Head of Product

Stephanie has over 20 years of experience as a Product person, the past 15+ years of which has included people management across functions - product managers, user researchers and experience designers, content strategists, product analysts, software and site reliability engineers, and procurement specialists. Stephanie has led teams and leveraged her core strengths to drive innovation and unlock business value through strong user-focused product strategies. From her beginnings as a PM at a tiny stealth startup to her journey across internet media powerhouses such as NY Times & IAC, to her role as a “single threaded leader" overseeing a team of ~50 technologists in the White House, to Amazon’s wildly popular Twitch.tv leading Monetization products and establishing the Platforms product team, and now at Stripe — Stephanie has stepped into teams that were struggling and invigorated people to work together to accomplish incredible feats, such as reducing asylum wait times under a hostile administration, and building a system that permitted almost XX% of “Green Card” renewals to go from a year+ wait to near-instantaneous approval. Stephanie builds empowered high performing teams by developing cohesive product strategies and rallying teams against a user-focused vision. She simplifies process by establishing key mechanisms that allow teams to innovate, such as opportunity assessments and a consistent and collaborative quarterly roadmap planning framework, which together often creates a quantum leap in how the team thinks about creating value for our users.