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Product Manager, Identity & Access Management

Stripe · Remote · 8566 Developer Platform - PM

Posted Sep 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a platform product you managed where your users were other engineering teams.

What they are checking: Whether they know how to serve internal customers and say no to one-off requests.

Tell me about a time you made a product decision with security and usability pulling in opposite directions.

What they are checking: Whether they can make and defend a trade-off rather than pushing the problem to someone else.

What would you do

You're building a fine-grained permissions model that every Stripe product will depend on. How do you get dozens of teams to adopt it?

What they are checking: Whether they can drive platform adoption through good design, migration plans and influence.

A large customer asks for a custom role that would complicate the permissions model for everyone. How do you respond?

What they are checking: Whether they protect the platform's long-term simplicity while still solving the customer's need.

How would you work with outside AI labs on standards like MCP while still shipping for Stripe's users?

What they are checking: Whether they can contribute to evolving industry protocols without stalling their own roadmap.

About the work

How would you model an AI agent's permissions when it sometimes acts for a person and sometimes acts on its own?

What they are checking: Whether they can reason about identity principals and delegation in a problem that is still unsolved.

A business wants to let an agent run a whole workflow instead of approving each step. How would you design authorization for that?

What they are checking: Whether they can balance convenience with control and auditability for automated actors.

How would you decide what access controls to show in the Dashboard versus expose through the API, CLI or MCP?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that different surfaces have different users and risks.

How would you measure whether an identity product is making businesses more secure?

What they are checking: Whether they can pick outcome metrics in a space where success is often invisible.

What could go wrong if an API key or agent credential is too broadly scoped, and how would you design against it?

What they are checking: Whether they think concretely about least privilege and the damage a leaked credential can do.

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The full job description

As published by Stripe.

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 IAM is the nerve center of Stripe. We control how millions of businesses grant access to their account, including employees, AI agents, apps, and API integrations, across the Dashboard, API, CLI, and MCP. We're also a platform team, building the unified, fine-grained permissions model that every product at Stripe builds on. AI agents are changing how businesses operate, and how they get authorized, governed, and secured is being defined right now—largely by us. We’re tackling challenging and unsolved problems for real businesses, like how to model agents when they blur the line between acting on behalf of a human vs. standalone principals, or how to authorize entire agent workflows rather than step-by-step actions. We’re collaborating directly with the frontier AI labs on the evolution of MCP, new identity protocols, and agent integrations. We build for solo founders and Fortune 500s alike, and the tension between those two is where the real product work lives. What you’ll do You'll set the vision and drive the roadmap for how every principal, human, agent, or app, gets access to a Stripe account. You'll do it by talking directly to the founders, admins, and developers who use it. • Design the experience of granting access, everywhere. Signing up, inviting a teammate, creating an API key, authorizing an agent or a third-party app. • Design for agents specifically. Design for agents as a new principal within Stripe, including how they authenticate, what they're allowed to do, and how businesses stay in control, including approvals and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for actions involving real money. You're defining an experience that will set the industry standard.  • Drive least privilege, made easy. Take holistic ownership across Stripe to ensure that every user, app and agent has only the permissions it requires. Build custom roles, smart permission defaults, and permission recommendations based on real API usage to make least-privilege authorization easy rather than tedious.  • Push toward a world without secrets. Make secretless authentication (Workload Identity Federation) the default way developers integrate with Stripe to prevent emerging security threats from increasingly sophisticated and AI-powered attackers.  • Partner across all of Stripe. Pitch an ambitious vision, then get teams across Dashboard, API Platform, Security, Payments and Money Movement genuinely excited to build it with you. Who you are The hardest part of this job, and the most fun, is the constant trade-off: usability vs. security, flexibility vs. simplicity. It takes taste to find a shape that feels effortless for a solo founder and holds up at Fortune 500 scale. Minimum requirements • 5+ years in PM, shipping platform or infrastructure products that other teams build on • Background in security, identity, auth, or developer platforms, or serious curiosity about the space • A habit of talking to users to find the real problem, not the reported one • Technical fluency to go deep with engineers on authorization and authentication design • A bias toward experimentation over big-bang launches • Comfort setting direction in a space that's still being invented, across teams you don't manage

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