Product Support Lead, Direct

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 Product Support team directly supports our largest and fastest growing users, partnering with them to grow their business. We actively seek and capitalize on opportunities to meet and exceed their service expectations, working to impress the trendsetters and remove obstacles from their path. The team is there when users need us but also there proactively - before they even realize they need support.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a leader who will lead a high performing team of product specialists and operations associates to deliver exceptional user experiences. This team goes beyond basic troubleshooting—it's about developing a team of technical expertise with analytical mindset and project management skills to strategically improve our support systems, processes, and product quality.

The leader will play a key role to cultivate the happiness of their teams through clear goal setting, feedback mechanism, mentoring, and advocacy within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of globally located product specialists and operations associates, including five team managers
• Guide the organization to design and deliver scalable user support by partnering effectively with cross functional stakeholders across Operations, Product, Engineering and GTM
• Set clear goals and directions, and provide regular feedback on team members’ performance
• Ensure team members are happy, effective, and growing in their career and new work experiences
• Drive strong operational delivery and process improvement helping to mitigate risk while balancing operational efficiency and user impact
• Maintain metrics and analysis of team performance, and provide regular reporting on team performance in the form of written analysis and performance reports
• Be data-driven in your analysis of performance, and in your decision making
• Transmit and foster our values, serving as a beacon of Stripe’s user-centric philosophy and culture of transparency, empathy, inclusion, and empowerment
• Help build the organization through management projects such as recruiting, training, writing team policies, defining team processes, or other organizational improvements

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

Preferred requirements

Hybrid work at Stripe

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €101,600 - €152,400. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions / sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits / additional compensation for this role may include : equity, company bonus or sales commissions / bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.