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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 27 days Stripe's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 3% of Stripe's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Stripe
- low 0 stale, 52 reposted of 633 open
- Hiring momentum
- 892 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Stripe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Stripe.
About this role
As a Specialist Solutions Architect for Payments at Stripe, you will work closely with sales and pre-sales teams to drive revenue and educate product teams on market trends. Your role involves engaging with customers to optimize their payment infrastructure, advising on strategies like buy-now-pay-later, and creating reusable assets to enhance team efficiency. You will also act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's payment solutions, ensuring customer needs are met while influencing product development.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Stripe as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ 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
- 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
- Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Nice to have
- Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful payment APIs into web applications
- Knowledge of ISO payment standards and card network rules
- Experience with payment cost modeling, interchange optimization, or processor benchmarking
- Familiarity with marketplace and platform payment flows
- Experience as a subject matter expert in a relevant industry, vertical, or product
Worth weighing
- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated
- Role involves significant collaboration with sales and product teams, which may lead to high visibility but also pressure to meet targets
Summarised from Stripe's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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