Stripe
Head of Platforms Solutions Architecture
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted May 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
US - Experience
- At least 6+ years of pre-sales leadership experience and 16+ years’ experience within a technical sales function.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required.
About the job
Leads Stripe’s Solutions Architecture organization for existing business, building and coaching a pre-sales team that drives customer growth, retention, and revenue through upsells and cross-sells.
What you'll do
- Recruit, lead, retain, and coach the Solutions Architecture team; define processes to measure its performance and impact.
- Partner across Sales, Marketing, Professional Services, Partners, and Product teams on strategy and go-to-market initiatives.
- Lead executive customer engagement, complex evaluations, escalations, and advocacy for customer needs in product direction.
What they ask for
- At least 6+ years of pre-sales leadership experience and 16+ years’ experience within a technical sales function.
- Track record of building and leading solution architecture or engineering teams, ideally in SaaS or usage-based businesses.
- Experience with Enterprise, Digital Native, and SaaS Platform business models; technical sales experience with APIs and/or payments industry experience.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience; willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.
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