Customer Success Manager, Key Accounts

Stripe
San Francisco, CA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Enterprise relationship management professionals with payments expertise will find this mid-level role in San Francisco focused on driving account health and growth through collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level professionals with 10+ years in enterprise client management and 3+ years in payments or fintech
    — “10+ years of experience in a client-facing role in Enterprise relationship management, partnering with large, global, and complex organizations
  • Candidates who have led technical conversations and influenced business decisions
    — “Track record of leading technical conversations and persuading others to take action based on requirements and value provided by solutions
  • Individuals who can act as a bridge between customers and internal stakeholders
    — “Advocate for the customer to internal stakeholders. Share customer feedback and insights to Product Management, Engineering, Support, Marketing, and Sales

Things to consider

  • The role requires a commitment to in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
    — “Strong executive presence and presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
  • The position demands a high level of technical acumen and business strategy alignment
    — “Strong business sense and understanding of underlying drivers and strategy of our user’s businesses

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in driving customer retention and expansion through technical and product insights
    — “delivering payment performance and industry insights
  • Showcase a history of collaboration with sales, technical, and operations teams
    — “working closely with sales, technical account managers, and operations teams
  • Emphasize your ability to align customer priorities with product roadmaps
    — “review payments performance metrics, share Stripe product roadmap and provide guidance on how to optimize the value from Stripe
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • managed key accounts for Stripe
  • delivered proactive workshops and business reviews
Typical background
10+ years in client-facing roles with enterprise customers

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementEnterprise Relationship ManagementPayments And Fintech

Preferred

Saas Product ManagementTechnical Account Management

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementProduct AdoptionUsage VelocityAccount RenewalsGrowthReferralsCustomer SatisfactionPayments PerformanceProduct RoadmapTechnical ConversationsPersuading OthersAnalyticalMeticulousEngagingInvestigating IssuesDelivering InsightsAdvocating For CustomersSharing FeedbackInnovationImprovementOptimizing User ExperienceEnterprisePaymentsFintechSaas

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

Stripe’s Customer Success Managers (CSM) oversee the post-sales lifecycle for Stripe users, ensuring they realize the maximum value of their investment. This partnership drives user success, increases retention and expansion, and supports mutually beneficial renewal outcomes. Few roles provide such a direct impact on the growth of the company.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a motivated and curious professional to manage one of our largest customers. The CSM for our Key Accounts team will deliver proactive workshops, business reviews, payments insights, and thought leadership to help users grow their business. 

The ideal candidate is analytical and meticulous, and enjoys engaging customers to investigate issues and deliver insights. This role involves working closely with sales, technical account managers, and operations teams to engage customers in product, payment, and technical conversations. 

Responsibilities

Partner closely with account executives and technical account managers to support post-sale engagements focused on the optimization, retention, and growth of Stripe’s enterprise customers

Manage a book of customers to drive overall account health including performance, product adoption, usage velocity, account renewals and growth, referrals, and customer satisfaction 

Serve as a trusted payments and product advisor to managed customers by delivering payment performance and industry insights 

Perform business reviews to align on user priorities, review payments performance metrics, share Stripe product roadmap and provide guidance on how to optimize the value from Stripe

Advocate for the customer to internal stakeholders. Share customer feedback and insights to Product Management, Engineering, Support, Marketing, and Sales on the innovation and improvement needed to optimize the Stripe user experience 

In coordination with an account team, support book expansion--identifying and surfacing opportunities to ensure customers are successful.

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

10+ years of experience in a client-facing role in Enterprise relationship management, partnering with large, global, and complex organizations, preferably working with a technical product

3+ years of experience in payments and/or fintech

Strong business sense and understanding of underlying drivers and strategy of our user’s businesses

Track record of leading technical conversations and persuading others to take action based on requirements and value provided by solutions

Strong executive presence and presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications 

Experience with consumption-based SaaS products 

Source: Stripe careers

Similar roles