Product Support Manager
Stripe
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
Stripe is looking for a leader for our Product Support team supporting Greater China (GCN) and Japan. This manager will lead a high performing team motivated by improving the lives of Stripe’s user base. They will cultivate the happiness of their teams while guiding them through feedback, mentoring, and advocacy within the organization. This means helping to set team goals, and using metrics to efficiently measure and guide team performance in pursuit of those goals. The team is also responsible for managing large operational projects to improve the user support experience in these markets.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Guide the organization to design and deliver incredible user support.
- Ensure team members are happy, effective, and growing in their career and new work experiences.
- Set clear goals and directions, and provide regular feedback on team members’ performance.
- Maintain metrics and analysis of team performance, and provide regular reporting on team performance in the form of written analysis and performance reports.
- 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
- Proficiency in Mandarin is required as this role involves daily communications with our users in the Greater China region.
- At least 3+ years of direct people management experience.
- Experience leading operational teams such as product support teams (preferably in high-growth technology companies).
- Experience with the GCN market.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A strong operational background and a track-record of making data driven decisions.
- Skill and credibility doing the core work of a user facing team with a high bar for quality and a willingness to lead by example.
- An ability to execute on and deliver complex operational projects involving multiple stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with the Japan market
- Japanese language proficiency
- Prior experience with SQL, Tableau and APIs
- Comfort with some technical troubleshooting
- Familiarity with FinTech industry and products
- Passion for learning new functions and features of technical products
- Experience leveraging root-cause analyses to make data driven decisions
The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is S$144,000 - S$216,000. 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.