Head of Enterprise Sales, North America

Block Block · Fintech · CA · Remote · 20229 S&M - Sales - Commerce Enterprise and Mid

Head of Enterprise Sales for Cash App and Afterpay in North America, responsible for driving revenue by forging relationships with large global brands and unlocking new revenue opportunities. This role involves leading a sales team, developing cross-functional partnerships, crafting deal strategies, and representing the business to top-tier merchants.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the North American Enterprise Sales Team: Lead a team of seasoned Enterprise Account Executives. Coach the team to navigate complex and often first-of-kind new business opportunities. Support deal negotiations through internal and external advocacy, particularly by clearing blockers to revenue. Craft a segment-wide strategy and hold the team accountable to delivering on OKRs and executing against revenue targets, in concert with the broader Sales & Account Management function at Cash App.
  2. Develop Meaningful Cross-Functional Partnerships: Work closely with cross-functional teams to better support your team in generating revenue, including Marketing, Finance, Product, Risk, Legal, Account Management and more. You can influence without authority across teams and build the internal relationships required to navigate a globally distributed and matrixed set of stakeholders.
  3. Build an A-Team: You will inherit a team of strong performers with relevant experience. Further develop their skills, efficacy and an overall team culture focused on performance and betterment.
  4. Be the Voice of Cash App and Afterpay: Represent the business to top-tier Enterprise Merchants as a thought-leader in the payments landscape and demonstrate Cash App and Afterpay’s value as a growth driver for our commerce partners.Develop and grow Block’s relationships with merchant partners, including their senior executives.
  5. Craft Deal Strategy: Develop and pitch powerful sales narratives that educate prospective merchants of Cash App and Afterpay’s value proposition. Effectively communicate with senior decision makers at the largest brands in the world. Leverage insights, data and market intel to continuously improve our go-to-market strategy.

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise Sales leadership
  • Revenue generation and target achievement
  • Complex deal negotiation and execution
  • Cross-functional collaboration and influence
  • Team leadership and talent development
  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving
  • Experience in technology or financial services
  • Experience with large-scale Enterprise clients

Nice to have

  • Payments industry knowledge
  • Familiarity with Cash App and Afterpay products

What the JD emphasized

  • complex and often first-of-kind new business opportunities
  • complex commercial negotiations
  • leading and managing high performing teams