Customer Success Manager

About the role

You will become a trusted advisor to these customers, will deeply understand their business and their needs, and help them maximize the value they get from Stripe. This role involves working closely with the user account team, senior executives and engaging in product, payments, and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization.

What you'll do

• Lead the post-sale engagement, retention, and growth of your customers, partnering closely with the Account Executive
• Support expansion of your accounts - identify opportunities, drive business outcomes, ensure customers are successful in partnership with the account team
• Build and foster relationships with senior executives in business, product, engineering, finance, and IT in partnership with the Account Executive and team
• Evangelize Stripe customer success stories and customer success systems and processes
• Articulate and drive customer use cases, customer value and expansion while maintaining trusted customer advisor status
• Serve as a trusted payments and commerce advisor to the customer and educate them on the use and benefits of our products and our industry
• Perform business reviews to align on business priorities, Stripe product roadmap, review services satisfaction, share usage patterns or insights, surface issues, provide guidance on how to optimize the value from Stripe, and identify product expansion opportunities
• Advocate for the customer to internal stakeholders. Share customer feedback and insights to Product Management, Engineering, Support, Marketing, and Sales on the innovation and improvement needed to optimize the Stripe user experience

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in a client-facing role ideally customer success, managing relationships with large, global, and complex organizations, preferably working with a technical product
• Strong analytical skills and operating rigor
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
• History of success as a consultant, pre-sales, technical account management, or equivalent
• Experience building comprehensive account plans
• Proven track record of achieving targets and goals, preferably in a sales setting
• Track record of managing large, complex projects and/or programs
• Experience handling difficult customers or situations and can demonstrate resolutions

Nice to have

• Sophisticated business sense and understanding of underlying drivers and strategy of our user's businesses
• Track record of leading technical conversations and persuading others to take action based on requirements and value provided by solutions
• Willingness to tackle things on your own
• A capability to work well with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
• The motivation and flexibility to work well in a high-growth environment where things change quickly