Strategic Partner Lead

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 Global Sales Enablement is responsible for driving productivity and effectiveness across Stripe's go-to-market organization. Our team designs and runs programs that equip account teams with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to excel—covering Stripe's product suite, sales processes, and selling skills. We support user-facing go-to-market teams and their managers across the globe. This role supports Stripe's product account executives—a specialist sales motion built around deep expertise across three product pillars—Revenue, Money Management, and Payments. Product account executives own end-to-end pipeline for specific product areas, working in close coordination with core account executives who anchor the customer relationship. Each team operates with a distinct product set, buyer profile, and sales motion, meaning their enablement needs vary significantly and demand a dedicated, expert partner. WHAT YOU’LL DO You'll act as a true strategic partner to product account executive leadership—proposing programs, staying deeply embedded with Product and Product Operations to anticipate what the field needs ahead of each launch, and building the systems that let enablement scale as the organization grows. RESPONSIBILITIES * Partner with product sales leadership to define and execute a strategic vision for enablement across Stripe's product sales organization * Scope, build, and continuously improve onboarding and ongoing training programs tailored to the unique requirements of each product sales role * Stay embedded with Product and Product Operations teams to understand Stripe's evolving product suite, anticipate upcoming releases, and ensure the field is ready before launch * Create and facilitate enablement content in partnership with subject matter experts, translating technical product knowledge and solution architectures into practical, scalable resources * Identify skill and knowledge gaps across product sales teams, then design programs that drive measurable improvements in productivity, expertise, and revenue * Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and executives to align learning experiences with business goals and performance outcomes * Track enablement impact and use data to make informed decisions about where to invest next 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 * 5+ years of experience in sales enablement, with a focus on specialist or technical sales roles at a global technology or high-growth company * Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into accessible content for a sales audience * Proven track record of designing and delivering enablement programs that produce measurable improvements in sales performance * Strong project management and communication skills, with experience presenting to and influencing senior executives as well as technical and non-technical stakeholders * Demonstrated ability to operate cross-functionally and build productive relationships across a large organization PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience operating in a global, virtual environment across multiple time zones * Background in content creation, curation, or knowledge management platforms * Experience navigating ambiguity and building scalable solutions in a fast-changing environment

Figma

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As a Customer Enablement Manager, you’ll work directly with some of our largest customers to help them get the most value from the Figma platform. You'll design and deliver tailored enablement strategies that drive product adoption, help uncover new use cases, and support long-term success. In this highly collaborative role, you’ll partner with various internal teams, such as Account Executives, Onboarding Managers, Technical Account Managers, and Industry Advocates, to deliver a seamless and impactful customer experience and create thoughtful, engaging experiences for our customers. Your ability to build strong relationships, connect the dots between product features and customer goals, and communicate with clarity will make you a trusted advisor and strategic partner. If you’re passionate about helping customers thrive, enjoy solving complex problems, and love working at the intersection of product and customer success, we’d love to meet you. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. WHAT YOU’LL DO AT FIGMA: * Manage the adoption journey for a portfolio of large, strategic customers * Understand customer goals and success metrics, and use product data to inform proactive engagement strategies that lead to measurable value delivery * Document proactive engagement strategies as part of high quality, bespoke enablement plans * Share best practices, use cases, and product expertise to help teams unlock the full value of Figma * Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across roles and departments—from individual contributors to senior leaders * Identify and empower internal champions who can advocate for Figma within their organizations * Collaborate with Account Executives on account reviews, expansion opportunities, and renewal risk migration * Deliver live and scalable training sessions customized to customer maturity and needs * Partner cross-functionally with Onboarding Managers, Technical Account Managers, Solutions Consultants, and Industry Advocates to ensure customer success WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE: * 4+ years of experience in Technical Account Management, Technical Customer Success, Customer Success, Customer Enablement, Account Management or a relevant customer-facing role in SaaS * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect with a wide range of customer personas * Strong product knowledge and a customer-first, consultative approach to solving challenges and driving adoption * A track record of driving impactful outcomes, adapting to evolving customer needs, and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams WHILE NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE: * Experience using Figma or working with design and collaboration tools * Background in UX/UI, Design Ops, or Frontend Development At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.   #LI-KD4 Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.     Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.  Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Annual Base Salary Range: $127,000—$269,000 USD At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.  Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:  * Holding interviews in an accessible location * Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing * Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers * Changing the mode or format of interviews  To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding. By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Pinterest

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. Pinterest's Business Marketing team is seeking a highly operational Director, Partner Marketing to lead advertiser marketing via Pinterest's third-party partnerships, develop comarketing strategies with key partners and ultimately contribute to Pinterest's revenue goals. This role is highly operational in nature, with a strong focus on designing a growing organization, aligning with cross-functional partners on roles, responsibilities, and ways of working, and partnering with senior leadership to further develop Pinterest's partner marketing capability. You will provide senior leadership for a small and mighty team already in place, and as a player-coach, you will lead key partner marketing workstreams while simultaneously setting the vision, managing resources, and developing the capabilities of your team. What you’ll do: * Vision and Strategy: Architect a long-term vision for the partner marketing function at Pinterest in partnership with XFN teams. * Player-Coach Execution: Roll up your sleeves to lead key partner marketing workstreams, including events, webinars and content marketing campaigns to increase consideration for Pinterest’s advertising solutions and ultimately drive revenue. * Team Leadership and Talent Development: Create a culture that emphasizes constructive feedback, ongoing learning and development, and reinforces its value to the organization. * Operational Rigor and Accountability: Build tracking mechanisms that create an environment of accountability for the working team's progression. Integrate velocity within the function by mobilizing the organization, removing obstacles, and enabling teams to focus on achieving high-quality results for the most important initiatives. * Organizational Design and Capability Building: Project and plan for resourcing needs and recruit where necessary to deliver results and meet functional short-term and long-term strategic goals. Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging talent needs of a function. * Cross-Functional Alignment and Influencing: Collaborate and influence senior-level cross-functional partners on complex business challenges. Lead the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies and plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders and create mutually supportive working relationships. * AI-Powered Marketing Execution: Leverage AI tools to accelerate the development of partner marketing assets, including event materials, webinar content, and co-marketing campaigns. Act as an AI champion within the team by proactively testing and adopting emerging tools that drive efficiency, reduce production timelines, and free up bandwidth for higher-order strategic work. * Data-Driven Optimization Through AI: Utilize AI-assisted analytics and reporting tools to surface insights on partner marketing performance, identify trends across campaigns and channels, and make faster, smarter decisions about where to invest resources. Build a team culture that treats AI as a core working partner in the planning and measurement process. What we’re looking for: * 15+ years of experience in business marketing, with at least 7 years of experience specifically in a partner marketing leadership role, ideally at a similar or competitive platform to Pinterest.We are looking for someone with direct experience marketing to advertisers via partners in the campaign management, measurement, commerce and programmatic spaces. * Operational and Leadership Mindset: Proven experience building program functions, growing teams and creating strategy through ambiguity. * Mastery in Influencing: Demonstrates mastery in changing or affecting the actions, behaviors, or perspectives of others without directly forcing those changes to happen. * Mature Decision Quality: Moves the function forward through a mature decision-making process by gathering and circulating data with key partners, weighing alternatives explicitly, and considering risks. Willingly makes tough decisions and difficult trade-offs on behalf of the business. * Comfort with Ambiguity: Navigates uncertain situations and provides direction and frameworks to the function that minimize delay. Effectively manages the stress that accompanies transitions and change and helps others adapt productively. * Values Differences: Sponsors and mentors people from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Fosters a culture that encourages and supports inclusion and belonging, and applies understanding of differences to create value for the function. * AI Fluency and Adaptability: Demonstrated comfort and curiosity working with AI tools in a marketing context, with a proactive mindset toward exploring how emerging technologies can improve team output, campaign performance, and operational workflows. Ability to coach and inspire a team to embrace AI as a collaborative partner rather than a replacement, fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and innovation. * Bachelor’s degree in marketing, a related field, or equivalent experience.   Relocation Statement: * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.   In-Office Requirement Statement:  * We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role. * This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.    #LI-AKEO #LI-REMOTE At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $178,561—$367,626 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.   By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.