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Manager, Solutions Architecture - Platforms (Chicago)

US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a pre-sales engineering team to drive upsells, cross-sells, and cosells for SaaS platforms, acting as a trusted advisor to C-level executives and internal teams.

Role type

Manager, Solutions Architecture (Pre-sales Leadership)

Builds

Pre-sales engineering team and account strategies for SaaS platforms

Domain

Financial infrastructure / SaaS / Payments

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Pre-sales leadership, team building and mentoring, executive engagement, strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, solution architecture, revenue growth strategies

Preferred skills

SaaS platform business models, API experience, payments industry experience

Technologies

APIs, Payments

Responsibilities

Recruit, hire, lead, and coach a world-class pre-sales team; Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to develop go-to-market initiatives; Serve as an executive champion and lead EBCs with key customers; Drive collaboration across teams to influence stakeholders; Represent Stripe at industry events and conferences; Act as an escalation point for technical issues

Seniority

Manager, team leadership

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