Strategy & Operations Business Partner, Customer Success

Stripe
Chicago, IL
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in high-growth tech companies and a history of defining operating models.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in high-growth tech or consulting and a track record of building operating models
    — “7+ years of work experience, with a significant portion in strategic / operational roles at high-growth tech companies or consulting.”
  • Individuals who thrive in ambiguous environments and can drive solutions independently
    — “High comfort with ambiguity—you take an undefined operational problem, scope it, design a solution, and drive it to completion with minimal oversight.”
  • Professionals with a strong background in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement
    — “Experience working cross functionally with senior stakeholders.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires direct technical ownership of data and metrics, not just analysis
    — “Strong analytical rigor—you're comfortable owning data and metrics directly”
  • This position assumes the ability to manage technical resources and lead implementation
    — “Ability to manage technical resources and translate business needs into requirements”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in defining operating models and cross-functional execution
    — “Define operating models for new Customer Success specialisms”
  • Demonstrate your ability to implement AI tools to improve workflow efficiency
    — “Design and implement AI-enabled workflows that improve CSM efficiency”
  • Emphasize your skill in translating strategic priorities into actionable plans
    — “Translate CS priorities into actionable plans”
  • Showcase your experience with territory and compensation design in Customer Success
    — “Oversee the management of CSM territories”
  • Demonstrate your ability to create scalable, automated reports and dashboards
    — “Develop scalable, automated reports and dashboards”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • define and monitor annual and quarterly OKRs
  • lead data-informed process improvements
Typical background
experience in strategic planning, operational analysis, and cross-functional collaboration

Skills & requirements

Required

Strategic PlanningOperational AnalysisProcess DesignAi-enabled WorkflowsData-driven Decision-makingOKR DevelopmentCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

AI ImplementationForecastingDashboard Development

Stack & domain

AI ToolsData AnalysisMetricsProcessesCross-functional Ways Of WorkingAi-enabled WorkflowsCSM EfficiencyScalabilityCustomer ImpactTechnical SolutionsAutomated ReportsDashboardsCSM TerritoriesBusiness ProcessesOkrsQbrsLeadership MeetingsStrategic InsightOperational RigorHands-on ExecutionCross-functional InitiativesDecision-makingExecutionScalingCustomer SuccessStrategyOperationsBusiness Partnership

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 Customer Success team oversees 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 teams provide such a direct impact on the growth of the company.

The Customer Success Strategy & Operations team sits at the center of how Customer Success operates at Stripe. This role shapes both the function’s day-to-day operating model—from leadership forums and territory and compensation design to the systems and cadences that enable execution—and its long-term direction. You will lead annual planning, OKR development, and engagement-model design to ensure CS is positioned to deliver for users and scale effectively.

This is a true ‘Business Partner’ role; you will serve as a trusted thought partner to Customer Success leadership—combining strategic insight, operational rigor, and hands-on execution. You will help translate CS priorities into actionable plans, drive cross-functional initiatives, and build the operating mechanisms that enable teams to make better decisions, execute consistently, and scale effectively.

If you enjoy moving between strategic problem-solving and hands-on execution—and bring a roll-up-your-sleeves mindset—this role is for you.

What you’ll do

The near-term focus of this role is on evolving and scaling the foundations of the Customer Success business. This includes strengthening operating models, processes, business cadences, systems, and reporting infrastructure to support a growing and increasingly specialized organization. As a key business partner, you’ll measure and analyze performance, develop forecasts and dashboards, and lead data-informed process improvements that help the CS team operate more efficiently and deliver greater customer impact.

Responsibilities

Work cross-functionally to analyze and troubleshoot system challenges

Define operating models for new Customer Success specialisms, including metrics, processes, and cross-functional ways of working

Design and implement AI-enabled workflows that improve CSM efficiency, scalability, and customer impact

Conduct analysis and investigation of system operations and workflow management

Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and lead their implementation from requirements through delivery

Develop scalable, automated reports and dashboards that meet key business and leadership reporting requirement, and reduce manual effort and operational overhead

Oversee the management of CSM territories

Enhance business processes through data-driven decision-making

Define and monitor annual and quarterly OKRs

Prepare materials for QBRs and other leadership meetings

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

7+ years of work experience, with a significant portion in strategic / operational roles at high-growth tech companies or consulting.

High comfort with ambiguity—you take an undefined operational problem, scope it, design a solution, and drive it to completion with minimal oversight.

Experience with and holding a high bar across operational design, strategic planning, and reporting.

You are comfortable working independently with minimal oversight while holding yourself accountable to deadlines.

Experience working cross functionally with senior stakeholders. You're comfortable bringing an independent and opinionated perspective.

Technical proficiency in AI tools in order to automate workflows as needed.

Strong analytical rigor—you're comfortable owning data and metrics directly, running your own analyses, and pressure-testing assumptions without relying on a dedicated analytics partner

Ability to manage technical resources and translate business needs into requirements

Preferred qualifications

 Experience working with Go-to-Market teams including Customer Success

 Proficient in SQL

Source: Stripe careers

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