Account Executive - Smb

Plaid · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · Sales

This is an Account Executive role focused on selling Plaid's financial technology solutions to SMBs. The role involves identifying and closing new deals, building relationships with prospects, and understanding Plaid's solutions to evangelize their use across various industries. While Plaid is an AI company, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or shipping AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify use cases and prospect high growth companies that are ~100 employees and beyond
  2. Develop a book of high potential engaged prospects and maintain a sufficient pipeline to support successful attainment against quota
  3. Successfully lead a technical sales motion of guiding engineers, product, and growth team members for the entire life-cycle from prospecting to close
  4. Coordinate cross-functional resources and drive initiatives across
  5. Own mastery of Plaid solutions and evangelize for industry success across fintech and other industries

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of quota-carrying, technical selling experience in a new-net hunting role
  • Proficiency in technical products and APIs

Nice to have

  • A strong track record of over performance
  • A hunter mentality
  • Ability to collaborate internally and exhibit a “win as a team” mentality
  • Experience in building territory plans and executing to plan
  • Passion working with growth stage private companies
  • Passion for Plaid’s mission of unlocking financial freedom for everyone