Payments Performance Strategist, PINless Debit

We're looking for a Payments Performance Strategist to join our Global Payments Performance Team. As a Payments Performance Strategist, you will lead data-driven discussions with existing and prospective merchants on optimization strategies across various areas, including card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows. 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:

• Advise customers on usage of Stripe's PINless debit offering
• Design and collaborate on PINless debit experiments alongside Stripe's Data Science, and own experiment result analysis and customer facing readouts of analysis
• Serve as an internal expert on Stripe's PINLess debit offering, relaying customer feedback to Product with the goal of shaping Stripe's roadmap and strategy for PINless debit
• Work with account teams, deal pricing teams and partnership teams to manage Visa and Mastercard incentive offers, churn risks and volume win back initiatives
• Lead discussions with existing and prospective 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.
• Gather and build on Stripe's wide-ranging payments expertise to create optimisation narratives/tools supported by rigorous analysis.
• Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimization playbooks and analyses across Stripe's 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
• Develop optimization playbooks and stay updated on industry best practices and Stripe innovations

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in payments at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry.
• Deep expertise in PINless debit
• Understanding of e-commerce payments, cards based payments processing and optimization strategies, with a strong focus on PINless debit.
• Understanding of PINless debit regulations
• 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
• Strong data processing, organisational and analytical skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with designing and administering A/B tests, SQL, dashboard building, modelling, or reporting
• Experience presenting to senior business leaders