Stripe

Account Executive, Product Sales

Stripe$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of sales experience in technology with a strong performance record
  • Experience managing a direct sales quota and closing new business
  • Ability to build collaborative relationships with business partners
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and thriving in fast-paced settings
  • Self-starter with a hands-on approach
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong presentation abilities, particularly in stakeholder meetings
  • Experience leading complex negotiations
  • Understanding of complex technical requirements to propose effective solutions

Responsibilities

  • Drive revenue to achieve and exceed sales targets
  • Lead new customer sales and upsell discussions
  • Provide strategic thought leadership for user success and revenue growth in assigned territory
  • Understand and analyze sales process and competitors in software, hardware, and payments
  • Act as an internal and customer-facing expert on Stripe products
  • Synthesize customer feedback to inform product development
  • Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and User Operations teams to enhance growth

Benefits

  • Engagement with a dynamic and innovative team
  • Opportunity to deepen product and industry knowledge
  • Access to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Chance to play a key role in shaping product strategies
  • Ability to make a significant impact on company growth
Full Job Description
What you'll do

As a Billing Account Executive at Stripe, you'll use your sales and product expertise to help drive growth through both existing and new-to-Stripe customers. You'll collaborate with the core sales, marketing, product marketing, and product teams to develop deep product and industry knowledge and drive strategic deals. You'll lead in-depth product discussions with existing and prospective customers and build and execute against our go-to-market strategy.
Responsibilities
  • Drive revenue to achieve and overperform on targets
  • Lead new sales and upsell conversations of Stripe for existing and prospective customers
  • Drive strategic thought leadership within assigned territory to ensure user success and revenue growth
  • Understand the sales process and competitors for Stripe, including software, hardware, and payments
  • Serve as both an internal and customer-facing expert on Stripe, especially for your specialized products
  • Synthesize and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe's product roadmap
  • Engage with Product, Marketing, and User Operations teams to help amplify our growth trajectory
Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

You're an adept salesperson, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization, including CEO, CFO, and CTO. You're used to building value in competitive situations and enjoy working on products that require deep product understanding, combined with technical knowledge. You're as comfortable working with clients as with internal stakeholders (including executives). You're excited to become an expert and to share your knowledge. You're an organized self-starter, an excellent communicator who is detail-oriented and has a track record for improving the processes and organizations around you.

Minimum requirements
  • 8+ years of sales or prospecting experience at a technology company and a track record of top performance
  • Owning a direct sales quota, with direct sales experience closing new business and expanding existing users
  • A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
  • The ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  • A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
  • A hands-on mentality
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
  • Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements
  • Ability to understand complex technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple stakeholders
Preferred qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience selling financial services or similar software
  • Experience in selling billing solutions
  • Proven ability to sell in a fast-paced environment

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
Industry
Founded
2010

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