Central Product Sales Strategy and Operations Lead

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 GTM Operations team is responsible for overall productivity and effectiveness of the sales organization, partnering closely with the sales team and teams across Stripe to drive initiatives.  Within the Sales Strategy and Operations team, the

Global Product Sales Strategy and Operations team

is aligned to each of Stripe’s Product Pillars (Revenue Automation, Money Management and Payments) and are heavily focused on partnering with both GTM and Product to drive the rhythm of business, strategic initiatives, bi-annual planning and execution. We advance the sales policies, processes and tools to drive revenue and growth. Within Stripe, the goal of the Product sellers is to help users understand Stripe’s specialised offerings and recommend the right Stripe solutions and implementation path.

This is a newly created incredible opportunity that will be focused on ensuring that there is a cohesive strategy across all Product Sales Pillars, this will encompass all parts of GTM but predominantly focusing on operations, rhythm of business, strategic initiatives and analytics.

What you’ll do

Our team is growing rapidly and the majority of our near term focus is on building business foundations, which entails a focus on operational projects (process design, business cadences, systems work). This

Central Product Sales Strategy and Operations Lead role

works closely with Product Sales Strategy and Operations Business Partners and Analysts on everything related to the flow of data throughout the sales funnel and will drive scale for the team.  In addition to engaging with the wider GTM Strategy and Operations team, you will also be collaborating with numerous cross-functional stakeholders from across the globe, including: finance operations, product and system operations and customer success and renewals operations.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in developing go-to market strategy, resource plan and key performance metrics

Work cross-functionally to investigate and conduct analysis on system and operational issues

Drive rhythm of business (forecasting, pipeline council, monthly / quarterly business reviews) with strong operational rigor

Provide insights on key performance metrics and priorities (e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly business reviews), identify key roadblocks to progress, and work efficiently to remove them

Provide business analytic strength to help drive initiatives critical to ongoing growth and provide key insights for business leadership to support strategic decision-making

Drive critical projects and initiatives and drive alignment with cross-functional teams across the organization by developing detailed project plans with activity based milestones

Design and run complex processes across product and operational teams

Build with a mindset of scale and flexibility for all internal and external stakeholders

Partner with other teams to help them execute on important strategic initiatives or drive operational scale and efficiency

Who You Are

If you meet the minimum requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

11+ years experience in similar or related technology roles or ideally in a multiproduct or platform company.

3+ years of experience building or supporting GTM processes, workflows, data and systems, including Salesforce and other Sales productivity tools

Previous experience building and executing programs from scratch and measuring their impact

Experience In Salesforce.com As A User And Report Developer

Comfort operating with incomplete or varying data, and adaptability and proactivity to prioritize activities based on shifting business needs

Excellent analytical, presentation experience, and executing presence, influencing across all levels

Strong project-management skills, with the ability to handle multiple, high-priority projects in a highly demanding environment

An ability to seamlessly transition from strategy, high level to very detailed, and a willingness to “roll up your sleeves”

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience at a global and/or growth stage Internet/software company or FinTech

Experience At A Company With A Multi-user Strategy (enterprise, Smb, Self Serve) And Multi-product

MBA or higher degree in an analytical field