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Job Description
Who We Are
About Stripe
At Stripe you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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.
About The Team
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 Clevel 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 Stripes platform prospects.
What Youll Do
As a member of the team Solutions Architects build highly consultative trusted relationships with Clevel executives and technical decision makers in the customers organization to provide business and technical thought leadership and become a trusted advisor in solving missioncritical business challenges. We architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth.
Responsibilities
- 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 customers business objectives and then design and apply Stripes 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 indepth customer discovery evangelizing the proposed solutions through executive briefings readouts presentations and solution demos.
- Expand Stripes 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 Stripes platform in solving business problems highlighting features benefits and potential customizations. This includes demonstrating how those benefits pass down to the customers own userbase.
- Manage presales 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 inperson in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally
Who You Are
Were 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
- 5 years of experience in a similar customerfacing 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 groupfacilitation 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 nontechnical audiences.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of Connect Stripes solution for enabling platform payments exploring its various features and integration methodologies.
- Gather an indepth understanding of Stripes 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a customer facing domain expert in the payments space presenting and architecting solutions for platform customers.
- Prior experience driving technical sales with toptier enterprise scale platforms and supporting them and their customers 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.
Employment Type
Full Time
