Strategy & Transformation Advisor (Enterprise Commerce Architecture)

About the Role

As a Strategy and Transformation Advisor, Enterprise Commerce Architecture, you will be the senior strategic advisor for complex enterprise commerce pursuits in AMER. You will help customers develop a clear, prescriptive point of view on how Stripe should fit within their future-state architecture and what that means for their commerce platforms, order management systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and finance estate, customer and loyalty systems, identity, data platforms, fulfillment operations, and engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Shape Enterprise Commerce Transformation Strategy

• Lead executive discovery, strategy, and architecture workshops for Stripe’s most strategic enterprise prospects and users.
• Assess a customer’s current commerce and technology landscape. Identify how payments and financial infrastructure interact with commerce, order management, ERP and finance, customer relationship management (CRM), loyalty, identity, data, fulfillment, and risk systems. Develop a prescriptive future-state point of view for how Stripe can serve as a financial backbone within that architecture.
• Translate business objectives into clear architecture and operating model implications.
• Define the enterprise-level principles, system boundaries, ownership models, integration patterns, data flows, and migration considerations needed to support the target state.
• Create multi-phase, dependency-aware transformation roadmaps that connect Stripe capabilities to measurable business outcomes.

Increase Confidence in Strategic Enterprise Pursuits

• Partner with account teams, enterprise service managers, sales leaders, and senior solutions architects to identify pursuits where enterprise commerce architecture expertise will materially improve customer confidence or decision quality.
• Engage credibly with executive technical stakeholders as a strategic advisor and peer.
• Help customers understand the practical trade-offs between their current architecture and a future state that uses Stripe more deeply.
• Create clear executive narratives, architecture artifacts, transformation roadmaps, and decision materials that make Stripe’s role in the customer’s future state concrete.

Advise and Support Stripe’s and Our Users’ Technical Teams

• Serve as a senior thought partner to Integration Engineers, Solutions Architects, Account Executives, and Strategy and Transformation Consultants on complex enterprise architecture questions.
• Provide guidance on how to frame Stripe’s capabilities within broader enterprise commerce, finance, and data architectures.
• Help user teams work through architecture-level issues.
• Coach internal teams on executive technical storytelling, architecture discovery, and translating technical decisions into business value.

Inform Stripe’s Enterprise Strategy and Product Direction

• Bring recurring customer architecture patterns, friction points, and unmet needs to Product, Engineering, and GTM leadership.
• Identify emerging enterprise commerce trends and translate these trends into relevant Stripe points of view.
• Contribute to Stripe’s differentiated perspective on enterprise commerce transformation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, digital transformation, management consulting, or senior technical advisory roles.
• Significant experience advising large enterprises on complex technology transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with C-suite and vice president-level business and technical leaders.
• Deep understanding of enterprise commerce architecture.
• Strong knowledge of API-first integration, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, data flows, and enterprise operational models.
• Working knowledge of payments and financial infrastructure.
• Ability to connect architecture decisions to business outcomes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.