Payments Performance Strategist, Network Cost

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 1342 Payment Performance

Stripe's Global Payments Performance Team is seeking a Payments Performance Strategist to identify and drive payment optimization opportunities for merchants, focusing on areas like card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows. This role involves building optimization narratives and tools, collaborating with Sales and Customer Success, and serving as a subject matter expert on payment optimization strategies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead discussions with existing and prospective merchants, and provide the Sales team with tools and training to lead discussions with merchants and prospects.
  2. Serve as both an internal and merchant-facing expert on payment optimisation strategies.
  3. Gather and build on Stripe’s wide-ranging payments expertise to create optimisation narratives/tools supported by rigorous analysis.
  4. Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimization playbooks and analyses across Stripe’s customer portfolio.
  5. Synthesise and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe’s product roadmap.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry
  • Deep expertise in card network costs at the acquirer level
  • Deep expertise in interchange and scheme fees at the merchant level
  • Understanding of e-commerce payments, cards based payments processing and optimization strategies
  • Understanding of card network rules and regulations, local payment methods, and the regulatory environment (PSD2/PSD3)
  • Proven ability to build collaborative working relationships with cross-functional teams
  • Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  • Proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
  • Experience presenting directly to merchants
  • Serve as a subject matter expert providing both internal and customer-facing advisory in the payments domain
  • Develop optimization playbooks and stay updated on industry best practices and Stripe innovations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong data processing, organizational and analytical skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with SQL, dashboard building, modeling, or reporting
  • Experience presenting to senior business leaders

What the JD emphasized

  • Deep expertise in card network costs is required at the acquirer level
  • Deep expertise in interchange and scheme fees at the merchant level