Who we are

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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

What you’ll do

As the head of our Commercial New Business team for DACH, you’ll play an instrumental role in fueling Stripe’s growth in the market through new customer acquisition and setting the long term strategy to Stripe’s trajectory for this user segment. You'll lead and coach high-performing account executives, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with users and prospects. We are looking for an individual who is keen to work alongside a high-performing team of individuals to navigate complex organizations, find new opportunities to make payments a competitive advantage for their businesses, and evolve our joint go-to-market in new ways.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on the Commercial segment in DACH
• Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales metrics
• Be accountable for increasing revenue and new client acquisition at high rates of growth
• Driving deal strategy and execution including strong pipeline development, opportunity/renewal management, and forecasting
• Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle
• Play a personal and direct role in building and maintaining enduring customer relationships, up to C-level
• Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Stripe
• Collaborating closely with key stakeholders across Sales, Product/Connect, Sales Ops, S&O, Marketing, GTM Partnerships, and others
• Participate in industry events to help support positive market awareness

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. 

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of relevant sales experience
• Track record leading sales teams to success in ambiguous environments
• Experience consistently forecasting and managing a high growth business for multiple quarters
• Thrives in settings with a high level of autonomy to create strategy, direction, and structure
• Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance sales team
• Ability to build executive relationships with customers and ecosystem partners
• Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry or business relevant terms
• Proven track record of success within the DACH region
• High professional fluency in German and English

Preferred requirements

• Prior experience in payments
• Prior experience in a sales and/or customer-facing role at a high growth technology company

About the team

The EMEA Startup team is a highly consultative sales team that is responsible for the growth and retention of Stripe’s largest and fastest growing Startup customers. 

What you’ll do

As a Sales Manager for Startups - Early Growers at Stripe, you will be crucial in driving Stripe's expansion by fostering growth among our existing high potential top startups.

 Your role involves leading and coaching a team of high-performing Account Executives, empowering them to achieve ambitious targets. You will also directly engage with users. We seek an individual eager to collaborate with a top-tier team to navigate intricate organizations, identify new opportunities to leverage payments for competitive advantage, and innovate our joint go-to-market strategies.

You will manage a team of Startup AEs, focusing on supporting the growth of the top Startup users in EMEA. This team will partner with high-potential startups in our install base. Your goal is to provide hands-on business consultancy, optimize Stripe integrations, and uncover commercial upsell opportunities for Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on the Funded  Startup segment across EMEA
• Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales metrics
• Prioritise top startup users and be accountable for increasing existing revenue at high rates of growth 
• Driving deal strategy and execution including strong pipeline development, opportunity management, and forecasting
• Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle
• Play a personal and direct role in building and maintaining enduring customer relationships, up to C-level
• Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Stripe
• Collaborating closely with key stakeholders across Sales, Product/Connect, Sales Ops, S&O, Marketing, GTM Partnerships, and others
• Participate in industry events to help support positive market awareness

Minimum requirements

• 8+ years of relevant sales experience - particularly managing existing business accounts
• Experience consistently forecasting and managing a high growth business for multiple quarters
• Thrives in settings with a high level of autonomy to create strategy, direction, and structure
• Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance sales team
• Ability to build executive relationships with customers and ecosystem partners
• Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry or business relevant terms

Preferred requirements

• Experience with and knowledge of the EMEA Startups ecosystem

Who we are

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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

As a Startup Partner within Stripe, you will own the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build market awareness and broad use of Stripe’s payments and applications platform within startup communities.

What you’ll do

Your responsibilities will include identifying appropriate Northern European based early and late stage VCs to target, driving the necessary business and technical relationships with the VC and their portfolio companies to establish new business in those accounts, and to work closely with the northern europe Stripe sales team on day-to-day interactions with the portfolio companies in order to build a long-term channel. You’ll also work closely with the Stripe marketing team on activities that tie in to the startup community.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the Startup Partners team in helping to drive overall Stripe market strategy for startups
• Build engagement plans for top venture capital firms that have infrastructure needs, and drive consistent engagement with their portfolio companies through consultative strategic planning and collaboration.
• Build strategic relationships with founders of portfolio companies to ensure high quality relationship management and a point of escalation for top startups
• Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. sales teams, marketing, legal, support, etc.). Work closely with the VCs and the portfolio companies to ensure they are successful using our web services, making sure they have the technical resources required.
• Mentor startups on their overall technology and business aspects and establish credibility within the startups and investors community
• Represent Stripe in the startup ecosystem and take up speaking opportunities in startup events and platforms
• Take a data-driven view of your work using salesforce.com to measure and forecast accurately

Who you are

The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the CxO/founder level, as well as being technically savvy to highlight the advantages of Stripe. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling partner programs, and work cross-functionally to create great business outcomes. The ability to design strategy and drive execution is a must.

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

• 10-12 years of business development/sales or program/product management or startup/investor experience within the technology industry
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations is key.
• Ability to learn quickly, be creative and take initiative
• Self-reliant, adaptable, decisive, and professional
• Based in Stockholm, Sweden

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with and knowledge of the Venture Capital, Accelerators and Incubators community
• Well networked in the Northern European Startup Ecosystem and should be a regular at key startup events