Specialist Solutions Architect, Stripe
Banking as a Service, EMEA
€132.9-199.3k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€132.9-199.3k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of technical sales experience, ideally within a Fintech company
- 3 years of embedded finance product experience
- Experience with integrating RESTful APIs into web applications
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A passion for learning and researching current and emerging products to develop innovative solutions
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
Desirable
- Strong knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns, with the ability to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other
- Experience enabling and scaling a GTM team
- Experience with online and in-person payments
- Experience in systems design, with a background building and deploying complex applications
What the job involves
- The Solutions Architecture Team partners with our users to realize their full potential through the adoption of prescriptive solutions that drive their growth and success
- Specialist Solutions Architects (SSA) are domain experts aligned to specific Stripe products. We have in-depth knowledge of specific solution offerings and understanding of customer’s challenges
- We advise the broader pre-sales team and work with customers on complex opportunities, support revenue attainment for the product line, serve as an advisor on go-to-market sales plays, enable and uplevel the broader GTM organization and provide critical insights to our product and engineering teams
- As a Specialist Solution Architect, you will lead in-depth product discussions with our top users and prospects and execute against our go to market strategy for products including Stripe Issuing and Stripe Treasury
- We educate our product and engineering teams on the trends in the market and strongly influence the product roadmap for the Banking as a Service product suite at Stripe
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Stripe’s BaaS (Treasury, Issuing) products to accelerate opportunities
- Demonstrate a deep understanding and working knowledge of embedded finance applications that leverage Stripe's Issuing and/or Treasury products
- Understand the compliance requirements of solutions built with Stripe BaaS products
- Define, share, and learn best practices and re-usable assets with the broader GTM organization to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team
- Create reference architectures to uplevel the team and refine reference solutions based on product enhancements and feedback from customers
- Partner closely with the BaaS product sales team and be an active part of the opportunity team for Stripe’s largest BaaS customers to lead strategy and own key customer relationships
- Partner closely with the BaaS product teams to get early exposure to new products and features
- Serve as a “Voice of the Customer” internally to drive product and feature request prioritization
- Identify and summarize product, industry, and implementation trends, and provide actionable insights to product stakeholders and sales to influence Stripe's BaaS product roadmap
- Act as an escalation point to drive our most complex technical issues to resolution with Stripe’s engineering team
- Support customers and Stripes on account or deal strategy related to BaaS deals
- Deeply understand the sales process for the product and provide the Sales team with tools and training to qualify potential leads
- Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation
- Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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