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 a deep understanding of customer challenges.
What you'll do
Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite, Adaptive: Pricing, Managed Payments, Orchestration, and BNPL integrations to accelerate opportunities globally
Demonstrate a deep understanding of global payment optimization: including local acquiring, intelligent routing, dynamic currency conversion, and authorization improvement strategies
Develop expertise in designing multi-PSP and payment orchestration: architectures, including how Stripe integrates alongside or replaces incumbent processors
Advise customers on BNPL strategy, including product selection, regulatory: considerations, and integration patterns across checkout and billing flows
Define, share, and learn best practices and reusable assets with the broader: GTM organization to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team
Create reference architectures that help customers design end-to-end payment: infrastructure with Stripe at the core
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in payments, fintech, or a closely related industry in: a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting role
- Strong working knowledge of global payment methods including cards, wallets,: bank-based methods, and BNPLs - including regional preferences and regulatory context
- Experience designing payment optimization architectures for large: enterprises, including multi-PSP environments and orchestration layers
- Knowledge of authorization rate improvement levers: local acquiring, network tokenization, 3DS, smart retries, and the technical and commercial tradeoffs between them
- Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills,: comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
