Stripe

Account Executive, AI Sales

Stripe$150K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of sales experience, ideally in technical products
  • 4+ years managing complex sales cycles with Enterprise organizations
  • Strong understanding of technical requirements for solution crafting
  • Proven experience developing and executing multi-unit account plans
  • Exceptional ability to collaborate across diverse teams and stakeholders
  • Advanced presentation skills for engaging with large groups
  • Demonstrated capability in leading intricate negotiations with customized agreements

Responsibilities

  • Engage with AI industry customers to devise and implement long-term sales strategies
  • Manage the entire sales cycle from developing business cases to closing deals
  • Create account plans to drive growth through existing and new revenue streams
  • Strategize and negotiate large, complex customer renewals
  • Build relationships with executive stakeholders to identify and solve their challenges
  • Coordinate meetings with relevant external stakeholders to enhance customer relationships
  • Contribute to sales process improvements and the development of Stripe's sales culture

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with leading AI companies
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Marketing
  • Engage in a fast-paced environment focused on innovation
  • Play a role in shaping the global economy through Stripe's platform
  • Contribute to a team centered on learning and sales excellence
Full Job Description
About the team

The AI team is focused on one of Stripe's most strategic growth areas: enabling the monetization and scaling of AI-native and AI-enabled businesses. We're in a unique position - partnering with the world's most ambitious AI companies (the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, etc) building on the frontier of artificial intelligence -- across infrastructure, foundation models, agents, and applications -- to help them grow and commercialize globally using Stripe's full financial stack.

As part of Stripe's GTM / Sales organization, this team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape Stripe's AI GTM strategy and ensure that the world's leading AI companies -- from early-stage innovators to the largest public players -- choose Stripe as their monetization platform.
What you'll do
  • Work with existing Stripe customers in the AI Industry to develop and execute long-term sales strategies to expand Stripe's revenue
  • Own the full sales cycle, from business case development, to deal structuring and negotiating, to close
  • Develop account plans and cross sell into your list of strategic AI customers, driving growth through expansion and new revenue streams
  • Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewals
  • Develop relationships with executive stakeholders within your book of business, deeply understanding problems they are solving and helping drive to solutions
  • Be responsible for account mapping and coordinating effective meetings with the appropriate external stakeholders expanding the customer relationship
  • Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process and help shape the Stripe sales culture
Minimum requirements
  • 13+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a technical product, with a track record of top performance
  • 4+ years leading complex sales cycles with Enterprise organizations required
  • Ability to understand technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products
  • Ability to develop and execute account plans spanning multiple business units across complex organizations
  • A knack for working well with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
  • Strong presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
  • Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements
  • Superior verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
  • Strong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the space

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
Learn more about Stripe
Size
4,000 employees
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Founded
2010

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