Strategic Accounts Sales Leader, AI GTM
Required skills
- AI
- Sales Leadership
- Account Executives
- revenue expansion
- product attach
- retention
- new business opportunities
- KPIs
- consultative sales
- solution-based sales
Nice to have
- payments
- financial infrastructure
- developer tools
- AI/ML platforms
- AI ecosystem
- AI labs
Role summary
Stripe is seeking a Senior Sales Manager for its AI Go-to-Market (GTM) team. This role involves leading a team of Account Executives to drive growth with strategic AI customers, focusing on payments, billing, and monetization challenges unique to the AI industry. The ideal candidate will have strong sales leadership, people development, and product expertise, with a deep understanding of AI industry dynamics and business models. Responsibilities include developing long-term vision, scaling operations, coaching the sales team, driving revenue, and influencing product roadmaps. This is a hybrid role requiring 8+ years of sales leadership experience in hyper-growth SaaS or technology environments.
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
Stripe is building the economic engine for AI – and it’s working. Today, 88% of the Forbes AI 50 are building on Stripe (and most of the remaining 12% are pre-monetization).
The AI GTM team is focused on helping AI-native businesses monetize and scale. We're in a unique position—partnering with the world's most ambitious AI companies (like OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and NVIDIA) to help them grow. This is one of the fastest growing parts of the business, and we need more great people to help us continue to accelerate.
What you'll do
As a Sales Manager on the AI GTM team at Stripe, you will leverage your sales leadership and product expertise to drive growth through new and existing strategic AI customers. Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer of AI, you will lead a team of Account Executives responsible for expanding Stripe's relationship with some of the most important AI companies in the world—across payments, billing, and beyond.
You will be instrumental in leading in-depth product discussions with customers, developing consultative and solution-based sales strategies, and building deep knowledge of the AI industry and its unique monetization challenges. You will collaborate closely with Product, Marketing, Product Marketing, and User Operations teams to develop and execute against our go-to-market strategy.
Responsibilities
Who you are
Sales leader. You are an adept sales leader, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization. You see value in competitive situations and enjoy working on products that require both deep product understanding and technical knowledge, especially for AI industry users.
People developer. You are a strong people leader who builds high-performing teams through coaching, accountability, and culture. You're as comfortable working with clients as with internal stakeholders (including executives) and are excited to become an expert and share your knowledge. You possess an organized, self-starter mindset and excellent communication skills, with a track record for improving the processes and organizations around you.
AI enthusiast. You have deep context in the AI industry and are energized by keeping up with new developments in the space. You bring a user-first mindset— you approach every customer interaction as a consultative partner rather than a transactional seller.
Technically curious. You understand APIs, webhooks, and modern developer tools—and you can hold credible conversations with engineering leaders about how Stripe's infrastructure fits into their stack.
Minimum requirements
Preferred qualifications
Sample Stripe interview questions
- 1
Discuss failure modes and backward compatibility for a system design.
system designeasy - 2
How do you see customer expectations shifting in the coming years?
technicalmedium - 3
Discuss your solution, coding approach, problem-solving process, and technical decision-making for the coding challenge.
technicaleasy - 4
What are important metrics to analyze to measure pipeline and deal signed health
metrics analyticsdifficult
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