Alliances & Channels 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 Alliances and Channels team focuses on building, supporting and going  to market with professional services firms including systems integrators, consultancies, and managed services providers.  In addition, the team leads the go-to-market initiatives with our strategic technology alliance partners including SAP, SFDC, Adobe, commercetools and others.   Our objective is to ensure users have access to the broadest set of solutions leveraging the Stripe platform and the deepest set of technology and industry experts, while at the same time ensuring our partners and Stripe build large, mutually beneficial businesses together.  

What you’ll do

As the global leader of Management Consulting Partnerships  you will drive Stripe’s engagement with management consultants, payment advisors and other firms who operate at the board and C-suite level.  These firms help the largest enterprise with their global business and transformation strategies including the development of new business models, including monetizing payments through marketplaces and platforms. Often an enterprises’  financial infrastructure is the cornerstone of these transformations and legacy players are being challenged on their innovation ability in a crowded and rapidly evolving space.   Therefore, Stripe needs to continuously engage, educate and support a broad base of influencers to ensure they clearly understand the value and capabilities that Stripe brings to these initiatives, early in the process.  Ensuring that Stripe is included in the right consideration sets and that these partners have access to resources in Stripe in service of their users. The leader of this function will work to engage firms directly and via scaled mechanisms partnering with product, marketing and GTM teams.  The covered firms will include McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Glenbrook, CMSPI, EDG and similar, while also building a community approach with value-added payment consultants  around the world  Success metrics will include engagement and engagement metrics with managed firms and development of a purpose built program leading to  Stripe being a preferred/short listed provider of next generation commerce transformations and platform use cases  being recommended by these firms. 

Responsibilities

•  Define and build a scalable program to engage these firms individually and broadly.
  
• Engage a prioritized set of  firms at their most Sr. levels to create thought leadership exchange and deep awareness of Stripe.
  
• Engage Stripe’s most Sr. leaders, bringing the right Stripe thought leaders into the engagement at the right time.
  
• Define Metrics for success, iterating overtime as we learn what works. 
  
• Engage Stripe field leaders and teams to educate and evangelize the programs and top firms influencing users.  
  
• Engage with Stripe marketing, analyst and industry leaders.
  

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

• 15+ years of experience leading thought leadership development  and executive engagements in enterprise technology.
• 10+ years of payments and fintech experience
• Strong enterprise background delivering complex, innovative solutions at scale. 
• Experience building and leading, new and existing global programs.
• Deep experience engaging and influencing firms like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and boutiques.
• Proven experience with enterprise transformation programs where innovative technologies are at the core of the initiatives.
• Proven ability to present and evangelize new products and solutions to executives (business and technical) and external audiences.  
• Proven ability to lead complex cross functional global teams at the most Sr. levels. 

Preferred qualifications

• Industry experience with Retail, Media, Insurance, FSI, Automotive, Platforms, etc. 
• Experience defining and implementing new business models. 
• Start-up and early stage technology company experience. 
• Masters Degree in Business Administration.