Critical Support Operations Associate, Weekend Coverage 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 Critical Support team is Stripe's frontline response function for urgent, high-stakes user issues. We operate at the intersection of hands-on support execution, incident response, and cross-functional coordination. Our mandate is to protect users in their most business-critical moments—resolving executive-triggered escalations, urgent and critical-priority cases, and complex issues that require more than a standard resolution path. We work closely with Internal Risk Management, Product, Engineering, and Legal to drive fast, coordinated outcomes. This is a greenfield team: we are building the operational foundations, workflows, and standards that will define critical support at Stripe for years to come. What you'll do As a Critical Support OA, you will be the first operational responder on Stripe's most urgent and time-sensitive user issues. You will execute against escalation cases across a wide range of complex scenarios—from executive-triggered requests and critical payment failures to urgent user escalations requiring immediate cross-functional coordination. This is a builder role: in addition to resolving cases, you will actively help shape the processes, playbooks, and operational standards that make this team function. You will develop a strong foundation in executive communication, complex problem-solving under pressure, and operational execution in an ambiguous, high-stakes