# Payments Performance Strategist, Card Authorization

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Atlanta, GA; US-Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

The Payments Performance Strategist, Card Authorization role is part of Stripe's Global Payments Performance Team. This team identifies payment optimization opportunities for Stripe's merchants. 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.

## Responsibilities

- 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 optimization strategies.

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

- Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimization playbooks and analyses across Stripe's customer portfolio.

- Synthesize and relay customer feedback and findings to inform Stripe's product roadmap.

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

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry.

- Expertise in diagnosing the root cause of card authorization rate underperformance, and suggesting actionable steps to address root cause issues identified.

- Deep understanding of how to improve merchant card authorization rates (e.g., ISO message optimization, retry logic, issuer-level analysis).

- Ability to partner with merchants to structure and deliver A/B tests that compare card authorization rate performance across PSPs.

- Experience helping merchants onboard to a new PSP such that their authorization rate performance is optimal from day one.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 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.

- Ability to advise merchants on how to manage fraud, primarily on card transactions but ideally on alternative payment methods as well.

- An understanding of how to reduce merchant-level interchange and scheme fees.

## Skills

### Required
- payments
- operations
- card authorization
- payment optimization
- analysis

### Nice to have
- SQL
- dashboard building
- modeling
- reporting
- card network rules
- regulations
- fraud management

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