**Who this is for** This role is for a Solutions Architect who will work with technical and business leaders in the SMB segment, evangelizing Stripe's solutions
Work type: unknown
Location: Chicago
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a Solutions Architect who will work with technical and business leaders in the SMB segment, evangelizing Stripe's solutions and architecting business models to drive customer growth. **Key highlights** You will build trusted advisor relationships with C-level executives, understand business objectives, and apply Stripe’s diverse solutions to complex challenges, securing technical wins and expanding Stripe's footprint. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have experience in medium to large software companies, ideally in payment technology. - Can build trusted advisor relationships with senior executives and facilitate customer success. - Possess a strong understanding of technology strategy and solution design. - Can identify and define successful execution strategies for clients.
## 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
Stripe’s SMB Solutions Architecture (SA) team works with technical and business leaders (CTO/ CIO/ CEO/ Founders etc.), payments leaders and product engineering teams in the SMB segment to evangelize Stripe’s solutions in the market. A solutions architect’s role is to build relationships with decision makers and think strategically about the business needs of Stripe’s customers. Solution Architects identify and propose Stripe solutions to solve complex business challenges and drive growth for our customers. SMB SAs establish and prescribe best practices around a customer’s strategy, provide business and technical thought leadership and are viewed as a trusted advisor. They work on scaling business processes aligned to maximizing account coverage while working closely with customer and partner resources to deliver a solution that can be adopted quickly.
## What you’ll do
As a member of the team, the Solutions Architect will build highly consultative trusted relationships with c-level executives and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business challenges. She/he will architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth for both the user and Stripe.
### Responsibilities
An ideal candidate should have experience working for medium to large software companies (preferably in In payment-tech), focused on identifying business priorities, technology strategy, and solution design.
They will have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success including business value identification(discovery/ demo cycles), road mapping, as well as advising and defining successful execution strategies.
Ideal candidates have external customer-facing experience, have payment expertise (preferred but not required) who can present and architect Stripe’s solutions, and persuade decision makers to leverage Stripe technology to drive business value. Candidates have previous experience in web architecture, enterprise architecture or experience defining and optimizing financial business processes.
### Minimum requirements