About the Role
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. The Strategy & Analytics team maximizes and accelerates Operations' ability to make Stripe work for users, acting as COOs for Stripe Ops. This role involves being a go-to expert, delivering critical insights, ensuring data-driven decision making, and partnering with leadership to drive business strategy, planning, goal-setting, and performance tracking.
Responsibilities
- Wrangle large, complex datasets using SQL into actionable insights and become the data expert for your business area.
- Develop metrics and large-scale dashboards to track the health of user-facing and internal teams.
- Perform analyses using SQL and other analytical tools/languages, identify trends, conduct research, and build models to deliver objective insights.
- Create narratives and documents to influence senior Operations leadership and the Stripe executive team.
- Influence and drive cross-functional change by partnering with stakeholders across globally distributed teams.
- Design, optimize, and drive operational reviews and rhythm of the business.
- Guide the planning and goal-setting process for your business area, including progress checks.
- Apply a ROI lens to all operational decisions to make better-informed trade-offs.
- Support forecasting and planning processes for Financial Crimes, including near/medium/long-term planning.
Requirements
- 5+ years of prior experience in analytical and strategic roles in management consulting, Operations, Support, Risk or Financial Services.
- Outstanding analytical ability, expert in SQL and understanding of data relationships.
- Outstanding communication, presentation skills & stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in or with Operations, Support, Risk, Trust & Safety, Financial Crimes, or Financial Services.
- Expertise working cross-functionally and with globally distributed teams to drive business and operational goals using data.
- Ability to connect the big picture to minute details, toggling between them to set and operationalize strategy.
- Structured problem solving skills, combined with strong business acumen.
- Experience with Tableau.
Skills
- SQL
- Data analysis
- Data modeling
- Metrics development
- Dashboard creation
- Communication
- Presentation
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Business strategy
- Operational planning
- Forecasting
- Tableau
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- 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.
- Strategy & Analytics (S&A) maximizes and accelerates Operations' ability to make Stripe work for our users.
- We aspire to be the COOs for Stripe Ops, working cross-functionally with global teams to help run the day-to-day business and articulate and achieve the longer term, high effort, high value strategic priorities.
- We take a data-driven approach that combines strategy and analytics to help Ops leaders solve their most complex and most important issues while also driving the business planning and operational cadence end-to-end, from strategy to goal-setting to execution.
