⏳ Last Date to Apply: Open for 100 days from publication (subject to business needs)
Stripe Payments Performance Strategist Recruitment 2026: Apply Online
Payments Performance Strategist, Card Authorization
Job Overview
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.
The Global Payments Performance Team identifies payment optimization opportunities for Stripe’s merchants. The Global Payments Performance team serves a critical role both in demonstrating thought leadership on challenging payment topics, and also partnering with our high-potential merchants to set them up for long term success. We want a partnership with Stripe to be a competitive advantage for our customers, large and small, by providing them with best-in-class technology in concert with insightful and specific advice on how to harness this technology to achieve their business goals.
As a Payments Performance Strategist, you will lead data-driven discussions with existing and prospective merchants on optimization strategies across a variety of areas including, card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows. You will be instrumental in building our optimization narratives/tools and delivering on our merchant engagement model. You will also collaborate with Sales, deploying your knowledge to differentiate Stripe to win deals, and partner with our Customer Success organization to ensure that merchants are successful working with Stripe.
Key Job Details
| Company Name | Stripe |
| Job Role | Payments Performance Strategist, Card Authorization |
| Experience | 5+ years of experience in payments or operations |
| Salary Range | $189,400 – $284,200 per year |
| Job Type | Full time |
| Work Mode | Hybrid / Remote |
| Openings | Not Mentioned |
| Job Location | South San Francisco HQ, Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Chicago, or Remote (United States) |
Key Responsibilities
- Lead discussions with existing and prospective merchants, and provide the Sales team with tools and training to lead discussions with merchants and prospects.
- Serve as both an internal and merchant-facing expert on payment optimization strategies.
- Gather and build on Stripe’s wide-ranging payments expertise to create optimization narratives/tools supported by rigorous analysis.
- Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimization playbooks and analyses across Stripe’s customer portfolio.
- Synthesize and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe’s product roadmap.
- Provide feedback on our tools and playbooks to help continuously improve our self-serve offerings.
Requirements & Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry.
- Expertise in diagnosing root causes of card authorization rate underperformance, and suggesting actionable steps to address root cause issues identified.
- Deep understanding of how to improve merchant card authorization rates (e.g., ISO message optimization, retry logic, issuer level analysis, etc.).
- Ability to partner with merchants to structure and deliver A/B tests that compare card authorization rate performance across PSPs.
- Experience helping merchants onboard to a new PSP such that their authorization rate performance is optimal from day one.
Required Skills
- Card Authorization Rate Optimization
- ISO Message Optimization & Retry Logic
- A/B Testing & Performance Analysis
- SQL, Dashboard Building, and Data Modeling
- Understanding of Card Network Rules & Regulations (PSD2/PSD3)
- Senior Stakeholder Presentation & Communication
- Fraud Management & Cost Reduction (Interchange/Scheme Fees)
About Stripe
Stripe is a global financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses of all sizes to accept payments, manage billing, and scale their operations online. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Stripe powers millions of companies worldwide, from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, with a mission to expand the internet economy.
- This is a private corporate career listing collected from official channels.
- We do not charge any money for job alerts, scheduling, or application processes.
- If a recruiter demands any payment or “security deposit” in exchange for a job offer, it is a scam.
- Verify details on the official company portal before sharing sensitive personal details.