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Strategy & Operations Business Partner, Customer Success

Stripe · Chicago, US · On-site

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

The near-term focus of this role is on evolving and scaling the foundations of the Customer Success business. This includes strengthening operating models, processes, business cadences, systems, and reporting infrastructure to support a growing and increasingly specialized organization. As a key business partner, you’ll measure and analyze performance, develop forecasts and dashboards, and lead data-informed process improvements that help the CS team operate more efficiently and deliver greater customer impact.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of work experience, with a significant portion in strategic / operational roles at high-growth tech companies or consulting
  • High comfort with ambiguity—you take an undefined operational problem, scope it, design a solution, and drive it to completion with minimal oversight
  • Experience with and holding a high bar across operational design, strategic planning, and reporting
  • You are comfortable working independently with minimal oversight while holding yourself accountable to deadlines
  • Experience working cross functionally with senior stakeholders. You're comfortable bringing an independent and opinionated perspective
  • Technical proficiency in AI tools in order to automate workflows as needed
More about this role

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.

The Customer Success team oversees 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 teams provide such a direct impact on the growth of the company.

The Customer Success Strategy & Operations team sits at the center of how Customer Success operates at Stripe. This role shapes both the function’s day-to-day operating model—from leadership forums and territory and compensation design to the systems and cadences that enable execution—and its long-term direction. You will lead annual planning, OKR development, and...

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