Head of Enterprise Sales, Marketplaces

Stripe
Chicago +2 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience scaling enterprise sales teams in high-growth tech environments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in enterprise sales leadership within SaaS or payments domains
    — “management and leadership experience scaling a technology sales team”
  • Professionals who thrive in ambiguity and have a track record of hitting ambitious revenue targets
    — “demonstrated a track record of target attainment and success dealing with ambiguity”
  • Individuals with expertise in coaching sales teams and implementing structured selling methodologies
    — “Experience training, coaching, and scaling a high-performance sales team”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a hybrid in-office commitment in major US cities like Chicago, Seattle, or San Francisco.
    — “Hybrid in-office locations include: Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco.”
  • Candidates must be prepared to engage with highly technical clients and explain complex concepts clearly.
    — “Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and build great relationships with highly technical customers”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in consultative selling and client relationship-building in your resume and interviews.
    — “consultative and solution-based selling”
  • Emphasize your ability to mentor and develop high-performing sales teams as a leadership strength.
    — “Recruit, mentor, develop, and lead a team of sales professionals”
  • Showcase your understanding of unique customer needs and how you've translated that into tailored solutions.
    — “a knack for understanding unique customer needs”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • team performance
  • sales growth
  • client satisfaction
Typical background
salesmanagement

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales ManagementTeam LeadershipSales StrategyClient Relationship Management

Preferred

Sales EnablementSales Operations

Stack & domain

Sales ManagementAccount ExecutiveConsultative SellingTeam LeadershipCross-functional CollaborationLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingTeam BuildingStrategic ThinkingSalesTechnologyEnterprise Sales

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

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 Enterprise Marketplace Sales team engages with some of the largest and fastest-growing businesses in the world to take advantage of Stripe’s solutions. You'll lead and coach high-performing sales executives dispersed across the US, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with prospective Stripe customers. 

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

Recruit, mentor, develop, and lead a team of sales professionals while scaling our GTM presence across AMER.

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.

Develop both the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations.

Be accountable for operating net revenue and activation targets to grow Stripe’s revenue profitably.

Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs.

Inspire, motivate and enable individual development to promote career growth of direct reports.

Who you are

We are looking for a self-starting leader who is a builder and has demonstrated a track record of target attainment and success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment, and solving complicated problems with limited oversight. Ideal candidates will have management and leadership experience scaling a technology sales team, superior communication skills, and a knack for understanding unique customer needs. 

Minimum requirements

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. Second line management experience is a plus.

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.

Demonstrated passion for Stripe’s mission.

Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and build great relationships with highly technical customers.

Hybrid in-office locations include: Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco. Remote work within the US is also supported.

Source: Stripe careers

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