Operations Manager, Center of Excellence

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · India · 4130 Technical Account Management, Support & Services - AMER

Stripe's Center of Excellence (CoE) Operations Manager will lead the Technical Account Management (TAM) function, focusing on scalable, high-quality service delivery. This role involves managing contributors, overseeing operational workstreams like onboarding and account reviews, and identifying automation opportunities to improve efficiency. The position requires a builder mindset, strong operational execution, and stakeholder management within a fintech environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the Technical Account Management function within the Center of Excellence by recruiting, coaching, establishing goals, and managing performance for TAM aligned contributors.
  2. Oversee intake, prioritization, service level agreements, and delivery across TAM-focused operational workstreams, including onboarding support, account reviews, operational assessments, verification processes, optimization initiatives, and other technical servicing requests.
  3. Design and institutionalize scalable operational processes, playbooks, and quality standards that reduce administrative burdens for frontline teams and enhance the consistency of deliverables.
  4. Drive day-to-day operational execution by coordinating cross-functional work, removing obstacles, ensuring accountability, and delivering timely, high-quality outputs.
  5. Collaborate closely with Technical Account Management, Customer Success Management, Product, Engineering, and Data teams to standardize handoffs, resolve technical constraints, and scope automation initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • 12 years of professional experience leading Technical Account Management, technical customer success, or technical operations functions supporting enterprise customers, or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years in people leadership or managerial roles.
  • Strong operational execution capability with a proven history of managing day-to-day delivery, establishing service levels, and implementing scalable, repeatable processes.
  • A builder mindset with hands-on experience in automation, tooling, or process engineering, alongside the ability to scope and drive pragmatic engineering or low-code solutions in partnership with technical teams.
  • Comfort in operating within ambiguity with the ability to prioritize effectively, make decisions with incomplete data, and break down complex problems into actionable plans.
  • Robust stakeholder management experience, collaborating with customer-facing teams, product, engineering, and data organizations.
  • Data-informed leadership with experience utilizing metrics and dashboards to drive prioritization and measure impact.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear operational documentation and present progress to leadership.

Nice to have

  • Experience in payments, software as a service platforms, or similarly complex technical product environments.
  • Hands-on experience supporting enterprise onboarding, account-level analytics, or business reviews.

What the JD emphasized

  • builder mindset
  • automation
  • scalable outcomes
  • operational rigor
  • automation opportunities
  • builder mindset
  • automation
  • tooling
  • pragmatic experiments
  • scale into production solutions
  • metrics and dashboards
  • ambiguous environments
  • pragmatic trade-offs
  • decomposing complex problems
  • clear recommendations