Solutions Architect
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Job description
- 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., Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.
Requirements
You have achieved an experienced position as an enterprise architect, senior solution architect or principal solution engineer and have a successful track record advising enterprise-grade digital native / SAAS / Platform / Marketplace companies, focused on identifying business priorities, formulating technology strategies and designing an end-to-end business solution. You possess deep technical acumen, high interpersonal and leadership skills, and have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success along the entire customer journey. Strategic and creative thinker who can proactively identify challenges, take ownership, and maintain a positive approach when facing difficult obstacles., * 7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, sales engineer, for a global software enterprise.
- 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., * Prior experience in consulting.
- Experience at a growth stage internet/software company.
Benefits & conditions
The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is £120,500 - £180,700. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
