# Specialist Solutions Architect, Tax

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Solutions Architecture, tax compliance, vat, gst, sales tax, e-invoicing, REST APIs, Software Engineering, architecture patterns, Pre-Sales, avalara, vertex
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Solutions Architect specializing in Stripe Tax. Provide expert guidance on global indirect tax compliance (VAT, GST, sales tax) to enterprise customers, architect integrations, influence product roadmap as Voice of Customer, and support sales/pre-sales teams to close complex deals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe Tax to accelerate opportunities
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of global indirect taxes—VAT, GST, sales and use tax, 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 how to integrate 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

## Minimum Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions architect, solutions consultant, or sales engineer for a global software enterprise
- 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, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both 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

## Preferred Qualifications
- Deep familiarity with compliance subjects including VAT, GST, B2B invoices, mandatory e-invoicing (Peppol, 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

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