Solutions Architect, SSMB
Solutions Architect, SSMB
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripes (Startups Small and Medium Businesses) SSMB Solutions Architecture (SA) team works with technical and business leaders (CTO/ CIO/ CEO/ Founders etc.) payments leaders and product engineering teams in the mid-market segment to evangelize Stripes solutions in the market. A solutions architects role is to build relationships with decision makers and think strategically about the business needs of Stripes customers. Solution Architects identify and propose Stripe solutions to solve complex business challenges and drive growth for our customers. SSMB SAs establish and prescribe best practices around a customers strategy provide business and technical thought leadership and are viewed as a trusted advisor. They work on scaling business processes aligned to maximizing account coverage while working closely with customer and partner resources to deliver a solution that can be adopted quickly.
What youll do
As a member of the team the Solutions Architect will build highly consultative trusted relationships with c-level executives and technical decision makers in the customers organization to provide business and technical thought leadership and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business challenges. She/he will architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth for both the user and Stripe.
Responsibilities
- Drive thought leadership and build executive relationships with key business and technical stakeholders including CIO CTO COO CRO CDO & Head of Payments. Strive to become their trusted advisor.
- Work to deeply understand the customers business objectives and apply Stripes payments SaaS Banking-as-a-Service and Link Network solutions to customer challenges
- Secure the technical win for Stripes products by delivering demos responding to RFPs evangelizing Stripes products and collaborating internally on narratives that align with the customers goals.
- Creating scalable processes (1:M customer engagements Webinars office hours etc) partnerships (with external and internal partners) and scaled assets (reusable videos/ templates) in order to act as a force-multiplier in the sales process.
- Expand Stripes footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units by introducing new capabilities and local payment methods
- Collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders including go-to-market product and marketing to deliver impactful EBC briefings for SSMB accounts
- Act as the voice of the customer to inform our product team on insights trends and opportunities across our SSMB accounts.
- Work closely with professional services and partners to accelerate activations and time to live
- Collaborate with partners to help Stripe scale and reach its Total Addressable Market
- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally
Who you are
An ideal candidate should have experience working for medium to large software companies (preferably in In payment-tech) focused on identifying business priorities technology strategy and solution design.
They will have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success including business value identification(discovery/ demo cycles) road mapping as well as advising and defining successful execution strategies.
Ideal candidates have external customer-facing experience have payment expertise (preferred but not required) who can present and architect Stripes solutions and persuade decision makers to leverage Stripe technology to drive business value. Candidates have previous experience in web architecture enterprise architecture or experience defining and optimizing financial business processes.
Minimum requirements
- 2 years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role (e.g. solutions architect sales engineer customer success professional services delivery) for a fin-tech/payment-tech / global software enterprise with 5 years of total relevant experience (software development enterprise sales/ architecture business development etc.)
- Experience as a customer facing roles - presenting and architecting solutions. Domain experience in the payments space is preferred
- Deep understanding or background in writing code in at least 2 of Stripes primary deployment languages (Ruby Python JavaScript Java Go etc.)
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills presentation skills and comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Able and willing to learn Stripe solutions (Payments Billing Connect etc.)
- Ability to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other (ERP CRM Billing Tax Legacy)
- Executive engagement skills and presence with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
- Strong organizational/time management skills and the ability to juggle competing priorities while working with multiple opportunities and customers.
- Strong collaboration skills to work seamlessly with the broader GTM team to support our users.
- Experience solving open ended business problems with a combination of technology and creative thinking
- Ability to travel per business needs
Employment Type
Full Time
