Vendor Manager

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 vendor management team's mission is to support Stripes' global expansion by creating a high-performing, scalable, and sustainable vendor ecosystem. We offer friendly and personalized support to users worldwide, consistently striving to deliver the fastest and most effective solutions to their inquiries. By working closely with our vendor partners, we ensure they consistently deliver a superior user experience to Stripe's users.

What you’ll do

As Stripe’s user base and global footprint grows dramatically, we are looking for an experienced Vendor manager who brings both strategic and operational abilities to lead our outsourced support operations. Our vendors provide user support across a number of contact channels such as email, chat and phone, they generate sales and qualify leads, they perform risk reviews and execute a variety of back office functions. You are responsible for overseeing the vendor operations for Stripe across user-facing teams and ensuring that the vendors are delivering world class support experience to our users. You will be working closely with cross-functional leaders and operational teams across our Product Sales Operations, Enablement and Infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and own operational relationships across key partners in user operations, external vendors and internal teams
• Hold Stripe’s external partners and internal stakeholders accountable for performance and contractual commitments
• Own the management of vendor sites including contracts and commercials, staffing and delivery of required inputs from the vendors. You will be responsible for working with the vendor and internal teams for enablement of the sites 
• Lead Business Reviews and actions with vendors to drive KPI performance. Be directly accountable for maintaining metrics and analysis of vendor performance, and provide regular reporting on performance.
• Deep dive and improve workflow management, workforce management practices at the vendor site(s) and ensure optimal practices for adherence to Stripe defined workflows
• Be an expert on Stripe products. …