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# Solutions Consultant, Enterprise (Presales) at Stripe

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** San Francisco CA Chicago IL New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8168151

## Job description

## 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

The Solutions Architecture Team partners with our users to realize their full potential through the adoption of prescriptive solutions that drive their growth and success. We influence revenue growth across Stripe’s product portfolio, and collaborate with sales, support, product management, and Stripe’s executive team to provide the best experience to our most valued customers.

## 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. You'll architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth for both the user and Stripe.

## Responsibilities

- Be a key member of a Stripe account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy
- Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption. Understand and align with the customer’s product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate their progress on that roadmap.
- Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering and Head of Payments.
- Work to deeply understand the customer’s business objectives, and then design and apply Stripe’s solutions to their challenges. Develop and articulate the end to end customer transformation journey and create future roadmaps and architectures with deep 3rd party integrations in play.
- Conduct business analysis and background research on customers, industries, and competitors with a view to support growth for the user's business.
- Lead strategy engagements with users to align to business priorities, design solutions and secure the technical win by performing in-depth customer discovery, evangelizing the proposed solutions through executive briefings, readouts, presentations, workshops and solution demos.
- Expand Stripe’s footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units by introducing new capabilities and local payment methods.
- Act as the “Voice of the Customer” to bring insights, trends and opportunities to the leadership, product and engineering teams from the forefront and prioritized for delivery.
- Participate in sales forecasting, Quarterly Business Reviews and account/territory planning to strategically and tactically align for success
- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally

## Who you are

You have achieved an experienced position as an enterprise architect, senior solution architect or principal solution engineer and have a successful track record advising enterprise-grade digital native / SAAS / Platform / Marketplace companies, focused on identifying business priorities, formulating technology strategies and designing an end-to-end business solution. You possess deep technical acumen, high interpersonal and leadership skills, and have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success along the entire customer journey.  Strategic and creative thinker who can proactively identify challenges, take ownership, and maintain a positive approach when facing difficult obstacles.

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

## Minimum requirements

- 7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, sales engineer, for a global software enterprise.
- 5+ years of experience in pre-sales
- Experience in the payments/ billing / invoicing / issuing / banking / Fintech space
- Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
- Effective group-facilitation skills and confidence in proposing and leading customer meetings to gain strategic footing and pursue opportunities.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and API architectures. A background in writing code in any of Stripe’s primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.) is a plus.
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, presentation skills, and confident in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to operate independently in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
- Passion to take on ownership and drive change in a constantly evolving environment.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
- Ability to travel per business needs

## Preferred requirements

- Media & Entertainment, Gaming / Retail / Financial Services industry experience
- Prior experience in consulting
- Experience at a growth stage internet/software company

## About Stripe

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / payments infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – from startups to global enterprises (e.g., Le Monde, trucking companies)
- Mission: “Increase the GDP of the internet” by making online commerce easier and more accessible

## Products & Services
- **Stripe Payments**: Accept and optimise payments globally – online and in person; supports 135+ currencies and payment methods [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Billing**: Manage subscriptions, invoices, and recurring revenue; over 200 million active subscriptions managed [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Connect**: Embed payments into platforms and marketplaces
- **Stripe Atlas**: Incorporate a company, get everything needed to fundraise and start selling
- **Stripe Terminal**: In-person payments with customisable card readers
- **Stripe Issuing**: Create and manage a card issuing programme
- **Stripe Climate**: Automatically contribute a fraction of revenue to carbon removal

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $1.9 trillion in payments volume processed in 2025 [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Infrastructure underpins more than 1% of global GDP [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - Over 8,000 employees across 25+ offices worldwide [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs)
  - 99.999% historical uptime for Stripe services [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
  - Deploys 10,000+ times per day while maintaining five 9s of reliability [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - 135+ currencies and payment methods supported [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Processes massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime – a level of trust few competitors match.
- **Developer‑First Experience**: Obsessive focus on API design, documentation, and ease of integration; “start with a blank screen, work until a product is ready, polish until exceptional” [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Global Reach**: Supports 135+ currencies and payment methods, with local offices in 25+ cities to serve regional needs.
- **Network Effects**: The more businesses use Stripe, the more data and infrastructure advantages accrue, making it harder to switch.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Agentic Commerce**: Building economic infrastructure for AI, including monetisation through agentic commerce [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Crypto & Stablecoins**: Enabling borderless money movement with stablecoins and crypto [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuing to add financial tools (billing, issuing, terminal, climate) that work individually or together.
- **Globalisation**: Deepening presence in markets like Japan, India, and Latin America.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Intense and kind” – high expectations paired with a supportive, transparent environment. Weekly all‑hands with senior leaders; decisions based on idea quality, not seniority [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Growth & Ownership**: “Promotions are tied to demonstrated impact, not tenure.” Employees get substantial responsibility early, often working outside their domain [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote‑friendly – two main HQs (San Francisco & Dublin) plus 25+ offices, and many Stripes work from home or coworking spaces [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, mental health, financial advisory, family planning, and parental leave. Education team provides onboarding and ongoing expert‑led courses [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits).
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee‑created resource groups (Stripe Communities), accommodations for disabilities, and a commitment to equal opportunity [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).

## Sources
1. [stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
2. [stripe.com/jobs](https://stripe.com/jobs)
3. [stripe.com/](https://stripe.com/)
4. [stripe.com/jobs/search](https://stripe.com/jobs/search)
5. [stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits)

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