[Hiring] Account Executive, Existing Business @Stripe

Role Description

As an Account Executive (Existing Business), you will create partnerships between Stripe and the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in the world by helping them to understand how Stripe’s online commerce infrastructure can make payments a competitive advantage for their businesses. Specifically, we’re looking for someone who can execute on long-term sales strategies, engage with internal and external stakeholders, align on technical and business requirements with product teams, build value in competitive situations, lead commercial negotiations, and close deals.

Responsibilities

• Work with existing Startup and SMB Stripe customers to develop and execute long-term sales strategies to expand Stripe’s revenue.
• Own the full sales cycle, from business case development, deal structuring and negotiating, to close and activation.
• Own a named account list and develop account plans for winning and expanding business with high growth technology companies.
• Develop outbound strategies to create and nurture opportunities.
• Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewals.
• Develop relationships with executive stakeholders within your book of business.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a highly technical product to enterprise customers, with a track record of top performance.
• 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 in English.
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
• Strong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the space.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in other CEE languages would be beneficial.
• Experience in fintech/payments is a plus, but not prerequisite.