Stripe's Payments Intelligence team optimizes billions of dollars in annual payment volume — reducing fraud, lifting authorization rates, and lowering cost for merchants. That work demands a PM who has shipped these systems, not just studied them.
Submitted by Branden Beardsley — currently Payments Performance Manager at Adyen, advising enterprise merchants on authorization optimization, risk stack performance, and global checkout strategy. Founder, Cellix.ai.
Each of Stripe's stated requirements for the PM, Payments Intelligence role — with the specific work that answers it.
Each case is framed around the challenge Stripe's Payments Intelligence team faces — with the work that demonstrates it's been done before.
Enterprise merchants with multi-processor stacks demand proof before switching. Adyen's Uplift product — like Stripe's Authorization Boost — only lands if the PM can design rigorous A/B tests against competing processors and turn the results into commercial decisions. This is the current day-to-day at Adyen.
Paze launched competing with PayPal and Apple Pay with zero fraud risk infrastructure — no rules, no vendor stack, no ML signals. The challenge was identical to what Stripe faces when standing up a new risk product: build it right, ship it fast, and prove it works in production.
Card network compliance programs expose merchants to millions in annual fines when dispute rates cross thresholds. Radar's dispute management and Visa CE3.0 features sit in exactly this problem space — and managing 500+ enterprise merchants through it requires operational depth that's rare.
Cellix.ai is a live, production AI payment intelligence platform — dispute automation, fraud prevention, and processor optimization across 27+ integrations. It's what happens when a Payments Intelligence PM builds their own version of the problem.
Automates dispute investigations end-to-end — compiling evidence to Visa CE3.0 and Mastercard specs, submitting via processor APIs, and running fraud prevention across the stack. Built using Claude Code and Anthropic APIs. Stripe integration is live.
Each competency Stripe's job description calls for, mapped to the direct experience that covers it.