Overview

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform with a mission to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the team

The AI Build team is a new industry-focused team building with leading AI companies. It owns strategic proof-of-concept engagements pre- and post-sales.

What you will do

Work directly with frontier AI companies on payments, billing, and monetization infrastructure, owning complex proof-of-concept engagements from scoping through activation.

Responsibilities

  • Own strategic proof-of-concept engagements end to end
  • Build with customers, prototyping alongside their engineers
  • Design across Stripe, spanning multiple products and deciding between configuration, integration, custom work, and core changes
  • Close 0 to 1 gaps
  • Influence the product roadmap
  • Lead cross-functionally
  • Create repeatable patterns: prototypes, reference architectures, and playbooks
  • Stay close to the AI frontier

Who you are

A customer-oriented technical builder who thrives in ambiguity.

Minimum requirements

  • 7+ years in customer-facing technical delivery, solutions engineering, implementation, technical program management, or a related role
  • Owned complex engagements from discovery through activation, pre- and post-sales
  • Success in ambiguous 0 to 1 environments
  • Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, architecture, and data flows
  • Rapid prototyping with AI coding harnesses such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
  • Working proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Ruby
  • Trusted relationships with customer engineers, founders, and senior stakeholders
  • Ability to lead through influence
  • Startup speed, Slack-first working style

As an early member of Stripe’s AI industry team, you will help shape partnerships with frontier AI companies.