Stripe
SaaS
HeadofPayments
“Head of Payments at Stripe. Skills: payments performance optimization, payment orchestration, PSP management, merchant accounts management, approval/acceptance optimization, recurring billing, subscription payments, chargebacks management, risk management. Manage and optimize merchant accounts and payment processors. Improve payment acceptance/approval rates”
What You'll Achieve.
Reach 90% payment acceptance rate; Reduce chargebacks, disputes, and payment-related risks; Streamline payment operations reducing manual work and scaling impact without growing the team
Industry & Context.
payment performance optimization; chargebacks/disputes reduction; payment-related risks management
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years in payments/payment operations, hands-on experience with payment orchestration, hands-on experience with PSP management, hands-on experience with merchant accounts, hands-on experience with approval/acceptance optimization, hands-on experience with recurring billing/subscription payments, hands-on experience with chargebacks/risk management, Deep understanding of US billing/acquiring ecosystem
Nice to Have
B2C subscription SaaS experience, mobile subscription products experience, high-risk payments experience, dating industry experience, gambling/iGaming experience, cybersecurity experience, crypto experience, aggressive consumer subscription businesses experience
What You'll Do.
Manage and optimize merchant accounts and payment processors
Improve payment acceptance/approval rates
Work with payment orchestration and routing logic
Monitor and reduce chargebacks
and payment-related risks
Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline payment operations
Analyze payment performance and optimize recurring billing flows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with internal teams when billing issues affect funnel performance
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