Manager, TAM (Greater China)

Stripe

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 Technical Account Managers work cross-functionally to support the largest and most complex Stripe users. Through trusted relationships, we offer customized, strategic consultations and proactively identify opportunity areas to help businesses deliver more value to their customers, optimize technical operations on their teams, and accelerate their global growth with Stripe. WHAT YOU'LL DO RESPONSIBILITIES * Provide a Gold Standard Experience to your assigned accounts' key stakeholders * Work with the wider Operations team to provide current state, resources, and knowledge to enable Gold Standard Experience across teams interacting directly with the user via support channels, external documentation, or product and feature feedback or development * Foster long-term user relationships that grow loyalty to Stripe and Stripe products * Work cross-functionally both internally and within your user's organizations to provide and implement operational solutions on subjects not limited to fraud, disputes, declines, product adoption, and global expansion * Work closely with Customer Success and other user-facing teams as part of a larger effort to support users on Stripe * Lead user-facing meetings both in person and through video chat * Collaborate on the continued design of this support offering * Create user-facing content for long-term solutions WHO 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 REQUIREMENTS * Minimum 3 years of experience in enterprise-level client-facing work in the GCN region * Fluent business level Chinese * Strong product sense and a drive to solve difficult, user-related problems * Strong written and verbal communication skills in English * Ability to lead complex integration conversations in a highly consultative and proactive manner * Familiarity with APIs and ability to explain API concepts to the largest and most technical Stripe customers * Familiarity with SQL and the ability to build basic queries and modify more complex ones * Strong technical troubleshooting skills and comfort interfacing with technical teams * A professional, confident, and collaborative personality as an adept client relationship manager, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * An operations-savvy mindset, with the ability to identify and eliminate process friction while continuing to build scalable processes * Experience in small-to-medium-scale project management * Strong organizational skills and self-starting mindset * Experience with tools like Postman, Xcode, Python, Webhooks, and ETL * Experience in the payments industry

Stripe

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 Enterprise Product Support team directly supports our largest and fastest-growing users, partnering with them to grow their business. We actively seek and capitalize on opportunities to meet and exceed their service expectations, working to impress the trendsetters and remove obstacles from their path. The team is there when users need us but also there proactively — before they even realize they need support. WHAT YOU'LL DO The Enterprise Product Support team is growing to support Stripe users for the next decade. We are looking for dynamic and curious people who have a passion for solving global user issues, building operations, and driving process improvements, and who want to play a front-line role in building this new operational capability for Stripe and accelerating Stripe's growth. In this role, you will recruit, manage, and develop a group of Operations Associates who are focused on supporting Stripe's Enterprise users. You will cultivate the happiness of your team members while guiding them to be the best they can be, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and advocacy within the organization. This means helping to set team goals, and using metrics to efficiently measure and guide team performance in pursuit of those goals. To be a fit, you will have a strong operations mindset, be able to move quickly, and be passionate about delivering an incredible user experience. RESPONSIBILITIES • Guide the organization to design and deliver incredible user experiences globally and in the Asia-Pacific region. • Recruit, manage, coach, and develop a team of Enterprise Support Specialists. • Drive strong operational delivery and process improvement, helping to mitigate risk while balancing operational efficiency and user impact. • Identify gaps in current systems, policies, and strategies, and recommend enhancements and process improvements to mitigate risks. • Build a great culture and ensure team members are happy, effective, and growing in their careers. • Set clear goals and direction, and provide regular feedback on team members' performance. • Be data-driven in your analysis of performance, and in your decision-making. • Transmit and foster our values, serving as a beacon of Stripe's user-centric philosophy and culture of transparency, empathy, inclusion, and empowerment. WHO 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 REQUIREMENTS • 8+ years of experience leading operations support teams. • Experience working cross-functionally with multiple teams to deliver high-impact initiatives. • Experience in delivering weekly and monthly business metrics and reporting. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • An ability to partner effectively with internal stakeholders. • Background of identifying and remediating quality gaps in team performance. • Passion for process improvement and innovation. • Ability to periodically work a weekend day for which you will receive a weekday off. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Experience in building and scaling support teams. • Experience in expanding vernacular language operations. • Strong operational background including experience with new process launches and service delivery in a high-growth technology company.

Stripe

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 Technical Account Management (TAM) team directly supports our largest and fastest-growing paid users. We provide proactive consultation, best-practice guidance, and ongoing managed services to optimize and accelerate our users' business. We pursue excellence in user service, aiming to consistently exceed expectations. WHAT YOU'LL DO Stripe is looking for an EMEA-based leader to mentor, lead, and grow Stripes within Technical Account Management (TAM). This manager will lead an established group of high-performing Stripes working predominantly with top Platform and direct merchants across EMEA. This manager's day-to-day interactions with the team will cultivate a high-performance environment, define and implement cross-functional solutions at scale, lead through user challenges, and provide continual mentorship and feedback. In addition, this manager will work cross-functionally to drive operational programs to elevate Stripe's level of service and support through setting strategy, defining clear goals, and determining prioritization with data and user feedback. RESPONSIBILITIES * Partner with the TAM leadership to shape the strategy for Stripe's largest segment and most complex engagements * Lead a team of technical account managers working with Stripe's largest users * Partner cross-functionally with GTM, CSM, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and Solution Architects to deliver end-to-end solutions for EMEA platforms and other segment top users * Hire and retain top technical talent as the team scales * Guide the TAM organization to deliver outstanding service experiences, grow services revenue, and contribute to strategic programs * Ensure that team members are happy, effective, and growing in their career and user work * Set clear goals and direction for the team and each individual, and provide regular feedback on your team members' performance * Analyze data from user feedback and experiences to drive efficiency and build quality * Be an advocate for Stripe users and champion for users' needs internally * Transmit and foster our values, serving as a beacon of Stripe's user-centric philosophy and culture of transparency, empathy, inclusion, and empowerment * Help build the organization through management projects such as recruiting, training, writing team policies, defining team processes, or other organizational improvements WHO 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 REQUIREMENTS * 7+ years of experience in professional services, customer success, solutions architecture, or technical account management programs * 3+ years of people management experience, leading senior technical ICs * Experience working with strategic accounts * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * An ability to build trust with users, setting a high bar for quality, with a willingness to lead by example PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience with fintech SaaS products and Payments industry * Experience leading growth initiatives (through driving sales revenue and elevating operational service) with a winning track record * Proven ability to scale a technical services or technical support team in a high-growth environment