Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Stripe's Solutions Architecture Team as a Solution Architect, Enterprise and build trusted relationships with c-level executives and technical decision-makers. You will architect business models to drive new monetization opportunities and growth. Responsibilities include identifying and closing complex opportunities, driving thought leadership, understanding customer business objectives, and designing Stripe solutions. You will lead strategy engagements, expand Stripe's footprint within accounts, and act as the "Voice of the Customer." This role requires significant experience in a customer-facing engineering role within a global software enterprise, specifically within the payments industry. The position demands strong executive engagement, communication, and technical skills.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, sales engineer, for a global software enterprise
• Experience in the payments/ billing / invoicing / issuing / banking / Fintech space
• Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels
• Effective group-facilitation skills and confidence in proposing and leading customer meetings to gain strategic footing and pursue opportunities
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and API architectures. A background in writing code in any of Stripe’s primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.) is a plus
• Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, presentation skills, and confident in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to operate independently in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Passion to take on ownership and drive change in a constantly evolving environment
• Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to travel per business needs

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of a Stripe account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy
• Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption. Understand and align with the customer’s product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate their progress on that roadmap
• Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering and Head of Payments
• Work to deeply understand the customer’s business objectives, and then design and apply Stripe’s solutions to their challenges. Develop and articulate the end to end customer transformation journey and create future roadmaps and architectures with deep 3rd party integrations in play
• Conduct business analysis and background research on customers, industries, and competitors with a view to support growth for the user's business
• Lead strategy engagements with users to align to business priorities, design solutions and secure the technical win by performing in-depth customer discovery, evangelizing the proposed solutions through executive briefings, readouts, presentations, workshops and solution demos
• Expand Stripe’s footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units by introducing new capabilities and local payment methods
• Act as the “Voice of the Customer” to bring insights, trends and opportunities to the leadership, product and engineering teams from the forefront and prioritized for delivery
• Participate in sales forecasting, Quarterly Business Reviews and account/territory planning to strategically and tactically align for success

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in consulting
• Experience at a growth stage internet/software company