Stripe · 1 day ago
Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments
New York, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$203K/yr - $305K/yr
7+ years expStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect for Payments. This role involves collaborating with sales teams to drive revenue targets, advising customers on financial architecture best practices, and leading them through financial infrastructure transformations.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
The person in this role will 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, 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 KPIs (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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Equity
Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
401(k) plan
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Wellness stipends
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
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Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
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Head Of Engineering
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