No applications. Teams find and message you directly.
Join Stripe as an Account Executive for Funded Startups, helping innovative startups leverage Stripe's financial infrastructure to grow and succeed.
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.About the team
The Funded Startups team is dedicated to winning all top venture capital backed startups in EMEA. We achieve this by combining subject matter expertise with robust collaboration within the startup ecosystem. Our focus is on identifying and partnering with high-potential startups, assisting them in monetizing their products, scaling globally, and creating new revenue streams.What you’ll do
- Identify high-potential prospective startups from inbound leads and outbound prospecting
- Own the full sales cycle from lead to close for startups and small/medium businesses
- Develop and implement full sales cycle strategies for driving product adoption, net new product sales, and client retention
- Represent Stripe in the local startup ecosystem and help us grow our footprint further
- Work together with the investment partnership team on VC portfolio analyses and founder-focused gatherings
- Work with the other in-country go-to-market teams as well as our Dublin HQ on shared initiatives and represent the Funded Startups team at regional events
- Solve complex client needs and work across product, sales, risk, and operations teams to improve our product
- Generate your own leads through cold calling, blitzing, research, networking, and driving your territory
- Make every potential Stripe user happy with every interaction, regardless of deal size
- Identify and understand users’ pain points to propose Stripe solutions
- Make sure that internal teams are set up for users’ success by coordinating with other Stripe teams such as Solution architects, SDRs, Marketing, Product and many more
Who you are
We’re looking for a well-rounded strategic seller who can build strong relationships with Stripe’s users and manage high velocity deal cycles. Our funded users are some of the most ambitious and demanding customers and a successful candidate will match their curiosity, speed and passion to build things by overcoming challenges. You are solution-oriented, adaptable, have a keen interest in further developing yourself and know how to get things done. You do enjoy a highly-technical sales cycle and working with a diverse group of internal stakeholders.Minimum requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a closing sales role or alternatively a background in product
- Track record of overachieving against ambitious sales targets
- Ability to understand complex technical ecosystems and build great relationships with technical customers
- Analytical ability to manage complex sales cycles
- Expertise in building territory plans to identify high payoff activities and initiatives in your market
- Experience managing projects with input from cross-functional teams
- A knack for working well with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally
- Ability and motivation to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
Preferred requirements
- Prior experience in payments
- Prior experience in a sales and/or customer-facing role at a high growth technology company
- Prior experience in the startup ecosystem, either as founder or operator in a fast-scaling company
- Interest in business models and monetization