Technical Account Manager, German Speaking

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · Germany · 4147 Technical Account Management, Support & Services - EMEA

Technical Account Manager for Stripe, focusing on supporting large and complex enterprise clients in German-speaking regions. Responsibilities include providing a Gold Standard Experience, fostering user relationships, implementing operational solutions (fraud, declines, product adoption, global expansion), leading user-facing meetings, and creating user-facing content. Requires strong client-facing experience, product sense, communication skills in English and German, familiarity with APIs and SQL, and technical troubleshooting abilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide a Gold Standard Experience to your assigned accounts’ key stakeholders
  2. 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/feature feedback or development
  3. Foster long term user relationships that grow loyalty to Stripe and Stripe products
  4. 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
  5. Work closely with Customer Success and other user facing teams as part of a larger effort to support users on Stripe

Skills

Required

  • Minimum 3 years experience in enterprise level client-facing work
  • Strong product sense and energized by the challenge of solving difficult user related problems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and German to support regional based customers
  • Ability to lead complex integration conversations in a highly consultative and proactive manner
  • Familiarity with APIs and able to explain API concepts to Stripe’s largest and most technical customers
  • Familiarity with SQL and is comfortable building basic queries and modifying more complex ones
  • Strong technical troubleshooting skills and is comfortable interfacing with technical teams
  • A professional, confident and collaborative personality; an adept client relationship manager, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization

Nice to have

  • Operations savvy mindset, with an ability to identify and eliminate process friction while continuing to build scalable processes
  • Experience practicing in small to medium scale project management
  • Strong organizational skills and self-starting mindset
  • Ideal experience with tools like Postman, xCode, Python, Webhooks, ETL
  • Ideal experience in the payments industry
  • Good to have Polish or Ukrainian language expertise (Native or Intermediate)

What the JD emphasized

  • German
  • English
  • technical troubleshooting
  • API concepts
  • SQL