Specialist Solutions Architect, Crypto & Stablecoins

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 a deep understanding of customer challenges. We align with specialist product sellers on deals, 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 others on complex, high-value opportunities. As a Specialist Solutions Architect for Money Management, you will lead in-depth product discussions with Stripe's top users and prospects and execute against our go-to-market strategy for Stripe Capital, Issuing, Financial Accounts, and our global Payouts suite. You will help users understand how these products combine to create a compounding embedded finance platform—enabling them to build card programs, hold and move funds globally, and offer financing options that increase user stickiness and unlock new revenue streams. RESPONSIBILITIES * Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's Money Management products—Capital, Issuing, Financial Accounts, and global Payouts—to accelerate opportunities * Demonstrate a deep understanding of embedded finance applications and articulate how Stripe's Money Management products combine to create a platform for building financial services * Consult with users on a broad range of embedded finance use cases: charge card programs, global payouts, revenue-based financing, loans, and lines of credit * Understand the compliance requirements of solutions built with Stripe products, including KYC/KYB, BSA/AML, card network rules, and how they apply across geographies 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 customer feedback * Partner closely with the Money Management product sales team on Stripe's largest opportunities, leading solution strategy and owning key customer 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 opportunities—including stablecoin-based money movement and global financial access—to influence the product roadmap * 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—card issuing, treasury management, lending, or global payouts * 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 * Familiarity with compliance frameworks governing embedded finance: KYC/KYB, BSA/AML, card network rules, and money transmission licensing * Experience enabling and scaling a GTM team * Experience in systems design, with a background building and deploying complex financial 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 The Billing Solutions Architects (SA) team is a group of specialists with a deep understanding of Stripe's products and the broader subscription, billing, and payments industry. They excel at using Stripe's platform to solve complex customer problems and collaborate with sales teams to create custom solutions and provide strategic guidance to merchants. Their contributions extend to helping achieve revenue and pipeline goals, offering insights on go-to-market plans, and providing valuable feedback to product and engineering teams.   What You'll Do You will be a key technical advisor and solutions expert, driving the adoption of our billing solutions with new and existing customers. You'll collaborate closely with sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams to ensure successful customer go-lives and influence our product roadmap based on market trends and customer needs. This involves building deep relationships with customer stakeholders, developing and delivering technical solutions, and scaling the organization's expertise through training and knowledge sharing. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of internet commerce - working on challenging problems at a global scale in a collaborative and innovative work environment. Responsibilities: * Technical Expertise: Serve as the subject matter expert on our billing and revenue recognition solutions, demonstrating deep understanding of order-to-cash processes, customer journeys, and the competitive landscape. * Solution Development: Architect elegant solutions addressing specific customer challenges, including complex integrations and customizations. * Customer Success: Partner with sales and alliances teams to drive opportunities for our largest customers, leading solution strategy and laying groundwork for successful implementations. * Product Influence: Act as the "voice of the customer," providing actionable insights to influence product development and feature prioritization. * Knowledge Scaling: Create and share best practices, reusable assets, and training materials to enhance go-to-market efficiency. * Technical Support: Help resolve complex technical issues for key customers, working with customer success and engineering teams. * Sales Support: Represent technical aspects in sales forecasts, identify potential blockers, and propose solutions. * Market Engagement: Participate in marketing events, including executive briefings, conferences, and trade shows. Who you are If you’re passionate about people, ideas, and embracing the unknown; if you see setbacks as chances to learn and grow; and if you believe in the power of focused effort to drive progress—then this is the place for you! You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Minimum Requirements: * 10+ years of experience in technical sales or pre-sales roles, focusing on solution architecture and best practices * 5+ years of current experience in the payments, fintech, or closely related industry * Strong technical acumen in API integrations, SaaS platforms, and enterprise architectures, with particular emphasis on order-to-cash processes and billing systems * Extensive experience with subscription, billing, and payment solutions * Solid understanding of financial infrastructure industry trends and emerging technologies * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences * Executive presence and strong relationship-building skills * Passion for customer success and dedication to championing the customer voice * Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time

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