What you'll doThe role is an operator-builder and change leader: redesigning AMER Sales Development for an AI-first future while raising the bar for human discovery, qualification, user engagement, pipeline progression, and seller handoffs. The leader will partner with AMER Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Sales Development Systems to turn automation capacity into higher-value commercial work and a healthier pipeline.
The Head of AMER Sales Development leads the Core AMER Sales Development team across inbound and outbound motions. This leader directly manages managers and owns qualified pipeline, SQOs, ONR contribution, and talent progression into the wider Sales organization.
Responsibilities- Lead the AMER Sales Development org through a team of sales development managers, who in turn manage the SDRs driving roughly 60% of Stripe's overall sales pipeline
- Set segmentation and coverage strategy across startups, digital natives, commercial, and enterprise accounts, and direct how managers structure their teams to pursue the right leads and accounts for quality and volume
- Own outbound strategy for AMER, including target markets, account and contact prioritization, and multi-touch outreach across email, LinkedIn, video, and phone, and translate that strategy into direction for your managers
- Partner with AMER sales leadership, Marketing, and Sales Development Systems to align pipeline targets, lead routing, and tooling (including agentic outreach and account intelligence systems) with go-to-market priorities
- Develop and coach sales development managers directly, building their people management and pipeline strategy skills, and build bench strength and succession plans across the AMER SDR org
- Manage the org against opportunity count and cumulative revenue generation, reviewing manager-level performance and reallocating coverage or adjusting strategy where the data points to it
- Represent Sales Development in AMER sales leadership planning, bringing an operator's view of pipeline health, capacity, and org productivity
Who you areWe're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for this role.
Minimum requirements- Leader of leaders: proven manager-of-managers leadership, including manager development, organizational design, and accountability through layers.
- AI-first operating leadership: ability to redesign roles, workflows, and capacity around agents and automation while protecting user experience, quality, and sound human judgment.
- Full-funnel ownership: a record of improving qualified pipeline, SQOs, conversion, progression, and revenue outcomes-not activity volume alone.
- Commercial partnership: credibility with Sales and Marketing leaders, including source-mix planning, shared funnel accountability, and seller-handoff design.
- Operating rigor: strong data fluency, consistent management systems, weekly performance reviews, and the ability to separate scalable standards from appropriate experimentation.
- Talent builder: demonstrated ability to develop managers, SDR and internal candidates into future commercial leaders.
- Stakeholder management: ability to navigate complex cross-functional relationships, build consensus with Sales and Marketing leadership, and maintain alignment across competing priorities.
Preferred qualifications- Experience leading AI-assisted sourcing or SDR-in-the-loop workflows.
- Experience with MEDDIC-style qualification, pipeline defibrillation, aging-pipeline recovery, or later-funnel commercial support.
- Experience developing internal AE talent into people leaders or Sales Development managers.
- Deep familiarity with AMER segment design, field-sales coverage, vendor operations, or commercial-systems partnerships.
