Solutions Architect, Stripe
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$152-228k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Posted today
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Posted today
$152-228k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, or sales engineer, for a global software enterprise
- 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 architecture
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, presentation skills, and confidence in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of Connect, Stripe's solution for enabling platform payments, exploring its various features, and integration methodologies
- Gather an in-depth understanding of Stripe's Payments and Billing systems and their applicability across diverse business models to beneficially cater to individual clients' and their customers' needs
- Ability to understand how a wide variety of applications such as ERP, CRM, Billing, Tax and legacy systems interact with each other in a platform technology stack/ecosystem
- Strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to juggle competing priorities while working with multiple strategic opportunities and customers
- Ability to travel per business needs
Desirable
- Experience as a customer facing, domain expert in the payments space, presenting, and architecting solutions for platform customers
- Prior experience driving technical sales with top-tier enterprise scale platforms and supporting them and their customer’s unique requirements
- Experience with integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications
- Experience in systems design, building and deploying complex applications
- Experience in helping customers adopt and consume software in a cloud model
- Passionate about learning and actively seeks out knowledge
- Ability to work independently and confidently to develop a path forward with customers under ambiguous circumstances
- Strategic and creative thinker who can proactively identify challenges and maintain a positive approach when facing difficult obstacles
- Strong collaboration skills to work seamlessly with extended teams to support our users
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
- We work with C-level executives, finance leaders, product design and engineering teams at large global brands and platforms who are building financial services solutions with Stripe
- We work closely with Account Executives, Professional Services, Customer Success Managers, Partners, Technical Account Managers and Product Teams to develop and execute on the account strategy for Stripe’s platform prospects
- As a member of the team, Solutions Architects build highly consultative trusted relationships with C-level executives and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business challenges
- We architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth
- Be a key member of the Platform account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy; Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption
- 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
- 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 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
- Act as a crucial part of the sales team, providing technical insight and solutions to prospective and existing platform users
- Guide and provide technical expertise on Stripe and its benefits for both platforms and their customers
- Showcase the capability of Stripe's platform in solving business problems, highlighting features, benefits, and potential customizations
- This includes demonstrating how those benefits pass down to the customer's own user-base
- Manage pre-sales projects, coordinating proof of concept development, and feasibility checks
- Ensure all solutions proposed are viable, beneficial to our potential clients, and also accommodating to their customers
- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally
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
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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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