Customer Success Leader (Greater China)

Stripe
Singapore
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Customer success leaders with enterprise account management experience and a track record of scaling teams will find this leadership role in the Greater China region rewarding.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in scaling enterprise sales or account management teams in high-growth environments
    — “Ideal candidates will have management and leadership experience scaling a technology sales or account management team
  • Individuals who have worked with large, complex users and can provide executive-level support
    — “Ability to support the Customer Success Managers’ efforts through strategic advice on account strategies, and serving as executive sponsor with key relationships
  • Experienced professionals with a proven ability to lead and coach high-performing teams
    — “Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance Customer Success team

Things to consider

  • The role requires direct travel to the Greater China region to engage with enterprise clients.
    — “Travel to Greater China to build interactions and relationships with our users.
  • There is a clear expectation for managing day-to-day operations and delivering on ambitious targets.
    — “Be accountable for increasing revenue, managing day-to-day operations, and scaling the team

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in leading teams through high-growth and ambiguous environments.
    — “we are looking for a self-starter who has demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment
  • Emphasize your ability to coach and mentor teams in consultative and solution-based approaches.
    — “Coach, mentor, and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based customer success and sales skills
  • Showcase your experience in shaping technology solutions to meet complex client needs.
    — “Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • recruited and trained customer success managers
  • developed customer success strategies
  • increased revenue
Typical background
customer success managementaccount managementsales experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic PlanningCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

Payments ExperienceInternet/software Company Experience

Stack & domain

LeadershipCommunication

About the role

Original posting from 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

Our users are the heart of our business. Stripe’s Global Customer Success Team is responsible for managing our largest and most strategic relationships, such as Bytedance, Canva, and Shopify. In this manager role you’ll be responsible for a high-performing team of Customer Success Managers covering the Greater China Region. You’ll lead and coach the team, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with executives at existing enterprise Stripe customers.

We are looking for a self-starter who has demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment, and solving complicated problems with limited oversight. Ideal candidates will have management and leadership experience scaling a technology sales or account management team, superior communication skills, and a knack for understanding unique customer needs.

What you’ll do

We are seeking a Manager to lead a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers to build and grow the relationships with our most complex users from the Greater China region.  

You will:

Recruit, train, and lead a team of Customer Success Managers

Help drive an engagement model focused on high growth accounts in the Greater China region. 

Develop both the long-term vision and strategy for the team and drive progress toward key metrics

Be accountable for increasing revenue,  managing day-to-day operations, and scaling the team

Coach, mentor, and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based customer success and sales skills

Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs

Inspire, motivate, and enable individual development to promote career growth of direct reports

Travel to Greater China to build interactions and relationships with our users. 

Who You Are

We’re looking for someone who has:

12+ years of customer success management or account management or sales experience with 3-5 years of people management experience

Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance Customer Success team

Ability to support the Customer Success Managers’ efforts through strategic advice on account strategies, and serving as executive sponsor with key relationships

Demonstrated passion for Stripe’s mission

Nice to haves:

Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/software company

Payments experience

Source: Stripe careers

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