Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, used by millions of companies worldwide to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, offering you an unprecedented opportunity to impact the global economy while doing the most important work of your career.

The Solutions Architecture Team partners with users to realize their full potential through prescriptive solutions that drive growth and success. This team collaborates with C-level executives, finance leaders, product design, and engineering teams at global brands and platforms building financial services solutions with Stripe.

As Manager of Solutions Architecture, you will lead, build, and mentor a world-class pre-sales engineering team focused on growing the existing user base through upsells and cross-sells. You will work cross-functionally with Account Executives, Professional Services, Customer Success Managers, Partners, Technical Account Managers, and Product Teams to develop and execute account strategies for Stripe’s largest users including Enterprises, Digital Natives, and SaaS Platforms.

This leadership role requires excellent interpersonal skills to act as a trusted advisor across sales, partner, professional services, product development, and marketing teams. You will drive collaboration, influence stakeholders at all levels, and lead from the front to deliver outstanding outcomes for our users.

Experience
- Minimum 3+ years of pre-sales leadership experience and 10+ years within a technical sales function
- Proven track record of building and leading world-class solution architecture/engineering teams, ideally in SaaS or usage-based businesses
- Experience working with Enterprise, Digital Native, and SaaS Platform business models
- Previous technical sales experience with APIs and/or payments industry experience
- Strong executive presence with the ability to build credibility and foster deep relationships with users

About you
- Energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate about making customers successful
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with a growth mindset
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time to engage with customers and collaborate with internal teams

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military experience required