Stripe3 days ago

Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

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Responsibilities

  • 01Collaborate closely with sales and pre-sales teams to drive pipeline and revenue targets
  • 02Educate the product and engineering teams on market trends and influence the product roadmap
  • 03Develop deep relationships with senior customer business leaders and grow Stripe's solution offerings
  • 04Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite, Adaptive Pricing, Managed Payments, Orchestration, and BNPL integrations
  • 05Demonstrate a deep understanding of global payment optimization including local acquiring, intelligent routing, dynamic currency conversion, and authorization improvement strategies
  • 06Develop expertise in designing multi-PSP and payment orchestration architectures
  • 07Advise customers on BNPL strategy including product selection, regulatory considerations, and integration patterns
  • 08Define, share, and learn best practices and reusable assets with the broader GTM organization
  • 09Create reference architectures that help customers design end-to-end payment infrastructure
  • 10Partner closely with the Payments product sales team on complex OCS and Orchestration opportunities
  • 11Serve as a Voice of the Customer internally to drive product prioritization
  • 12Identify and summarize trends in payment orchestration, cost optimization, and alternative payment methods
  • 13Act as an escalation point to drive complex technical issues to resolution
  • 14Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation
  • 15Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows

Requirements

  • 017+ years of experience in payments, fintech, or a closely related industry in a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting role
  • 02Strong working knowledge of global payment methods including cards, wallets, bank-based methods, and BNPLs including regional preferences and regulatory context
  • 03Experience designing payment optimization architectures for large enterprises including multi-PSP environments and orchestration layers
  • 04Knowledge of authorization rate improvement levers: local acquiring, network tokenization, 3DS, smart retries, and the technical and commercial tradeoffs
  • 05Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns
  • 06Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • 07Proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
  • 08Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment

What we offer

  • 01Approximately 25% travel is anticipated