Account Executive, Stripe
Billing, French or German Speaker
€179.4-269.2k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
€179.4-269.2k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- You are an adept salesperson, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization, including CEO, CFO, and CTO
- You are 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 highly analytical and has a track record for improving the processes and organizations around you
- 7+ 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/or expansion of existing users
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
- The ability to deal effectively 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
- An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” 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
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in French (or German) and English
- A sense of humor
Desirable
- 3+ years of experience specifically selling financial services or similar software
- Experience in solution selling
- Proven ability to sell in a fast paced environment
What the job involves
- Product Sales is a team of deep functional and technical specialists who both lead and advise on deals for the most strategically important products in Stripe’s portfolio
- Automation (RFA) Product Sales is tasked with attacking a $100B market opportunity for back office finance automation across billing, tax, revenue reporting, and data
- As a Billing Account Executive at Stripe, you will use your sales and product expertise to help drive growth through both existing and new to Stripe customers
- You will collaborate with the core sales, marketing, product marketing, and product teams to develop deep product and industry knowledge and drive strategic deals
- You will be instrumental in leading in depth product discussions with existing and prospective customers – and building and executing against our go to market strategy
- Drive revenue to achieve and over perform on target and KPIs
- 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
- Deeply 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
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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