Stripe
Head of Partner Strategic Operations, Global Networks
Stripe, New York, New York, us, 10261
Who we areAbout 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
We're helping ambitious startups and the world's most successful companies build products, create new business models, and scale their efforts globally. In pursuit of this mission, the Global Partnerships team is responsible for developing, executing, and managing partnerships and strategic initiatives that enable Stripe's product and payments ecosystem.
We're looking for someone to join the Partnerships team to lead the Global Networks Partner Strategic Operations (PSO) team. The team is responsible for driving new partner implementations and programs and ensuring the efficiency and reliability of new and existing partners. We sit at the intersection of engineers and partners, serving as the fabric that ensures close and smooth collaboration between these parties, both of which are crucial to Stripe's continued rapid growth. We wear a lot of hats. On any given day, you can find us, for example, driving alignment, coordination, and execution between cross-functional teams and partners on critical operational activities; identifying and investigating insights and trends from our data to inform decisions for streamlining the day-to-day management of our business; and building new tools and processes to scale our team's impact. The partners we support have a significant impact on Stripe, and the products from these partnerships are used by millions of our users.What you'll doResponsibilitiesRecruit, develop and lead a team of Partner Operations Managers who work across the Global Networks pillarAlign with Partnerships, Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional leaders to properly meet the operational and technical needs of our Global Networks pillarCollaborate with Product, Engineering, and Partner Managers to develop and execute reliability and SLA strategies to drive operational excellenceDevelop relationships with executive counterparts at key partners and facilitate interaction between our Product and Engineering leaders and their counterparts within partner organizationsBe responsible for meeting and beating Partner Health metricsInspire, motivate and enable development of team members to promote career growth and impact for StripeWho you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.Minimum requirements15+ years of experience in program management, operations, or strategic project management in the payment/fintech industry (banks, networks and/or fintech startups in the payments space)7+ years in management and the ability to hire, train and coach a high-performing team of program managersPrevious experience in or related to the Tech/Startup/Scale-up ecosystemStrong product instincts and ability to identify opportunities for Stripe to leverage partners' existing and in-development products, as well as the ability to collaborate with Stripe's Product and Engineering organization to build world-class features for our usersProven ability to successfully drive medium-to-large sized technical projects with external partners and cross-functional internal stakeholdersAn understanding of product strategy and key requirements for scaling products and operations through partnerships, especially with a "users first" mentalityExcellent verbal and written communication skills - including the ability to speak to different constituencies such as business development, product, engineering, and sales internally and externallyAbility to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguityPreferred qualificationsBasic to intermediate SQL skill
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
We're helping ambitious startups and the world's most successful companies build products, create new business models, and scale their efforts globally. In pursuit of this mission, the Global Partnerships team is responsible for developing, executing, and managing partnerships and strategic initiatives that enable Stripe's product and payments ecosystem.
We're looking for someone to join the Partnerships team to lead the Global Networks Partner Strategic Operations (PSO) team. The team is responsible for driving new partner implementations and programs and ensuring the efficiency and reliability of new and existing partners. We sit at the intersection of engineers and partners, serving as the fabric that ensures close and smooth collaboration between these parties, both of which are crucial to Stripe's continued rapid growth. We wear a lot of hats. On any given day, you can find us, for example, driving alignment, coordination, and execution between cross-functional teams and partners on critical operational activities; identifying and investigating insights and trends from our data to inform decisions for streamlining the day-to-day management of our business; and building new tools and processes to scale our team's impact. The partners we support have a significant impact on Stripe, and the products from these partnerships are used by millions of our users.What you'll doResponsibilitiesRecruit, develop and lead a team of Partner Operations Managers who work across the Global Networks pillarAlign with Partnerships, Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional leaders to properly meet the operational and technical needs of our Global Networks pillarCollaborate with Product, Engineering, and Partner Managers to develop and execute reliability and SLA strategies to drive operational excellenceDevelop relationships with executive counterparts at key partners and facilitate interaction between our Product and Engineering leaders and their counterparts within partner organizationsBe responsible for meeting and beating Partner Health metricsInspire, motivate and enable development of team members to promote career growth and impact for StripeWho you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.Minimum requirements15+ years of experience in program management, operations, or strategic project management in the payment/fintech industry (banks, networks and/or fintech startups in the payments space)7+ years in management and the ability to hire, train and coach a high-performing team of program managersPrevious experience in or related to the Tech/Startup/Scale-up ecosystemStrong product instincts and ability to identify opportunities for Stripe to leverage partners' existing and in-development products, as well as the ability to collaborate with Stripe's Product and Engineering organization to build world-class features for our usersProven ability to successfully drive medium-to-large sized technical projects with external partners and cross-functional internal stakeholdersAn understanding of product strategy and key requirements for scaling products and operations through partnerships, especially with a "users first" mentalityExcellent verbal and written communication skills - including the ability to speak to different constituencies such as business development, product, engineering, and sales internally and externallyAbility to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguityPreferred qualificationsBasic to intermediate SQL skill