Payments Performance Strategist, LATAM

Stripe
CDMX, Mexico
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 7+ years of payments or operations experience in LatAm and can synthesize complex data into actionable strategies for merchants.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years of payments experience in LatAm and a track record of advising merchants on optimization strategies
    — “7+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry, with a focus on the LatAm market”
  • Professionals who are fluent in Spanish and can build cross-functional partnerships to drive merchant success
    — “Language proficiency in Spanish”

Things to consider

  • The role may require a high level of direct client interaction and public speaking.
    — “Experience presenting directly to merchants”
  • There is a strong emphasis on building and maintaining internal and external relationships across teams.
    — “A proven ability to build collaborative working relationships with cross-functional teams.”
  • The role may involve a significant amount of travel or on-the-ground engagement with LatAm merchants.
    — “Initially, the focus will be primarily on the Mexican market.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in advising merchants on card network costs and fraud prevention strategies.
    — “card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows to start”
  • Demonstrate your ability to synthesize customer feedback and use it to influence product development.
    — “Synthesise and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe’s product roadmap.”
  • Emphasize your experience in creating optimization playbooks and data-driven analyses.
    — “Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimisation playbooks and analyses across Stripe’s LatAm customer portfolio.”
  • Demonstrate your ability to train and collaborate with sales teams on merchant engagement strategies.
    — “Lead discussions with existing and prospective LatAm merchants, and provide the Sales team with tools and training to lead discussions with merchants and prospects.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • optimized payment strategies for LatAm merchants
  • deployed sophisticated optimization playbooks
Typical background
7+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company

Skills & requirements

Required

Payments Optimization StrategiesE-commerce Payments ProcessingCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

SQLDashboard BuildingModeling

Stack & domain

PaymentsOperationsE-commerceCards Based Payments ProcessingOptimization StrategiesSQLDashboard BuildingModelingReportingCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingLeadershipFinanceTechnology

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

The Global Payments Performance Team identifies payment optimization opportunities for Stripe’s merchants. The Global Payments Performance team serves a critical role both in demonstrating thought leadership on challenging payment topics, and also partnering with our high-potential merchants to set them up for long term success. We want a partnership with Stripe to be a competitive advantage for our customers, large and small, by providing them with best-in-class technology in concert with insightful and specific advice on how to harness this technology to achieve their business goals.

What you’ll do

The Payments Performance Strategist, LatAm, will be responsible for leading data-driven discussions with existing and prospective LatAm merchants on optimisation strategies across a variety of areas including, card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows to start. Initially, the focus will be primarily on the Mexican market.  You will be instrumental in building our optimisation narratives/tools and delivering on our merchant engagement model. You will also collaborate with Sales, deploying your knowledge to differentiate Stripe to win deals, and partner with our Customer Success organization to ensure that merchants are successful working with Stripe.

Responsibilities

Lead discussions with existing and prospective LatAm merchants, and provide the Sales team with tools and training to lead discussions with merchants and prospects.

Serve as both an internal and merchant-facing expert on payment optimisation strategies in LatAm.

Gather and build on Stripe’s wide-ranging payments expertise to create LatAm optimisation narratives/tools supported by rigorous analysis.

Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimisation playbooks and analyses across Stripe’s LatAm customer portfolio.

Synthesise and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe’s product roadmap.

Provide feedback on our tools and playbooks to help continuously improve our self serve offerings

Who you are

Minimum requirements

7+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry, with a focus on the LatAm market 

Understanding of e-commerce payments, cards based payments processing and optimisation strategies

A proven ability to build collaborative working relationships with cross-functional teams.

The ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment.

A 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.

Language proficiency in Spanish

Preferred requirements

Experience with SQL, dashboard building, modeling, or reporting

Understanding of card network rules and regulations, local payment methods, and the regulatory environment (PSD2/PSD3)

Experience presenting to senior business leaders

Source: Stripe careers

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