Strategy & Operations Business Partner, Customer Success

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 o...

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. Yo...

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 mechanism...

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.
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

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.
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
 Experience working with Go-to-Market teams including Customer Success
 Proficient in SQL