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Manager, Customer Success Manager

Stripe · Chicago, IL · 1340 Customer Success Management

Posted Sep 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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Likely interview questions for this role

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About your past

Tell me about a Customer Success team you scaled. What did you change as it grew?

What they are checking: Real experience scaling a team, which requires different processes and coaching than leading a small one.

Tell me about a time you solved a complicated customer problem with very little guidance.

What they are checking: Comfort with ambiguity and independence, which the posting names as core to this role.

Tell me about a time you worked across product or engineering to fix something for a major customer.

What they are checking: Ability to get internal teams moving on a customer's behalf when they have their own priorities.

How do you hire for a CSM role on a strategic account team?

What they are checking: Their bar for talent and what they believe makes a strong customer success manager.

What would you do

How would you coach a CSM who is great with day-to-day contacts but nervous with executives at accounts like Doordash or Lyft?

What they are checking: Whether they can build executive presence in others through practice and direct involvement.

A strategic customer's executive escalates directly to you, unhappy with their CSM. What do you do?

What they are checking: Balancing the customer relationship with fair support for their own team member.

One of your CSMs is consistently missing targets but working very hard. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can separate effort from results and find the real cause before acting.

About the work

What metrics would you use to judge your team's health beyond renewal numbers?

What they are checking: Understanding of leading indicators like adoption and engagement that predict renewals before they happen.

How do you decide when to step into an account yourself versus letting your CSM own it?

What they are checking: Judgment about being hands-on without undercutting the team's ownership and growth.

How do you run a quarterly business review with a large enterprise customer so it's useful to them?

What they are checking: Whether they center reviews on the customer's goals rather than a list of Stripe features.

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The full job description

As published by Stripe.

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 Our users are the heart of our business. Stripe’s Global Customer Success Team is responsible for managing our largest and most strategic relationships, such as Doordash, Lyft, and Shopify. In this manager role you’ll be responsible for a high-performing team of Customer Success Managers. You’ll lead and coach the team, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, roll up your sleeves to work directly with executives at existing enterprise Stripe customers and partner cross functionally to help users execute their business priorities. We are looking for a hands-on, visionary leader who has demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment, and solving complicated problems with limited oversight. Ideal candidates will have management and leadership experience scaling a technology Customer Success team, superior communication skills, and a track record for building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and understanding unique customer needs. What you’ll do We are seeking a Manager to lead a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers to build and grow the relationships with our most complex users. You will: • Recruit, develop, and lead a team of Customer Success Managers supporting strategic, relationship-based accounts. • Help drive an engagement model focused on building durable user relationships, increasing adoption, delivering value • Develop both the vision and strategy for the team, driving progress toward customer health, renewal and growth metrics  • Be accountable for identifying risks and opportunities early, and helping the team build and work through mitigation plans. • Coach, mentor, and guide the team in developing consultative customer success and sales skills • Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs • Build strong operating rhythms for the team, including account planning, health reviews, renewal forecasting and business reviews. • Inspire, motivate, and enable the team by setting clear expectations, providing direct feedback and supporting their individual development and career growth.  We’re looking for someone who has: • 12+ years of customer-facing experience in customer success, account management, or sales with 3-5 years of people management experience • Experience leading sales or account management in a high-growth technology environment • Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performing user-facing team • Ability to support the Customer Success Managers’ efforts through strategic advice on account strategies, and serving as executive sponsor with key relationships • Ability to operate in a high-growth environment and work through ambiguity to solve complex customer and business problems • Demonstrated passion for Stripe’s mission, and helping users succeed Nice to haves: • Prior experience leading a customer success team • Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/software company • Payments or Billing experience • Prior experience in customer success, enterprise account management, partnerships and/or business development

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