Account Executive, Product Sales - Managed Payments

About the team

Stripe is investing in building out its Global Product Sales team to actively engage and drive prospects and customers to adopt Stripe Managed Payments.

Managed Payments helps businesses to sell their digital products globally, and let Stripe manage global tax, fraud prevention, dispute management, and customer support for transactions.  Stripe's Global Product Sales team is at the forefront of driving revenue and growth. As trusted business partners and strategic salespeople, our goal is to help users understand Stripe products and integrate them with ease so they can concentrate on what's most important to them: their business. We are known for our product knowledge, sales expertise, rigorous thinking and user-first approach to problem solving. Within Stripe, Product Sales proudly serve as a critical source of user feedback and market intelligence, with direct influence on Stripe's product roadmap and growth strategy.

What you'll do

Stripe Managed Payments is Stripe’s Merchant of Record solution, enabling businesses to offload the complexity of global selling to Stripe. We officially announced and launched Managed Payments this year, and are looking for a self-starter who can operate in the ‘build’ phase of products and go to market, capitalising on new opportunities and helping to scale rapidly.

Managed Payments is a key strategic driver within Stripe Payments to support our users with global selling and MoR compliance. As an Account Executive for Managed Payments, you will use your sales and deep product expertise to help drive growth in this space to users across EMEA. You will collaborate with product, engineering, legal, marketing and other GTM teams to develop deep product and industry knowledge and drive complex 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.

You are an adept sales professional, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization. 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. You're excited to become an expert and to share your knowledge. You're an organized self-starter, an excellent communicator who is analytical and has a track record for improving the processes and organizations around you.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for driving revenue, increasing attach rates and new client acquisition of key users in EMEA, utilizing the MEDDIIC deal qualification and opportunity management
• Develop relationships with executive stakeholders and lead discussions with existing and prospective customers
• Deep product and payments expertise to act as a subject matter expert for Managed Payments, Payments and MoR solutioning..
• Deeply understand the sales process and competitors for Stripe in this space and serve as both an internal and customer-facing expert in these product areas
• Engage with Product and Engineering teams to synthesize and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe's product roadmap
• Contribute to the development of go-to-market playbooks alongside product, marketing, sales and technical services stakeholders
• Work collaboratively and cross-functionally across the organization to help shape Stripe's products and solutions to meet customer needs

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 6+ years of customer facing experience at a leading technology or payments company and a track record of top performance
• Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior business leaders
• Proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with cross-functional business partners
• Self-starter capable of operating independently to drive meaningful business results
• Enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to understand complex technical and product-led requirements and craft solutions across multiple stakeholders
• Proven experience to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and changing requirements
• True team player - always
• Humor is very welcomed!