Account Executive, Funded Startups - New Business

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 1653 Startups - Account Executives (NA)

Stripe is hiring an Account Executive for their Funded Startups team, focusing on closing net-new accounts for their financial infrastructure platform. The role involves managing the full sales cycle from lead to onboarding, building relationships with founders of venture-backed companies, and contributing to sales process refinement. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of sales or client-facing experience, preferably in high-growth SaaS, banking, consulting, or VC, with the ability to understand technical concepts and build relationships with founders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the full sales cycle from lead to close for startups
  2. Identify high-potential prospective users from inbound leads
  3. Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process, including engaging with Accelerators and VC firms
  4. Engage with Product, Marketing and User Operations teams to help amplify our growth trajectory

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of sales or client facing experience
  • Experience working with startups or small/medium businesses
  • Understanding of the buyer journey
  • Ability to lead short, single stakeholder deals as well as complex multi-party sales
  • Ability to build value in competitive situations
  • Ability to understand the Stripe API
  • Ability to build great relationships with highly technical founders
  • Ability to understand complex requirements and craft custom solutions
  • Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities
  • Comfort with basic modeling
  • Superior verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
  • Strong interest in technology

Nice to have

  • preferably at a high-growth Saas company, bank, consultancy or venture capital firm

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of top performance
  • Ability to understand the Stripe API and build great relationships with highly technical founders
  • Ability to understand complex requirements and craft custom solutions