About the Role
Stripe’s Professional Services Sales team works with strategic users to accelerate their growth and adoption on Stripe. This role leads strategic pre-sales conversations to transform payments and financial infrastructure for leading enterprises, driving revenue growth through professional service offerings.
Responsibilities
- Own the entire Professional Services sales cycle for enterprise companies.
- Partner with Account Executives on named account lists to develop account plans aimed at winning and expanding Professional Services business with enterprise clients.
- Drive the success of Professional Services by managing and forecasting bookings.
- Craft custom proposals that align with clients' business outcomes, utilizing services across Professional Services and partner offerings.
- Advise senior leadership in customer organizations on building business cases for digital transformation.
- Lead pre-sales workshops with customers, focusing on strategy, vision, discovery, and assessment.
- Shape Professional Services deals, and build and negotiate contracts/Statements of Work.
- Engage with Product and Engineering teams to influence product strategy for large clients.
- Collaborate effectively with GTM partners to integrate complementary strategies and drive mutual growth objectives.
- Prepare the delivery team with user insights to ensure that the delivery aligns with the desired business outcomes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional services sales experience, preferably at a technology company or a consulting firm, with a track record of top performance.
- Proven experience in pre-sales and sales of sizable service engagements, as well as in contract and Statement of Work (SOW) development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large transformational engagements using disruptive technologies.
- Thrives on the urgency and importance of working with our largest customers, achieving set objectives while balancing competing priorities.
- Ability to understand complex business requirements and develop tailored solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity to produce strategic insights and identify opportunities.
- Knowledge of the sales cycles associated with a SaaS product or technology platform for strategic enterprise customers.
- An in-depth understanding of the buyer journey and the ability to lead complex, multi-party sales in a highly consultative manner.
- Experience working with upper middle market and enterprise companies.
- A proven track record of driving cross-functional alignment among a broad set of stakeholders, including engineering, sales, support, product, marketing, data science, and senior leadership, to achieve growth targets.
- Experience in building and scaling a go-to-market (GTM) growth discipline, including the development of strategy, processes, and operating models.
- Proven ability to create a strong growth culture within a team.
- Background in a growth-stage internet/software company and/or the payments industry.
- Familiarity with APIs and their role in digital solutions.
Experience Level
- 5+ years of professional services sales experience
About the Company
- 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.
