Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups) at Stripe | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Rezi

Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups) at Stripe

Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups)

Stripe · Chicago, Illinois, United States

1 weeks ago

Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups)

Stripe · Chicago, Illinois, United States

11 days ago
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About the Role

The Solutions Engineering team at Metronome is a technical group that sits at the intersection of sales, account management, product, R&D, and operations. This role owns the technical side of the customer lifecycle from discovery calls through demos, POCs, technical scoping, and handover to post-sales groups. You will be trained to grow across these vectors.

Responsibilities

  • Learn to tell a clear value story about how and where Metronome solves challenges and creates opportunities in a modern monetization stack.
  • Assist in planning, building, and running customized demos of Metronome for various buyer personas.
  • Become proficient in discovery to understand prospect challenges.
  • Travel to meet prospects in the field for workshops, conferences, and on-sites.
  • Land deals for exciting software companies, from startups to enterprise SaaS.
  • Own knowledge areas, projects, tools, and market segments within the Solutions Engineering team.
  • Run Proofs of Concept with clearly-defined success criteria.
  • Represent the Solutions Engineering group as a deal team member.
  • Handle detailed scoping to ensure customers are set up for success post-sales.
  • Build relationships with people at prospect organizations, from operators to C-Suite executives.
  • Design integrations of Metronome into prospect systems.
  • Act as a pricing and packaging consultant, influencing the direction of future customers.

Requirements

  • 1-3 years of experience in technical and/or customer-facing roles involving SaaS products (e.g., engineering, solutions, technical account management/consulting).
  • Academic background in a technical area with high EQ.
  • Relentless passion for being a hand-raiser; viewing big challenges and small tasks as opportunities.
  • Growth mindset for learning quickly, adapting, and operating in fast-moving startup environments.
  • Exceptional communication skills for conversing with technical, go-to-market, and finance stakeholders.
  • Excitement for building and improving GTM playbooks and processes.
  • Knowledge of the quote-to-cash space, including integrating with or interacting with tools like Salesforce, NetSuite, CPQs, etc. (preferred).
  • Experience as a software engineer, product manager, or in other technical roles (preferred).
  • Experience in a pure sales role, particularly selling to technical buyers or as a founding/early salesperson at a startup (preferred).
  • Experience with logs, metrics, billing, finance, or other infrastructure or financial tooling and concepts (preferred).

Skills

  • Technical communication
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Financial stakeholder communication
  • SaaS product knowledge
  • Customer lifecycle management
  • Demo creation and delivery
  • Proof of Concept execution
  • Technical scoping
  • Integration design
  • Pricing and packaging consultation
  • Salesforce
  • NetSuite
  • CPQ

Location

  • Worldwide

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • 1-3 years

Education Level

  • Technical academic background

About the Company

  • Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet.
  • Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies, now a Stripe product.
  • Metronome's platform computes hundreds of millions of invoices per billing period and scales rapidly.
  • The team includes founders with successful startup experience and Stripe employees with experience scaling teams through hypergrowth.