Specialist Solutions Architect - Tax
About the job
- At least 7 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions architect, solutions consultant, or sales engineer for a global software enterprise.
- At least 3 years of accounting, indirect tax, or tax compliance experience within a technical sales organization.
- Experience working with or implementing a tax automation software solution.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns, with the ability to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- A passion for learning and staying up to date with indirect tax laws and emerging compliance requirements.
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners.
- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment.
- Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe Tax to accelerate opportunities.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of global indirect taxes, including VAT, GST, sales and use tax, and mandatory e-invoicing requirements, and how automated compliance solutions help online businesses meet their obligations.
- Provide solutions and recommendations to B2C, B2B, and platform business models on integrating Stripe Tax for end-to-end indirect tax compliance.
- Conduct deep discovery of customers' current processes and needs to architect solutions that drive key implementation decisions and accelerate deals.
- Create and share best practices and reusable assets, such as reference architectures, to enhance the quality and efficiency of the broader sales and pre-sales organizations.
- Partner closely with the Tax product sales team and actively drive opportunities for Stripe's largest customers, leading Tax solution strategy and owning key customer relationships.
- Serve as a Voice of the Customer to drive product and feature request prioritization.
- Identify product, industry, implementation, and competitive trends, and provide actionable insights to product stakeholders and sales to influence Stripe's Tax product roadmap.
- Act as an escalation point to drive complex technical issues to resolution with Stripe's engineering team.
- Represent the technical health of the business on quarterly sales forecast calls and highlight deal blockers with proposed solutions.
- Support marketing events, including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.
- Collaborate closely with sales and pre-sales teams to drive pipeline and revenue targets, educate product and engineering teams on market trends, and influence the product roadmap.
- Develop deep relationships with senior customer business leaders and grow Stripe's solution offerings with new and existing customers.
- Create reusable assets and coach others on complex, high-value opportunities to scale the broader organization.
- Deep familiarity with compliance subjects including VAT, GST, B2B invoices, mandatory e-invoicing (Peppol and national mandates), sales and use tax, exemption certificates, and tax IDs.
- Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications.
- Experience with competing tax automation solutions such as Avalara or Vertex.
- Pre-sales experience with enterprise customers.
About the company
Stripe builds payment software that businesses of all sizes plug into their websites and apps to accept money online and in person. After its public launch in 2011, it won over internet startups by letting developers start taking payments with a few lines of code. Businesses use it to take cards and digital wallets, block fraud, bill subscriptions, and pay out sellers on online marketplaces, while Stripe earns a fee on each payment plus charges for add-on tools. Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010, and it is based in South San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland. In 2016, John Collison, then 26, became the world's youngest self-made billionaire.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Private
Total Funding
$8.7B
Headquarters
South San Francisco, California
Founded
2010
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- February 2026 results: Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in 2025, up 34%, roughly 1.6% of world GDP.
- Equity keeps gaining value: a February 2026 employee share sale valued Stripe at $159 billion, 74% above a year earlier.
- AI leaders run on Stripe: it says 88% of the Forbes AI 50 companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, use it.
What critics are saying
- Cashing out depends on company-run share sales: Stripe's leaders called staying private "a growing advantage" in August 2026.
- A big AI shopping launch faltered: OpenAI scaled back ChatGPT's Instant Checkout, built with Stripe, in March 2026.
- Washington is watching who it cuts off: the FTC warned Stripe in March 2026 against dropping customers over their beliefs.
What makes Stripe unique
- Many founders start on Stripe: it says 25% of new Delaware corporations are created through Atlas, its company-setup service.
- It owns a crypto payments arm: Stripe paid $1.1 billion in 2025 for Bridge, which moves money in dollar-pegged stablecoins.
- Software is a second business: February 2026 projections put Stripe's billing and tax tools on a $1 billion annual pace.
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Benefits
Inclusive coverage - We provide a thoughtful and balanced set of benefits that allow Stripes to be their best selves and do great work. Whether that means offering comprehensive mental, physical, and medical health plans, supporting Stripes' financial futures, providing fertility benefits and parental leave, or making sure Stripes have access to healthy food at the office, our robust programs put Stripes and their families first.
Growth by way of learning - We are voracious learners and teachers. Our Education team delivers an onboarding and product training curriculum for all new Stripes, and hosts expert-led courses on things like project management fundamentals and macroeconomics. Beyond the formal program, Stripes are constantly sharing knowledge with each other through conversation, documentation, reading groups, and informal talks.
A principled approach to food - The food program holds a special place in Stripe's history and future. These Stripes come to our kitchen from a breadth of backgrounds and experiences, and focus on one proposition—respect. This is apparent not only in the local ingredients they work with or in the gracious, teamwork-driven buffet lines, but also in their approach to growing a global team through sustainable food practices and minimal waste.
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size – from new startups to public companies – use Stripe’s software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.
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