GTM Strategy and Planning Analytics Lead

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

The Go to Market (GTM) Planning team works at the intersection of corporate planning GTM Strategy Product GTM and Regional Strategy and Operations with responsibility for ensuring that we land the Stripe annual rhythm in a smooth and timely manner. This entails 2 main pillars:

• Building and landing foundations for next cycle

• Ensuring budgets territories targets comp plans reporting and enablement are delivered to GTM in a timely manner

What you’ll do

We are seeking a technically sophisticated and detailed oriented individual who will serve as GTM Strategy and Operations Analytics Lead for the GTM Planning organization. This person will be responsible for improving  the quality of sales analytics and insights on a consistent basis specifically with the focus on supporting Segmentation Headcount Investment process Territories design and Target allocation modeling.

Responsibilities

• GTM Planning: Design and execute on a standard cadence of operations which drive future changes process improvements and planning of the Go to Market (GTM) organization

• Business Insights: Develop deep understanding of Stripe’s business and its sales funnel across user segments and geographies. Monitor the progress health and sustainability of the overall strategy.  Provide actionable insight and strategic perspective on business performance to help inform key decisions across GTM teams. Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to business leads and influence strategic decision-making

• Program /Process Management: Independently develop and manage project or program plans to support key stakeholders and core operational planning processes. Manage GTM wide operational processes such as segmentation sales territory building target and quota setting  and build supporting analytical models

• Scalable Insight: Conceptualize build manage and maintain centralized tools (including dashboards) that the business and GTM Planning and cross-functional teams can use to extract data / insights for daily business management in an automated manner and drive current and future rhythms of business

• Oversee implementation of enabling systems and tools working closely with internal systems teams

• Productivity and resource management: Collaborate with our Finance and Strategy team in modeling our GTM productivity  informing resource allocation and optimisation for the GTM organization

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 7+ years of work experience in business operations finance data science investment banking or business analytics

• Advanced SQL and Excel modeling experience

• Experience initiating and completing analytical projects with minimal guidance taking a structured approach to solving unique business problems

• Has a “roll up your sleeves” mentality. Pragmatic problem solver with a bias to action and “getting things done”. Passionate about driving business outcomes and change at the ground level

• Experience presenting technical content to non-technical audiences and leadership. Courageous communicator translating business insights into practical recommendations.

• Working knowledge of statistical frameworks and classical data exploration techniques

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics Statistics a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.