Head of Sales - Large Enterprise, Growth

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 1170 GEO Sales HQ (NA)

Stripe is hiring a Head of Sales for their Large Enterprise team in the US. This role involves leading and coaching a team of account executives, developing long-term strategy, managing day-to-day operations, and achieving revenue targets. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technology sales management, particularly with large enterprise clients in the SaaS, banking, or payments sectors, and a proven track record of scaling sales teams and driving growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Recruit, mentor, develop, and lead a team of sales professionals while scaling our GTM presence across AMER.
  2. Train the team in up-leveling professional skills such as collaborative pipeline generation, consultative and solution-based selling, closing tactics, adoption of MEDDIIC, and serving as a Trust Advisor to Stripe Users.
  3. Develop both the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations.
  4. Be accountable for operating net revenue and activation targets to grow Stripe’s revenue profitably.
  5. Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience as a proven account executive and/or 5+ years of front line sales management experience within technology, SaaS, banking or payments spaces.
  • Experience working with large enterprise clients and users.
  • Experience training, coaching, and scaling a high-performance sales team.
  • Ability to build relationships with strategic clients, industry thought leaders and alliances & channel partners.
  • Experience operating in an early stage, high-growth technology environment.
  • Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and build great relationships with highly technical customers.

Nice to have

  • Second line management experience is a plus.
  • Experience in the payments or financial services space is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • scaling our GTM presence
  • scaling a technology sales team
  • scaling a high-performance sales team
  • operating in a high-growth environment
  • solving complicated problems with limited oversight
  • early stage, high-growth technology environment