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Job description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use 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 everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripe's SMB Solutions Architecture (SA) team works with technical and business leaders (CTO/ CIO/ CEO/ Founders etc.), payments leaders and product engineering teams in the SMB segment to evangelize Stripe's solutions in the market. A solutions architect's role is to build relationships with decision makers and think strategically about the business needs of Stripe's customers. Solution Architects identify and propose Stripe solutions to solve complex business challenges and drive growth for our customers. SMBSAs establish and prescribe best practices around a customer's 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 you'll 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 customer's 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 customer's business objectives and apply Stripe's payments, SaaS, Banking-as-a-Service and Link Network solutions to customer challenges
Secure the technical win for Stripe's products by delivering demos, responding to RFPs, evangelizing Stripe's products, and collaborating internally on narratives that align with the customer's 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 Stripe's 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 SMB accounts
Act as the voice of the customer to inform our product team on insights, trends, and opportunities across our SMB 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 Stripe's 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
3+ years of total rele
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Worksite address
chicago, IL, 60290, US
Who can apply
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