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10 Stripe product leaders
These ten people lead or have led product teams at Stripe, from its president of product and business to heads of product for specific product lines and regions. A reader can learn how Stripe sets product strategy, organizes product management and decides what to build for its users.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abhinav Tiwari
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Global · Stripe
Head of Product, Global at Stripe since January 2026, based in Singapore, and Head of Product, Optimized Checkout Suite at Stripe from 2022 to 2026. He was Director, Product Management and Technology, Multi Channel Fulfillment and Distribution at Amazon (2020–2022) and Head of Product and Technology, FBA New Products at Amazon (2018–2020).
Bart H.
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product - Payouts, FX & Marketplaces · Stripe
Head of Product - Payouts, FX & Marketplaces at Stripe since September 2025, leading a multi-team product management organization for Stripe's payouts, FX and marketplaces portfolio, per the profile. Other Stripe roles listed are Product Lead - Payouts and FX (2024–2025), Product Manager - Payouts (2023–2024) and Product Manager - Payment Methods (2021–2022).
Harsha Dante
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Stripe Network · Stripe
Head of Product, Stripe Network at Stripe since January 2025. Harsha Dante's other Stripe roles are Head of Stripe Capital (2022–2025), Product Lead, Stripe Capital (2020–2022) and Business Development and Partnerships (2017–2020), with the Product Lead role listed at head level in the product department.
Jon Byrum
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product - Developer Platform · Stripe
Head of Product - Developer Platform at Stripe since November 2020. He was Senior Director of Product Management - Runtime at Heroku from 2016 to 2020 and worked on Google Cloud Platform at Google from 2014 to 2016. He was also President & Co-Founder of Hello Scheduling (2010–2014).
Josh Ackerman
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Radar · Stripe
Head of Product, Radar at Stripe since September 2023, leading a team of AI product managers building Radar and setting product and business direction, including the underlying ML models, per the profile. His other Stripe roles are Product Lead, Payment Surfaces & APIs (2020–2023) and Product Manager, Stripe Connect (2018–2020).
Sophie Sakellariadis
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product for Payment APIs, Money Movement & Storage · Stripe
Head of Product for Payment APIs, Money Movement & Storage at Stripe since March 2024, a role her profile headline also describes as head of product for stablecoins and money movement. Her other Stripe roles include Product Lead, Payment Methods (2021–2024), Product Manager, Payments Infrastructure (since 2019) and Product Manager, APAC (2018–2019).
Stephanie J. Neill
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product · Stripe
Head of Product at Stripe since 2024. Her profile headline describes her work as building AI-era financial infrastructure and lists her as a former Amazon VP Product, alongside the White House Digital Service. She has been a board member at The CPO Club and at Products That Count since 2023.
Steven Lin
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product, Risk & Decisioning · Stripe
Former Director of Product, Risk & Decisioning at Stripe (2020–2023), where his profile says he defined a multi-year strategy for real-time risk decisioning, balancing fraud prevention with global payment flows, and unified data pipelines and model governance. He was Product Manager, Financial Data Platforms at Goldman Sachs (2017–2020).
Valerie Wagoner
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, APAC & Global · Stripe
Former Head of Product, APAC & Global at Stripe (2021–2025), where her profile says she was GM of Stripe's Asia Pacific region and led product strategy, roadmap execution and the full P&L. In the same period she was Chief Executive Officer & Board Director of Stripe Singapore and of Stripe Malaysia.
William Gaybrick
LinkedInExperience: President, Product & Business · Stripe
President, Product & Business at Stripe since February 2023. His other Stripe roles include Chief Product Officer (2021–2023), Chief Product Officer, Head of Payments (2020–2021), Chief Product Officer, Head of Payments, Chief Financial Officer (2018–2020) and Chief Financial Officer (2015–2018).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's product area to your question, since payments APIs, fraud and risk, money movement and regional product teams face different trade-offs. Check whether the person's Stripe role is current or past, and favor a current head of product for questions about today's roadmap.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Stripe decide which new products or markets to invest in, and who makes that call?
- 02How are product teams split between core payments, risk, money movement and regional product groups?
- 03How does Stripe gather feedback from developers and large customers and turn it into product priorities?
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