Specialist Solutions Architect - Money Management

Stripe

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE At Stripe, you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach. 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.  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. Specialist Solutions Architects (SSA) are domain experts aligned to specific Stripe products. We have in-depth knowledge of specific solution offerings and understanding of customer’s challenges. We advise the broader pre-sales team and work with customers on complex opportunities, support revenue attainment for the product line, serve as an advisor on go-to-market sales plays, enable and uplevel the broader GTM organization and provide critical insights to our product and engineering teams.  WHAT YOU’LL DO As a Specialist Solution Architect, you will lead in-depth product discussions with our top users and prospects and execute against our go-to-market strategy for our Money Management products, including Stripe Capital, Issuing, Treasury, and our global Payouts suite. You will educate our product and engineering teams on market trends and strongly influence the product roadmap for the Money Management product suite at Stripe, helping us become the primary way merchants run their businesses. RESPONSIBILITIES * Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Stripe’s Money Management products (including Capital, Issuing, Treasury, and our global Payouts suite) to accelerate opportunities. * Demonstrate a deep understanding of embedded finance applications that leverage Stripe’s products, articulating how they combine to create a compounding platform for our users. * Consult with users on a broad range of embedded finance use cases, from charge card programs and global payouts to a comprehensive suite of financing options including revenue-based financing, loans, and lines of credit. * Understand the compliance requirements of solutions built with Stripe products, especially as we expand our offerings into new markets and use cases. * Define, share, and learn best practices and reusable assets with the broader GTM organization to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team. * Create reference architectures to uplevel the team and refine reference solutions based on product enhancements and feedback from customers. * Partner closely with the Money Management product sales team and be an active part of the opportunity team for Stripe’s largest customers to lead strategy and own key relationships. * Serve as a “Voice of the Customer” internally, providing actionable insights to product stakeholders to influence the Money Management product roadmap and feature prioritization. * Provide critical insights on emerging technologies, including the application of stablecoins for money movement, lending, and global financial access, to influence the product roadmap. * Deeply understand the sales process for the product and provide the Sales team with tools and training to qualify potential leads, including simplifying our distribution for faster onboarding. * Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation. * Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.   WHO YOU ARE We’re 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 * 7+ years of technical sales experience, ideally within a fintech company. * 3 years of product experience with embedded finance solutions, such as card issuing, lending, or treasury management. * Experience with integrating RESTful APIs into web applications. * Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. * A passion for learning and researching current and emerging products to develop innovative solutions. * A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners.  * Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Strong knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns, with the ability to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other. * Experience enabling and scaling a GTM team. * Experience in systems design, with a background building and deploying complex applications.

Stripe

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 Specialist Solutions Architects (SSA) are domain experts aligned to specific Stripe solutions and customer buying centers. We have in-depth knowledge of specific solution offerings and understanding of customer’s challenges. We advise the broader pre-sales team on complex opportunities, support pipeline development and revenue attainment, serve as an advisor on go-to-market sales plays, and provide critical insights to our product and engineering teams.  WHAT YOU’LL DO You will collaborate closely with sales and pre-sales teams to drive pipeline and revenue targets, while also educating the product and engineering teams on market trends and strongly influencing the product roadmap. You will develop deep relationships with senior customer business leaders and grow Stripe’s solution offerings with new and existing customers. As a subject matter expert, you will scale the broader organization by creating reusable assets and coaching teams on complex, high-value opportunities. You will also run customer workshops and take the lead on key opportunities. The team is looking for a Payments and Money Movement industry specialist with a proven track record of designing and deploying financial architectures for B2B and B2C enterprises that deliver on key business outcomes. You will engage with Stripe’s customers as a thought leader in the Payments space to lead them through financial infrastructure transformations and maximize for things like authorization rates, simplicity, conversion rates, while reducing risk and fraud rates.  You will extend your experience and expertise to customers to understand their existing architecture and lead them to redesign with Stripe and Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite and Link solutions, in order to achieve their business objectives. Your solutions and reference architectures will help customers strategically partner with Stripe to drive better conversion, higher revenue, and successful transformations. Your efforts as a Payments Specialist SA will have a direct impact on driving strategic, scalable engagements with the world’s most complex and innovative enterprises.  RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead customer teams to visualize, strategize, prioritize, implement, and measure impact and growth with Stripe solutions * Partner with customers to co-develop a strategy to embed our Payments capabilities and experiences throughout their platform for online and in-person payments, primarily focused on our Optimized Checkout Suite and Link solutions * Work with business and technology leaders to understand the holistic business strategy and define solution specific architectures that offer opportunities to simplify the payments processes while also reducing costs and risks and improving authorization rates, and conversion rates * Act as a technical consultant to customers to advise on financial architecture best practices that include Stripe as a key part of the solution architecture with the goal to help customers achieve high ROI on their investments * Understand existing financial technologies and architecture for a customers through deep discovery workshops * Be an advisor on change management efforts for product solutions and convey key messages to customers and stakeholders helping prioritize conflicting key performance indicators (timelines vs risk for example) * Create architecture diagrams that can be shared with customers to drive key solution and implementation decisions that accelerate deals and activations * Help Stripe capture additional market share by providing recommendations on Stripe product direction * Uplevel the broader team by developing reusable assets such as scalable value drivers, end-to-end solutions, best practices, architecture guides. * Keep abreast of new relevant technologies and industry knowledge, and showcase technical thought leadership through forums such as whitepapers, conferences, and industry events.  * Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally WHO YOU ARE We’re 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 * 7+ years of experience working in payments, fintech, industry * Knowledge of ISO payment standards * Working knowledge of designing payment flows and architectures for large enterprises * Experience with the different payment methods globally, including BNPLs, wallets, etc. * Understanding of the impact of optimizing payment experiences for checkout conversion for merchants and ability to consult on the best design options for accepting payments * Knowledge of integration of the payment hubs with core banking systems, fraud and risk systems, sanctions screening, and money movement rails * Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: improving conversion, cost optimization, network compliance, processing reliability, cards feature expansion * Experience with large global enterprise scale infrastructure that includes designing and implementing multi-party money movement platforms such as marketplaces * Presents persuasively and authoritatively to peers and senior leadership, while facilitating collaborative conversation * Experience in creating a strategic technology direction, aligning it with tactical activities, and communicating plans broadly across the organization * Ability to communicate effectively across multiple audiences, including firm-wide business units, senior leaders, associates, and external vendors * Ability to travel per business needs PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications * Experience with online and in-person payments, subscriptions, or other relevant concepts * Experience as a subject matter expert in a relevant industry, vertical, or product

Stripe

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE At Stripe, you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach. 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. 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. Specialist Solutions Architects (SSA) are domain experts aligned to specific Stripe products. We have in-depth knowledge of specific solution offerings and understanding of customers' challenges. We advise the broader pre-sales team and work with customers on complex opportunities, support revenue attainment for the product line, serve as an advisor on go-to-market sales plays, enable and uplevel the broader GTM organization, and provide critical insights to our product and engineering teams. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Specialist Solution Architect for Crypto and Stablecoins, you'll lead in-depth product discussions with our top users and prospects and execute against our go-to-market strategy for Stripe's crypto and stablecoin products, including Bridge and Privy. You'll collaborate closely with sales and pre-sales teams to drive pipeline and revenue targets, while also educating the product and engineering teams on market trends in digital assets and influencing the product roadmap for Stripe's crypto infrastructure offerings. RESPONSIBILITIES • Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's crypto and stablecoin products, including Bridge and Privy, to accelerate opportunities globally • Demonstrate a deep understanding and working knowledge of digital asset infrastructure, stablecoin protocols, blockchain networks, and crypto payment solutions • Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements for crypto and stablecoin implementations across different jurisdictions • Define, share, and learn best practices and reusable assets with the broader GTM organization to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team • Create reference architectures to uplevel the team and refine reference solutions based on product enhancements and feedback from customers • Partner closely with the crypto product sales team and be an active part of the opportunity team for Stripe's largest crypto customers to lead strategy and own key customer relationships • Partner closely with the crypto, Bridge, and Privy product teams to get early exposure to new products and features • Serve as a "Voice of the Customer" internally to drive product and feature request prioritization • Identify and summarize product, industry, and implementation trends in the crypto ecosystem, and provide actionable insights to product stakeholders and sales to influence Stripe's crypto product roadmap • Act as an escalation point to drive our most complex technical issues to resolution with Stripe's engineering team • Support customers and Stripe teammates on account or deal strategy related to crypto and stablecoin implementations • Understand the sales process for crypto products and provide the Sales team with tools and training to qualify potential leads • Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation in the digital asset space • Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows focused on crypto and blockchain technology • Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CTOs, CFOs, Heads of Digital Assets, and Treasury teams WHO YOU ARE We're 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 • 7+ years of technical sales or solutions engineering experience, ideally within fintech, crypto, or blockchain companies • 3+ years of hands-on experience with cryptocurrency, stablecoins, or blockchain technology implementations • Deep understanding of stablecoin protocols, DeFi ecosystems, and crypto payment infrastructure • Experience with blockchain APIs and integrating digital asset solutions into traditional financial systems  • Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks governing digital assets (MiCA, US regulatory landscape, etc.) • Outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, comfortable explaining complex crypto concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences • A passion for learning and researching current and emerging crypto products to develop innovative solutions • A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners • Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Strong knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns, with the ability to understand how blockchain technologies and traditional systems interact • Experience enabling and scaling a GTM team in the crypto or fintech space • Experience with traditional payment systems and how they integrate with crypto infrastructure • Background in treasury management, corporate finance, or digital asset custody solutions • Experience in systems design, with a background building and deploying complex crypto applications • Understanding of cross-border payments and international money movement regulations