Manager, Solutions Architecture Transformation

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Who We Are

About Stripe

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

About the Team

The Solutions Architecture Transformation team makes focused global investments that turn Solutions Architecture strategy and innovation into scalable capabilities. The team partners with global Solutions Architecture leadership, go-to-market, Product, and Engineering to develop better ways for Solutions Architects to work and scale promising innovation across the organization.

The team combines transformation program leadership with close, matrixed partnerships across AI Engineering and Demo Engineering. This leader will directly manage the team’s program-management leader and bring these groups together around shared priorities, clear operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy, priorities, and operating model for the Solutions Architecture Transformation team, translating Solutions Architecture, go-to-market, and Product direction into a focused portfolio of capabilities, experiments, and programs.
• Manage and develop the team, empowering team members to lead day-to-day program execution while setting clear expectations, providing coaching, and building long-term organizational capabilities.
• Create an inclusive, high-performing team environment grounded in accountability, strong judgment, and a shared commitment to user impact.
• Identify recurring friction in Solutions Architecture workflows and design better tools, practices, and operating models that improve effectiveness and technical excellence across regions, segments, and motions.
• Build strong partnerships with Product, Product Operations, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, Developer Relations, Enablement, and Operations.
• Establish shared priorities and operating mechanisms across Transformation Programs, AI Engineering, and Demo Engineering.
• Partner with technical leaders and Solutions Architecture innovators to build and scale tools, demos, and automated workflows that improve Solutions Architect productivity and user outcomes.
• Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify organizational opportunities, expose tradeoffs, set portfolio priorities, and measure adoption and impact.
• Establish clear ownership, governance, and support models so successful initiatives endure.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in go-to-market program management, business operations, management consulting, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience directly managing and developing high-performing teams in program management, strategy, operations, Product, Engineering, or a comparable discipline, including experience managing through another people leader.
• A track record of building high-performing teams through clear expectations, coaching, thoughtful work allocation, and performance management.
• Experience setting a team or portfolio strategy and translating broad organizational priorities into focused, measurable programs.
• End-to-end global delivery expertise in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, with the ability to solve complex commercial, operational, and workflow challenges.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to analyze data, influence stakeholders from individual contributors to C-suite leaders, and align cross-functional teams around common objectives.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and scaling AI or automation opportunities that produce measurable workflow or productivity improvements beyond basic prompt engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership experience in Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, or a technical go-to-market transformation function.
• Domain expertise in fintech, financial services, payments, or regulated technology environments.
• A track record of scaling global go-to-market functions across AMER, EMEA, and APAC during periods of rapid growth.
• Experience taking ideas from field signal through experimentation, launch, adoption, and a durable long-term operating model.