Stripe
Specialist Solutions Architecture, Link
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Partner closely with the Payments product sales team on Stripe's most strategic Link opportunities, leading solution strategy and owning key customer relationships
- Partner closely with the Link product team to get early exposure to new features
- Serve as a "Voice of the Customer" internally to drive product and feature request prioritization
- Act as an escalation point to drive complex technical issues to resolution with Stripe's engineering team
- Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting role focused on online payments or e-commerce
- Strong working knowledge of checkout optimization, including conversion metrics, cart abandonment, and the UX and technical levers that influence them
- Familiarity with payment authentication standards (3DS, passkeys, network tokenization) and their impact on authorization rates
- Experience designing payment flows and integrations for large enterprises, including multi-market and multi-currency scenarios
- Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns
- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
Nice to have
- Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications
- Experience with A/B testing or analytics frameworks for checkout optimization
- Familiarity with wallet and one-click checkout ecosystems (Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Shop Pay)
- Experience as a subject matter expert in a relevant industry, vertical, or product
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- You will develop deep relationships with senior customer business leaders and grow Stripe's solution offerings with new and existing customers.
- You will engage with Stripe's customers as a thought leader in the conversion optimization space, helping them understand how Stripe Link-Stripe's one-click checkout network-can reduce cart abandonment, improve returning customer conversion, and create a more seamless payments experience at scale.
- Develop expertise with Stripe's Link integration patterns-including embedded checkout, Stripe.js, and direct API flows-and guide customers through key implementation decisions
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