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Fintech, Payments, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Startups Sales Manager, Platform Partnerships

Chicago, ILOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Platform Sales Manager
Existing Business
Platform AEs
enterprise SaaS platforms
deal strategy
pipeline
funnel conversion
win rate
margin preservation
revenue growth

Nice to have

financial services
payments industry
card networks
autonomy
strategic projects
cross-functional teams

Role summary

Stripe is seeking a Sales Manager for its Platform Sales team to lead a team of Account Executives focused on enterprise SaaS platforms. This role involves driving sales growth through effective leadership, organizational planning, and execution. Responsibilities include overseeing the expansion of Stripe's payments technology within partner platforms, making hiring decisions, creating go-to-market strategies, and analyzing sales results. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of platform and/or payments sales experience and 2+ years of people management experience, with strong quantitative and analytical skills. Preferred qualifications include experience in financial services or the payments industry.

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Platform Sales team is a highly consultative, enterprise sales team that is responsible for some of Stripe’s largest and fastest growing partners. Stripe helps software platforms offer more value to their customers by embedding Stripe’s powerful payments technology into their solution. As a Platform Sales Manager, you will play a critical role on our go-to-market leadership bench-- leading a team of AEs to make payments-as-a-service a competitive advantage for high-growth organizations.

What you’ll do

Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service and outstanding execution

Oversee the expansion of Stripe’s footprint with global saas platforms

Make hiring decisions, honing our ideal candidate profile and onboarding strategy

Create structure and focus for GTM ideas and product sales campaigns that the product team is exploring. Drive execution and measurement. Analyze results and make recommendations for action in a timely manner.

Define key sales support mechanisms, processes, and programs to meet the rapid growth of the business and achieve revenue attainment and market development objectives

Build a world-class organization and write the playbook for the era of monetizing payments on platform

Responsibilities

Lead a team of sophisticated Existing Business, Platform AEs focused on expanding our global footprint with enterprise SaaS platforms

Drive deal strategy and partner across the business to ensure healthy pipeline, funnel conversion, win rate, and margin preservation across the portfolio

Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe's product roadmap and drive best practices on selling and forecasting

Engage with the largest strategic opportunities, leading executive relationships

Being accountable for delivering revenue growth

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

7+ years of relevant platform and/or payments sales experience

2+ years of people management experience

Ability to hire, coach, and motivate a high-performance sales team

Ability to articulate complex, technical concepts and translate them into business-relevant terms

Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills

Preferred qualifications

Thrives in fast-paced settings with a high-level of autonomy and can create clarity and structure

A knack for working well with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally

Experience scoping and managing strategic projects with input from cross-functional teams

Prior experience in financial services, the payments industry, or with the card networks

Sample Stripe interview questions

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Discuss failure modes and backward compatibility for a system design.
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How do you see customer expectations shifting in the coming years?
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Discuss your solution, coding approach, problem-solving process, and technical decision-making for the coding challenge.
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What are important metrics to analyze to measure pipeline and deal signed health
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