This list contains only the countries for which job offers have been published in the selected language (e.g., in the French version, only job offers written in French are displayed, and in the English version, only those in English).
As an Enterprise Sales Leader at Stripe, you will play an instrumental role in fuelling Stripe’s growth through both new customer acquisition and customer retention. In this role you will lead a team of high-performing Account Executives on the team, helping them to develop their skills and deliver on their ambitious targets, as well as roll your sleeves up to work directly with customers specifically in technology industries. We are looking for a proactive leader who has demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment, managing high-performing teams, turning metrics and quantitative analyses into actionable plans, and solving problems with limited oversight. Ideal candidates should also have experience scaling and managing a technology sales team, and possess first-class strategic, analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills.
Job Responsibility:
Be a role model for the team, demonstrating how to perform in a high growth startup environment
Lead a results-oriented culture while demonstrating humility, resiliency and receptiveness to constructive criticism to find the globally optimal outcome
Develop the short to mid-term vision and strategy to lead the team with clarity and context and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales and market share metrics
Be accountable for increasing revenue and new client acquisition at high rates of growth, and retaining and upselling to existing portfolios
Drive WBR, MBR and QBR for your team, ensuring integrated charter and metrics across broader organization
Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Stripe
Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on the large user customer segments
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
Work collaboratively and cross-functionally across the organisation to help shape Stripe’s products and solutions to meet customer needs. In particular, this will involve working across the Japan sales team, as well as global inter-working with US, European and APAC sales
Participate in industry events to help support market awareness
Work with company leaders from multiple functions (e.g., Engineering, Product, and Finance) to lead complex product workshops and financial analyses
Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process
Requirements:
13+ years of sales experience
3+ years of people management experience
Ability to stimulate a high performing culture with strong humility and respect
Ability to deliver outstanding results with high precision of forecast accuracy, understanding and driving multi-quarter outlook
Ability to consistently identify problems using data, and to work with cross functional teams to solve them for the team
Ability to work with senior cross functional leads to ensure strategic alignment
Ability to own executive relationships with top customers, prospects and industry thought leaders, resulting in better sales outcomes
High professional fluency in Japanese and English to collaborate with leaders across the regions
Ability to hire, train and coach a high-performance sales team
Demonstrated passion for startups and new technology businesses
Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry- or business-relevant terms
Ability to understand complex technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products
Ability to develop and execute account plans spanning multiple business units across complex organizations
Nice to have:
Prior experience at a growth stage internet/ software company