User Escalations Specialist

Stripe, Inc.•Chicago, IL

70d•$90,000 - $135,100•Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you will play a vital part in addressing user escalations at Stripe, focusing on swift and effective resolution. You'll engage directly with users and the reporters of the escalations, while also collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure user issues are resolved effectively. Additionally, you will leverage data and insights to identify trends, root causes and drive support improvements across the wider organization.

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