The opportunity
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 understanding of customer’s challenges.
What you'll do
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, and 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 key performance indicators (timelines vs risk for example)
What they're looking for
- + 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
