organized self-starter; you understand the product well and can cultivate trusted partnerships with the right players in the ecosystem.

• You're also able to succinctly communicate Stripe's mission and benefits to investors and startups.
• You will be on the front lines for evangelizing our product to prospective users and a key driver of our success with startups.
• You connect dots, constantly soliciting input from users and using that to improve product and GTM strategy.

If you're excited to spend your days interfacing with startup founders and early-stage investors, and find energy in tirelessly helping early-stage founders as they look to start and scale, then we'd love to talk.

Responsibilities

• Oversee our Y 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
• Interest and demonstrated ability to cultivate deep, trust-based partnerships with some of the most consequential venture capitalists

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

• 5+ 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Well-networked individual who is active in the early stage venture capital and startup ecosystem
• Alumni of Y Combinator
• Ability to understand a technical buyer and key moments in their life-cycle where financial infrastructure decisions are made.
• Adept public speaker, presenter and moderator.
• Sales experience, understands channel partnerships and the value this channel brings to a GTM org.
• Strong Data skills - conversant in SQL or Python - and willingness to build tools serve our users and measure business impact.