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📍 United States· Full-time
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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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Brand Studio lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe's high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking brand design systems, experiences, and advertising campaigns. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. The Experiential team is responsible for bringing Stripe's brand to life in the real world—from flagship events and industry conferences to internal summits and curated partner experiences. This is a team that operates at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and production. What you'll do As Creative Director, Event Design, you will lead a team of talented designers and set the creative direction for all of Stripe's event and experience design. You are an inspiring leader and a sharp creative director—someone who can zoom out to define a cohesive creative vision, and zoom in to give precise, actionable feedback. You partner closely with event marketers, brand leaders, producers, and executive stakeholders to ensure every Stripe experience is cohesive, intentional, and unmistakably on-brand. You care deeply about your team's craft, their growth, and the culture they work within. Responsibilities: Lead, manage, and grow a team of brand and experiential designers—setting clear expectations, fostering a culture of craft, and creating an environment where designers do their best work Own the creative direction for Stripe's experiential design output: event design syst

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team: OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Our API is the industry's most widely adopted AI platform, empowering startups, indie developers, and Fortune 500 companies alike. Through multimodal APIs—spanning real-time interactions, text-to-speech (TTS), speech generation, and image generation—we enable users to harness the full potential of diverse AI modalities effectively and at scale. About the Role: We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our multimodal API product suite. Your team will be responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. You will own the product roadmap for how we evolve our multimodal API offerings, and you will build the products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images. In this role, you will: Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products – including our realtime API, our transcription models (Whisper), our speech generation models (TTS), and our image generation APIs (DALLE and native 4o). Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap. Work closely with our research teams to improve our core multimodal models for API customer use cases. Guide technical and architectural decisions, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and user experience. Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within your team. Qualifications: Proven experience managing engineering teams that deliver complex, high-quality products at scale. Strong technical background and proficiency in modern software engineering practices and system architecture. Excellent collaboration and communication skills to effectively coordinate across diverse teams and stakeholders. Familiarity with or strong interest in multimoda

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📍 New York, NY, United States
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About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craf

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📍 New York, NY, United States
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. 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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Drive risk strategy for company-level strategic initiatives, which includes: partnering with the company’s product, legal, operations, sales, and partnerships teams to solve risk problems and ensure a positive user experience. Perform research and analysis to assess Stripe’s current risk performance and develop and prioritize long-term strategic plans for future growth. Increase business enablement, allowing the types of supportable merchants to safely grow at scale, continuously optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness, and stay hyper focused on a positive user experience. Challenge the status quo and provide multiple alternative solutions and key execution criteria. Execute special projects and provide ad hoc analyses as initiatives, products, risks, and opportunities are constantly evolving. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Law, Business, Policy, Development Studies, or a related field, plus five (5) years post-bachelors, progressive related work experience as a Risk Strategist or a related occupation. Must also have five (5) years of experience in each of the following: Developing risk strategies and solutions and working with technical products, including working with product and engineering, and operations teams for implementation; Distilling complex, ambiguous risk and policy problems into clear guidance for internal sta

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📍 Lansing, MI, United States
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JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way . Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. Financial Analyst – JLL What this job involves: Join our Work Dynamics Client Finance Organization as a Financial Analyst supporting a start-up client account. This collaborative role drives core business analysis and metrics while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and professionalism. You will partner with leaders across the organization to deliver critical financial insights, streamline reporting processes, and identify strategic opportunities that contribute directly to client success and JLL's operational excellence. What your day-to-day will look like: Complete regular and ad-hoc reporting, including client documents, presentations, graphs, and charts while maintaining data integrity across all deliverables. Generate monthly and quarterly reports, running day-to-day forecasting activities and enhancing existing reporting frameworks. Conduct detailed forecast analysis, including Budget versus Actual spending and Forecast versus Actual spending comparisons. Support annual budget planning, preparation, and development while assisting leaders in identifying budget corrections and implementing changes. Organize and maintain team data collection systems, developing efficient reporting strategies through automation and process simplification. Ident

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the role As a Pricing Strategist focused on GTM, you will help shape pricing strategy for B2B enterprise customers across our product portfolio. Working within Finance and partnering with GTM, Sales, and Product, you will focus on pricing analytics, price performance, and the effectiveness of credit programs while contributing to broader commercial strategy. In this role, you will Build regular pricing-performance reviews, analyze discounting and concessions, and turn findings into better pricing guidance. Develop commercial strategies and pricing programs for customer segments such as education, startups, and government. Define objectives and success measures for credit programs and promotions, and evaluate their return on investment. Translate segment goals and product pricing strategy into scalable pricing frameworks and commercial structures. Partner on strategic enterprise deals to align commercial proposals with sound deal economics and pricing strategy. You might thrive in this role if you Approach problems from first principles, identify root causes, and develop clear options for stakeholders. Work effectively through ambiguity and differing perspectives. Understand how sales organizations operate and collaborate well across GTM strategy, Finance, and Product. Bring relevant experience from consulting, strategy and operations, or pricing, particularly work involving analytical teams. Experience with pricing analytics, pricing frameworks, discounting guardrails, or new-product pricing is helpful, but a strictly pricing-specific background is not required. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we mu

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📍 Chicago, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -87.9%

$113.7K – $144.8K/yr

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Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. 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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Support post-sales engagements focused on the optimization, retention, and growth of Stripe’s enterprise customers. Manage a book of customers to drive overall account health, including performance, product adoption, usage velocity, account renewals and growth, referrals, and customer satisfaction. Serve as a trusted payments and product advisor to manage customers by delivering payment performance and industry insights. Perform business reviews to align on user priorities, review payments performance metrics, share company product roadmap and provide guidance on how to optimize the value from the company. Advocate for the customer to internal stakeholders. Share customer feedback and insights to Product Management, Engineering, Support, Marketing, and Sales on the innovation and improvement needed to optimize the company user experience. In coordination with an account team, support book expansion, identify and surface opportunities to ensure customers are successful. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Management, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in enterprise customer success or strategic account management. Must also have four (4) years of experience in each of the following: Supporting expansion of complex accounts, including identifying opportunities, driving business outcomes

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📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $85K/yr

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The Team As Datadog’s in-house product experts, the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team plays a critical role in driving our global success. We enable our customers, from the world’s most innovative startups to the largest enterprises. Through deep technical expertise, relentless problem-solving, and exceptional customer engagement, we educate, guide, and troubleshoot, delivering high-impact solutions that shape the customer experience. Whether through hands-on technical call, in-depth fact findings meeting, or complex investigations, we set the gold standard for technical excellence and customer advocacy. As part of our TEE team, you’ll tackle the most challenging technical problems, collaborate directly with Engineering and Product to refine and evolve our platform, and mentor teams worldwide, elevating the technical bar at every level. Role Summary As part of the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team, you’ll operate at the heart of Datadog’s ecosystem, working at the intersection of Technical Solutions, Engineering, Product, and our Customers. Every challenge you take on will directly impact the performance, scalability, and success of both our clients and our platform. You’ll be in an environment that moves fast, challenges you daily, and rewards curiosity, ownership, and technical excellence. This is your chance to shape the future of observability and security, driving innovation, mentoring teams, and influencing product direction while witnessing your expertise make an immediate and lasting impact. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Develop deep technical expertise and continuously learn as the product evolves. Investigate complex escalations, lead high-stakes technical calls, and drive solutions for

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our product teams work across research, engineering, product, data, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to people and businesses around the world. Design plays a critical role in making powerful AI intuitive, useful, and trustworthy. We hold a high bar for quality and build experiences that earn users’ confidence, while moving quickly and learning from real-world feedback. We favor early validation and continuous refinement over waiting until every detail is perfect. About the Role We’re looking for a Product Design Leader to shape how startups, small businesses, and growing teams discover, adopt, and unlock lasting value from Codex and ChatGPT. You’ll lead design across the B2B growth journey, creating experiences that turn the potential of AI into meaningful, everyday impact for this user base. This role is a mix of team leadership and hands-on design execution. You’ll lead and develop a small team of designers, contribute directly to high-impact projects, and help set the standard for impactful, simple, user-centric experiences. You balance exceptional craft with momentum, creating a culture where the team launches, learns, and improves quickly. You already use tools such as Codex to extend what you can build. As a leader, you help designers strengthen their judgment, confidence, and influence through clear and actionable feedback. You’re also a highly effective cross-functional partner who brings people together, navigates ambiguity, and builds alignment through clear communication and collaborative problem-solving. Codex is on an extraordinary trajectory, and this role offers a rare opportunity to work across both sides of the product: the consumer experiences through which people first discover and adopt our technology, and the business experiences that help teams use it together. You’ll bring a high bar for craft, strong product judgment, and comfor

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We're looking for a Founding Account Executive to launch Vanta's downmarket business across Latin America. This is a unique opportunity to build a market from the ground up. As one of the first sellers in the region, you'll help shape our go-to-market strategy, establish repeatable sales motions, and lay the foundation for future growth. You'll own the full sales cycle across a diverse customer base - from founder-led startups to fast-growing businesses - balancing high-velocity, self-sourced opportunities with more complex deals. Vanta is at a pivotal moment. We've surpassed $300M ARR and continue to outpace our growth targets while maintaining industry-leading customer satisfaction. As we expand our global footprint, this role offers the chance to make an outsized impact on both our business and your career. If you're excited by the opportunity to build something from scratch, thrive in ambiguity, and want to help define Vanta's next chapter in Latin America, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll do as a Founding AE at Vanta: Own the end-to-end sales cycle for downmarket accounts (0-400 employees) across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile Run fast and dynamic deal cycles independently Build and execute outbound strategies to generate pipeline across core LatAm markets, working clos

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As the Vice President, Professional Services, Customer Success & Support at Vanta, you will lead our existing Customer Success and Support organizations and build Vanta’s Professional Services function from the ground up. You will refine and define the delivery model, team, service offerings, and standards that accelerate customer time-to-value across every segment we serve. Vanta's mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We help companies automate compliance, security, and risk management so they can move fast without sacrificing trust. Our GTM organization is at the center of that mission, bringing Vanta's agentic trust platform to companies at every stage of growth, from early stage startups to global enterprises. Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support together form a strategic, high-leverage function within Vanta's GTM org. This VP will own the end-to-end delivery of implementation and consultative engagements that drive measurable outcomes for our customers, as well as ongoing account health, retention, and support across the customer lifecycle. This function will be a key driver of onboarding quality and long-term retention. You will own the combined Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support P&L, retention, support quality metrics, and services margin. Working in close partnership with our Channel & Alliances team, you will also help equip and enable Vanta's partner ecosystem, acting as a bridge between Vanta's delivery standards and partner-led engagements to drive mutual customer success. What you'll do as a Vice President, Professional Services, Customer Success & Su

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📍 Colorado, California, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $85K/yr

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As Datadog’s in-house product experts, the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team plays a critical role in driving our global success. We enable our customers, from the world’s most innovative startups to the largest enterprises. Through deep technical expertise, relentless problem-solving, and exceptional customer engagement, we educate, guide, and troubleshoot, delivering high-impact solutions that shape the customer experience. Whether through hands-on technical call, in-depth fact findings meeting, or complex investigations, we set the gold standard for technical excellence and customer advocacy. As part of our TEE team, you’ll tackle the most challenging technical problems, collaborate directly with Engineering and Product to refine and evolve our platform, and mentor teams worldwide, elevating the technical bar at every level. As part of the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team, you’ll operate at the heart of Datadog’s ecosystem, working at the intersection of Technical Solutions, Engineering, Product, and our Customers. Every challenge you take on will directly impact the performance, scalability, and success of both our clients and our platform. You’ll be in an environment that moves fast, challenges you daily, and rewards curiosity, ownership, and technical excellence. This is your chance to shape the future of observability and security, driving innovation, mentoring teams, and influencing product direction while witnessing your expertise make an immediate and lasting impact. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Develop deep technical expertise and continuously learn as the product evolves. Investigate complex escalations, lead high-stakes technical calls, and drive solutions for our most critical customer cha

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📍 Colorado, California, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $85K/yr

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The Team As Datadog’s in-house product experts, the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team plays a critical role in driving our global success. We enable our customers, from the world’s most innovative startups to the largest enterprises. Through deep technical expertise, relentless problem-solving, and exceptional customer engagement, we educate, guide, and troubleshoot, delivering high-impact solutions that shape the customer experience. Whether through hands-on technical call, in-depth fact findings meeting, or complex investigations, we set the gold standard for technical excellence and customer advocacy. As part of our TEE team, you’ll tackle the most challenging technical problems, collaborate directly with Engineering and Product to refine and evolve our platform, and mentor teams worldwide, elevating the technical bar at every level. Role Summary As part of the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team, you’ll operate at the heart of Datadog’s ecosystem, working at the intersection of Technical Solutions, Engineering, Product, and our Customers. Every challenge you take on will directly impact the performance, scalability, and success of both our clients and our platform. You’ll be in an environment that moves fast, challenges you daily, and rewards curiosity, ownership, and technical excellence. This is your chance to shape the future of observability and security, driving innovation, mentoring teams, and influencing product direction while witnessing your expertise make an immediate and lasting impact. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Develop deep technical expertise and continuously learn as the product evolves. Investigate complex escalations, lead high-stakes technical calls, and drive solutio

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📍 United States· Full-time
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Note: if you are an intern, new grad, staff, front-end, or full-stack applicant, please do not apply using this link and visit our jobs page for those specific postings. 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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team MaaS sub-organizations include Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Banking as a Service (BaaS), and Crypto. Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of core Stripe products and platforms. These offerings facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users. The teams that fall under the MaaS umbrella include Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Crypto, and Banking as a Service (BaaS). Together, these teams work to ensure Stripe users have the robust financial infrastructure and tools they need to power their businesses on a global scale. Exact team matching for one of the subteams begins during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here. What you'll do We're looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform that enterprises and SMBs use. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams—from Infrastructure to Product—at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolvin

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📍 United States· Full-time
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Partner Solutions Architect, Technology Partners 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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team As a member of the Partner Solutions Architecture (PSA) team, you'll be responsible for providing technical guidance to Stripe's technology partners. Our goal is to drive growth through co-solutioning, education, and enablement with our partner organization. The right candidate will be a technical liaison to the Stripe Partner Development Manager. This will involve creating technical business plans for technology partners, including identifying, incubating, and bringing to market service and solution offerings built on or with Stripe. A Partner Solutions Architect is someone who is intellectually curious, open, and entrepreneurial. What you'll do As a member of the team, PSAs build consultative relationships with executives and technical decision-makers in the customer's organization to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving business-critical challenges. We architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth. Responsibilities Work with key technology partners to build out their Stripe capabilities and solutions to grow their business and drive non-linear growth Develop and execute enablement plans Be at the forefront of technical discussions and solution deep-dives with technology partners on the value Stripe can provide to their clients Engage with CTOs, engineering, and other technical leads at ke

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