The opportunity
Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are domain experts aligned to specific Stripe solutions and customer buying centers. We bring deep technical and industry knowledge to complex customer opportunities, advise the broader pre-sales organisation, support pipeline development…
What you'll do
Lead complex enterprise customer engagements from discovery through solution: design, implementation planning, and measurement of business impact across Managed Payments, Adaptive Pricing, OCS, and local payment methods.
Advise customers on scalable payments architecture, including payment: orchestration, multi-currency flows, cards, wallets, local payment methods, fraud and risk systems, and money-movement rails.
Conduct deep discovery with business and technical stakeholders, develop: solution scopes and reference architectures, and guide trade-offs across conversion, authorization, cost, risk, customer experience, and implementation complexity.
Act as an APAC payments thought leader by bringing regional market insight: including cross-border and local payment-method considerations to customers, sales teams, and Stripe’s product and engineering organizations.
Scale the broader organization through reusable APAC assets, customer: workshops, coaching on strategic opportunities, and collaboration with internal teams and customers across the region; travel approximately 25% as needed.
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in payments, fintech, financial services, or a related: technology industry, including designing payment solutions or financial architectures for enterprise customers.
- Deep knowledge of payment flows and payments architecture, including cards,: wallets, local payment methods, multi-currency payments, payment orchestration, fraud and risk systems, money movement, and relevant ISO payment standards.
- Experience advising large B2B and/or B2C enterprises on payment: modernization, checkout optimisation, conversion and authorization improvement, cost optimisation, network compliance, or processing reliability.
- Strong understanding of the APAC payments landscape and cross-border payment considerations
- Strong project management, documentation, and stakeholder communication: skills, including the ability to work independently through ambiguity; professional fluency in English and Business Mandarin to conduct business and technical conversations with stakeholders across SEA, ANZ and Greater China
- Experience with Stripe or integrating RESTful APIs into web or mobile applications.
- Experience with Optimised Checkout, payment orchestration, adaptive: payment-routing approaches, or checkout-conversion optimisation.
- Experience with online payments, marketplaces, subscriptions, platforms, or multi-party money movement.
