Forward Deployed AI Accelerator, Marketing
Application analysis
Forward Deployed AI Accelerator, Marketing at Stripe is a forward deployed payments infrastructure role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout. Key signals from the listing: 5+ years experience.
About Stripe
Stripe embeds engineers with large merchants to integrate payments, billing, and financial products. The role is anchored in United States, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Forward Deployed AI Accelerator, Marketing
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Forward Deployed AI Accelerator, Marketing to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Stripe hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- This role is tied to United States — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Stripe
- Demonstrate API design taste with a concrete example — Stripe will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate rigor with edge cases with a concrete example — Stripe will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Loops often include integration design and debugging — show you can reason about money movement, idempotency, and failure modes.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on stripe.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
Who we are
About Stripe
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.
About the team
The Stripe Marketing organization is undergoing a fundamental transformation in how it works. We're building a team of Forward Deployed AI Accelerators (FDAs) embedded directly with marketing cohorts to make AI the default mode for all work — not an occasional tool, but the foundation of how every marketer at Stripe executes. Today, marketers are already achieving remarkable results — building their own data dashboards, creating agents that compress multi-day processes, and authoring tools that accelerate workflows. The FDA team exists to take what's working and systematically scale it across the entire marketing organization.
What you'll do
As a Forward Deployed AI Accelerator, you'll be embedded with a group of approximately 20 marketers organized by functional team, shared workflow, or location. You'll build alongside them, and you'll help them fundamentally change how they operate. Your measure of success is the number of workflows you've permanently transformed and the extent to which those in your group start any task with an AI tool.
Responsibilities
Identify and document the highest-leverage workflow transformations within your group's day-to-day work by deeply understanding their processes and outputs • Build custom tools, agents, automations, and skills tailored to each marketer's specific
responsibilities
Coach and partner with each marketer through a progressive journey — from awareness, to first win, to regular AI integration, to full workflow transformation, to self-sufficiency • Teach marketers to build and iterate on their own tools over time, creating independence Recognize patterns across your cohort and systematically scale what works — a tool built for one marketer will be reusable for their peers Document every tool, playbook, and transformation pattern you build so the entire FDA team uses each other's work Share wins visibly within your cohort and with leadership to build momentum, inspire, and celebrate success Track individual and cohort progress rigorously against a defined maturity model, moving every marketer toward self-sustaining, AI-first work Prepare marketers for an agentic future — not just prompt writing, but designing, building, and overseeing autonomous, multi-agent workflows
Who you are
We're looking for people who have already lived the transformation they'll be driving for others. You've used AI to fundamentally change how you work — not as a novelty, but as your default operating mode. You are a deep AI practitioner. You build agents, automations, and tools fluently. You don't just know what AI can do in theory — you've built things that changed how real work gets done. You build in real time alongside the people you support. You are an outstanding coach and communicator. You meet people wherever they are. You create desire for progress, and you adapt your approach to each person. You understand marketing work. You either have direct experience in marketing or quickly learn the workflows, deliverables, tools, and pressures of your assigned group. You know that understanding someone's work is a prerequisite to transforming it. You are a pattern recognizer. When you build something that works for one person, you immediately see how it applies to others. You think in systems, not one-off solutions. You are high-caliber, persistent, and versatile. Your skills and experience are valuable across the company. You're the kind of person who succeeds in many roles at Stripe. You bias toward action and speed. You'd rather show someone a working proof-of-concept on their own deliverable today than present a polished deck about what's theoretically possible next quarter. You are comfortable with ambiguity and evolution. This is a new team building a new operating model. The playbook will be rewritten as we learn. You thrive in that environment.
Minimum
requirements
5+ years of professional experience in a role requiring diagnostic thinking, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration Demonstrated, hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, agents, automations, or workflows that transformed real work processes (not just using AI as a chatbot — building with it) Track record of coaching, teaching, or enabling others — formally or informally — with evidence that people you've helped actually changed how they work Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and adapt your style to different learners Comfort working across multiple workstreams and relationships simultaneously (you'll be supporting approximately 20 marketers at varying stages of their AI journey)
Preferred
qualifications
Experience in marketing, marketing operations, growth, or a closely adjacent function Proficiency with AI development tools and platforms (e.g., Claude, Claude Code, Codex, custom agent frameworks, API integrations, workflow automation tools) Experience with change management, organizational transformation, or large-scale enablement programs Familiarity with marketing technology stacks (e.g., Marketo, Salesforce, analytics platforms, content management tools) Experience building and scaling internal tools, templates, or playbooks that were adopted beyond your immediate team Background in consulting, solutions engineering, technical account management, or other client-facing technical roles