Demo Engineer

at Stripe

📍 Chicago, United States

USD 122,200-183,200 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

Demo Engineering shows customers how Stripe works through technically strong, compelling demonstrations. The team builds demos by selecting the right story, scoping it to customer needs, and keeping it current as Stripe products evolve. The role is suited to technically fluent storytellers who understand Stripe’s products deeply and can turn positioning into demos for high-visibility customer moments.

Responsibilities

Translate Product Marketing positioning and messaging into demo narratives.
Design multi-product demo stories that sequence cleanly.
Direct demo builds using AI-assisted tools to prototype quickly and produce production-quality work.
Track Stripe product launches and keep the demo portfolio current and on-message.
Curate the Demo Hub so field teams can find the right demo for each customer.
Serve as the primary Product Marketing liaison for event demo content.
Scope Executive Briefing Center (EBC) and strategic customer demos with Solutions Architects and the EBC team.
Bridge Product Marketing and the demos presented by field and marketing teams to customers.
Use product positioning and messaging to create demo-ready narratives.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

3+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing, or product role such as solutions engineering, sales engineering, technical product marketing, developer relations, or software engineering.
Deep technical product fluency, including the ability to explain how APIs and products fit together and assess what can be demoed reliably.
Strong storytelling and written communication skills, including the ability to turn a positioning document into a memorable customer narrative.
Hands-on experience using AI tools such as Claude Code or Codex to prototype and build software.
Strong judgment and taste regarding what matters to customer audiences, from developers to executives.
Ability to own projects end to end across Product Marketing, Solutions Architecture, Product, Design, and Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a software engineer or experience building and integrating with Stripe or other RESTful APIs.
Experience with online and in-person payments, subscriptions, card issuing, or other relevant concepts.
Experience scoping or delivering executive briefings, keynotes, or large event demos.
Experience working closely with Product Marketing on launches.
Subject-matter expertise in a relevant industry, vertical, or product.