Solutions Architect, Enterprise (Presales)
Stripe · San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY · 1151 Solutions Architecture (AMER) · listed August 24, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Principal
Experience asked
5–7 years
Where
On site
Requirements listed
11
Length
798 words
In the posting’s own words
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 influence revenue growth across Stripe’s product portfolio, and collaborate with sales, support, product management, and Stripe’s executive team to provide the best experience to our most valued customers.
What it asks for · 11
- 7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, sales engineer, for a global software enterprise.
- 5+ years of experience in pre-sales
- Experience in the payments/ billing / invoicing / issuing / banking / Fintech space
- 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 architectures. A background in writing code in any of Stripe’s primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.) is a plus.
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, presentation skills, and confident in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to operate independently in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
- Passion to take on ownership and drive change in a constantly evolving environment.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
- Ability to travel per business needs
Also a plus
- Media & Entertainment, Gaming / Retail / Financial Services industry experience
- Prior experience in consulting
- Experience at a growth stage internet/software company
What the job covers
- Be a key member of a Stripe account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy
- Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption. Understand and align with the customer’s product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate their progress on that roadmap.
- 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 with a view to support growth for the user's business.
- 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, workshops 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
- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally
Tools and skills named
Go to market
- Solutions architecture3×
- Customer success
- Forecasting
- SaaS
Languages
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Ruby
Product & design
- Roadmap2×
- Product management
Words the posting leans on
- business14×
- solutions13×
- customer12×
- experience7×
- skills6×
- technical6×
- architect5×
- executive5×
- growth5×
- product5×
- requirements5×
- users5×
- drive4×
- leadership4×
- align3×
- architectures3×
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