Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups)

Stripe; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe, including the Metronome product, seeks a Solutions Engineer to own technical demos and POCs for buyers across engineering, product management, and finance. You will craft compelling value stories and collaborate with sales to drive deals.

You’ll run tightly scoped PoCs, grow knowledge across market segments, and contribute to post-sales success with strong technical leadership.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years in technical or customer-facing SaaS roles.
• Excellent communication across technical, GTM and finance stakeholders.
• Growth mindset for rapid learning in a fast-moving startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Tell a clear value story and plan customized demos for buyers.
• Own proofs of concept with clearly defined success criteria.
• Represent Solutions Engineering during deal cycles and post-sales handover.
• Build and improve GTM playbooks and processes.

Skills

SaaS experience

Communication skills

Growth mindset

Startup experience

GTM playbooks

Customer-facing

Education

Technical degree

Tools

Salesforce

NetSuite

CPQ tools

Job description

About Stripe / Metronome

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.

Who we are

About Stripe / Metronome

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.

Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. With Metronome, now a Stripe product, companies can launch products faster, offer any pricing model, and streamline finance workflows without writing code. Our platform computes hundreds of millions of invoices per billing period and continues to scale rapidly to accommodate new customers. We save them days of development time and manual invoicing, enabling them to use their billing data to better serve their customers. Our customers love our product and approach, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like OpenAI, Hubspot, NVIDIA, Confluent, Anthropic, and many others. You'll be joining an experienced team that includes founders who have successfully built and sold startups, alongside Stripes with direct experience scaling teams through hypergrowth at companies like Dropbox, Palantir, and MongoDB. You'll be joining Stripe and be part of the holistic Stripe platform approaching monetization.

About The Team

The Solutions Engineering team at Metronome is a technical group that sits at the intersection of everything Metronome does: sales, account management, product, R&D, and operations. Bottom line, we own the technical side of the customer lifecycle from the very first discovery call through demos, POC, technical scoping, and handover to our post-sales groups. We act like a producer to get the show running with Metronome. This role will train you to grow across these vectors.

What you’ll do

As a member of the Solutions Engineering team, your first month will be:

• Learning to tell a clear value story about how and where Metronome solves challenges and creates opportunities in a modern monetization stack.
• Assisting in planning, building, and running customized demos of Metronome for buyers with many different personas (engineering, product management, operations, finance, etc).

In Your First 3 Months, You Can Expect To

• Become proficient in what discovery is and using it to understand what challenges our prospects face
• Travel to meet prospects in the field. Workshops, conferences, on‑sites — we believe in meeting our customers in person whenever possible. Anywhere in the world.
• Land deals for some of the most exciting names in software, from startups to enterprise SaaS.

In 6 Months You’ll Be

• Owning knowledge areas, projects, tools, and market segments in the Solutions Engineering team.
• Running tight Proofs of Concept with clearly‑defined success criteria that get us to the technical win.
• Representing the Solutions Engineering group as a deal team member on your own.
• Handling detailed scoping to ensure that customers are set up for success post-sales.

In Your First Year You’ll Have

• Built relationships with people at our prospect organizations, from day-to-day operators to C‑Suite executives.
• Designed integrations of Metronome into prospect systems and acted as a pricing and packaging consultant, influencing the direction of our future customers.

As a fast-moving unit within Stripe, there’s a lot still to figure out and tremendous room for high‑agency people to have impact and make a difference. If this excites you as much as it excites us, let’s talk.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 1‑3 years of experience working in technical and/or customer‑facing roles involving SaaS products (for example, roles like engineering, solutions, technical account management/ consulting). Academic background in a technical area with high EQ is also sought after.
• Relentless passion for being a hand‑raiser. Big challenges are exciting, small tasks are an opportunity for a win. From landing big clients to simply cleaning up an old dashboard you’re interested in learning and getting things done.
• Growth mindset is critical in being able to learn new things quickly, adapt on the fly, and operate in fast-moving startup environments that value high agency.
• Exceptional communication skills -- technical, go‑to‑market, and finance stakeholders should all feel like comfortable counterparts in conversing with you.
• Excitement for building and improving GTM playbooks and processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the quote‑to‑cash space, including integrating with or otherwise interacting with tools like Salesforce, NetSuite, CPQs, etc.
• Experience as a software engineer, product manager, or in other technical roles.
• Experience in a pure sales role, particularly selling to technical buyers in engineering and product organizations or selling as a founding or early salesperson at a startup.
• Experience with logs, metrics, billing, finance, or other infrastructure or financial tooling and concepts.

In‑office expectations

Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $126,100 - $189,100. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we’re looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.