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 Stripe’s Customer Success Managers (CSM) oversee the post-sales lifecycle for Stripe users, ensuring they realize the maximum value of their investment. This partnership drives user success, increases retention and expansion, and supports mutually beneficial renewal outcomes. Few roles provide such a direct impact on the growth of the company. What you’ll do We are looking for a motivated and curious professional to manage one of our largest customers. The CSM for our Key Accounts team will deliver proactive workshops, business reviews, payments insights, and thought leadership to help users grow their business. The ideal candidate is analytical and meticulous, and enjoys engaging customers to investigate issues and deliver insights. This role involves working closely with sales, technical account managers, and operations teams to engage customers in product, payment, and technical conversations. Responsibilities Partner closely with account executives and technical account managers to support post-sale engagements focused on the optimization, retention, and growth of Stripe’s enterprise customers Manage a book of customers to drive overall account health including performance, product adoption, usage velocity, account renewals and growth, referrals, and customer satisfaction Serve as a trusted payments and product advisor to managed customers by delivering payment performance and industry insights Perform business re
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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
The Global Payments Performance Team identifies payment optimization opportunities for Stripe’s merchants. We serve a critical role both in demonstrating thought leadership on challenging payment topics, and also partnering with our high-potential merchants to set them up for long term success. We want a partnership with Stripe to be a competitive advantage for our customers, large and small, by providing them with best-in-class technology in concert with insightful and specific advice on how to harness this technology to achieve their business goals.
What you’ll do
The Global Payments Performance team will be responsible for leading data-driven discussions with existing and prospective merchants on optimization strategies across a variety of areas including, card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows to start. You will be instrumental in building our optimisation narratives/tools and delivering on our merchant engagement model. You will also collaborate with Sales, deploying your knowledge to differentiate Stripe to win deals, and partner with our Customer Success organization to ensure that merchants are successful working with Stripe.
Responsibilities
- Lead discussions with existing and prospective merchants, and provide the Sales team with tools and training to lead discussions with merchants and prospects.
- Serve as both an internal and merchant-facing expert on payment optimisation strategies.
- Gather and build on Stripe’s wide-ranging payments expertise to create optimisation narratives/tools supported by rigorous analysis.
- Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimization playbooks and analyses across Stripe’s customer portfolio.
- Synthesise and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe’s product roadmap.
- Provide feedback on our tools and playbooks to help continuously improve our self serve offerings
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- 10+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry.
- Deep expertise in card network costs is required at the acquirer level
- Deep expertise in interchange and scheme fees at the merchant level
- Understanding of e-commerce payments, cards based payments processing and optimization strategies
- Understanding of card network rules and regulations, local payment methods, and the regulatory environment (PSD2/PSD3)
- A proven ability to build collaborative working relationships with cross-functional teams.
- The ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment.
- A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision.
- Experience presenting directly to merchants
- Serve as a subject matter expert providing both internal and customer-facing advisory in the payments domain.
- Develop optimization playbooks and stay updated on industry best practices and Stripe innovations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong data processing, organizational and analytical skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with SQL, dashboard building, modeling, or reporting
- Experience presenting to senior business leaders
What they are looking for
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Stripe
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models and manage money movement.
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