User Escalation Specialist

Stripe•Chicago, IL

About The Position

The Escalations team offers a single point-of-entry for all user escalations raised by Stripes on behalf of a user. This team is accountable for all user escalation resolutions by either direct responsibility for resolution or by partnering with other support and non-support teams to facilitate a resolution. We aim to help users find speedy issue resolution and alleviate confusion and unnecessary effort from non-Support Stripes to do this. We will dig into specific user escalations to find top drivers for our most frequent and painful issues affecting our largest users as well as analyze the experience for the broader subset of users. Ultimately, these cases often shine a light on points of failure within Stripe, and the User Escalations team has the opportunity to create transformative user experiences, while also helping edit Stripe to rectify the structural issues that resulted in the escalation in the first place. This is a high visibility, high impact role, with the responsibility to work with users and cross functional stakeholders, all while helping build this team from the ground up.

Requirements

At least 5+ years of experience in a user support (customer facing) role
Prior experience in troubleshooting and working on short SLA cases / escalations.
Prior experience working on projects or process improvement initiatives
Sound judgment and impeccable attention to detail
Deep sense of customer care and users-first perspective
Unflappable, exothermic energy under pressure
Comfort with ambiguity and a proven ability to create order out of chaos by building processes that help the team run better and deliver a better user experience
Solid stakeholder management skills and an ability to influence others to drive progress
A sense of urgency and a drive to see issues through to resolution

Nice To Haves

Experience leading multiple concurrent projects
Analytical rigor and the ability to use data to inform decisions; comfort with SQL is a plus
Experience in large / enterprise users is a plus

Responsibilities

Respond to incoming User Escalations from Stripes in a timely manner (within agreed service levels) as well as triage, scope, and support to resolution
Communicate directly with users to solve the most painful problems, via email and phone
Be accountable for timely and accurate resolution for all User Escalations within agreed service levels
Directly, or in partnership with other Stripe teams, drive fast resolution and demonstrate extreme ownership in solving users issues completely
Conduct thorough, data-driven root causes analyses of escalations, and work with partner teams to validate findings
Share findings and insights with leaders through forums and presentations
Collaborate with partner teams to identify remediations to address root causes of escalations and drive change from a users’ first mentality
Challenge the status quo, identifying how and where Stripe needs to improve to better serve users
Help build the team and process from the ground up
Support training and socialization efforts for process adoption across Stripe
Build relationships with partner teams and drive accountability for completion of remediations
Understand and help influence the relevant product roadmaps that will address the most frequent user escalations