- Company: Stripe
- Location: London
- Job type: Full-time
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About the role
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform used by millions of companies to accept payments and grow revenue. As the Manager of Solutions Architecture, you will lead a world-class pre-sales engineering team. Your goal is to help existing users reach their full potential by driving upsells and cross-sells. You will act as a trusted advisor to sales, partner, and professional services teams while influencing product direction based on customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, hire, coach, and retain a high-performing pre-sales team.
- Develop and execute strategy for enterprise, digital native, and SaaS platform segments.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to create joint go-to-market initiatives.
- Build strong relationships with C-level executives and key decision makers.
- Drive collaboration across the organization to unify stakeholders and achieve business results.
- Champion the voice of the customer to influence product priorities and feature development.
- Represent Stripe at industry events and customer business reviews.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of pre-sales leadership experience.
- 10+ years of experience in a technical sales function.
- Track record of building and leading solution architecture or engineering teams, ideally in SaaS or usage-based businesses.
- Experience working with Enterprise, Digital Native, or SaaS Platform business models.
- Previous technical sales experience with APIs and/or the payments industry.
- Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with users.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military experience.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.
Pay and benefits
Specific salary details and benefits are not listed in the job advertisement.
How to apply
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