Stripe

Strategic Account Executive, AI Sales

Stripe$180K — $220K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 13+ years of sales experience with technical products for large enterprises
  • 4+ years leading complex sales cycles with Enterprise organizations
  • Demonstrated success in closing bespoke, transformational partnerships
  • Ability to build and maintain C-suite relationships
  • Proficient in understanding complex technical architectures and crafting solutions
  • History of shaping sales practices and mentoring peers
  • Strong interest in technology, particularly within the AI industry

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a key customer to achieve their business goals with Stripe
  • Manage the full commercial sales cycle from development to closure
  • Create a strategic account plan to grow Stripe's presence within the customer
  • Negotiate complex renewals and strategic agreements
  • Establish deep relationships with executive stakeholders to address their problems
  • Lead team projects to enhance AI tool usage and sales processes
  • Coordinate discussions with stakeholders to boost customer relations

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
  • Access to advanced AI tools and resources
  • Participation in a fast-paced, innovative work environment
  • Involvement in shaping sales strategy and practices
  • Collaboration with high-profile clients in the AI industry
Full Job Description
What you'll do

Work collaboratively with one of Stripe's most strategic customers to realize their business goals. Our customers in the AI Industry move fast, you'll work alongside your customer to develop and execute a multi-year partnership strategy that accelerates their ambitions with Stripe as a critical partner.

This is a role that will require you to be an active participant in Stripe's product strategy across the company, acting as a proxy for your customer within the walls of Stripe. You will interact with executives internally and externally to ensure your customer's needs are well understood and prioritized. You will:
  • Own full commercial sales cycles and partnership opportunities, from business case development, to deal structuring and negotiating, to close
  • Develop a strategic account plan to expand Stripe's commercial footprint within your customer's business, driving growth through cross-sell, expansion, and new revenue streams
  • Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewals
  • Develop relationships with executive stakeholders within your customer's business, deeply understanding problems they are trying to solve and helping them find durable solutions
  • Be responsible for account mapping and coordinating meaningful conversations with the appropriate stakeholders, internally and externally, to expand the customer relationship
  • Lead and contribute to team projects, further Stripe's use of AI tools and agents, and help refine our sales processes and culture in Stripe's GTM organization
Who you are

We're looking for someone who operates with vision and urgency at the highest levels of enterprise sales. You combine deep commercial creativity with the executive presence to negotiate landmark agreements, and the strategic judgment to know which problems matter most. You thrive in ambiguity, create clarity for others, and have a track record of building and closing the largest, most complex deals in your organization's history.
Minimum requirements
  • Demonstrated success closing transformational partnerships with bespoke commercial structures
  • 13+ years of sales experience selling technical products to large enterprises, with a sustained track record of top performance and quota overachievement
  • 4+ years leading complex sales cycles with Enterprise organizations required
  • Track record of leading and orchestrating large cross-functional teams through complex deal cycles with competing priorities
  • Proven ability to build and maintain executive relationships at the C-suite level and influence strategic decision-making
  • Ability to understand complex technical architectures and craft creative solutions that span multiple products and commercial models
  • Ability to develop and execute account plans spanning multiple business units across a complex organization and subsidiaries
  • Superior verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to command a room of senior executives
  • Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
  • Strong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the AI industry
  • History of shaping org-wide sales practices, mentoring peers, and contributing to team strategy beyond individual quota attainment
Preferred qualifications
  • Experience selling into or partnering with frontier AI companies, hyperscalers, or developer-first platforms
  • Understanding of AI monetization models (token-based pricing, usage-based billing, consumption entitlements, API rate structures)
  • Prior experience at a high-growth technology company where you helped define the go-to-market approach for a new or nascent market segment
  • Familiarity with Stripe's products and the broader fintech/payments ecosystem

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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