About the Role
The Global Business Services (GBS) team is seeking a Deal Strategist to manage and close commercial deals. This role involves supporting cross-organizational alignment and requires expertise in commercial deal closure, pricing frameworks, and sales negotiation support.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with sales teams, sales leaders, services and support teams, and customers to advise on deal structures, establish compelling commercials, and drive closure of customer issues.
- Understand the business and technical requirements of our customers and partners, advising sales teams on the best approach (balancing risk between custom terms and internal system limitations).
- Remove internal blockers between cross-functional teams such as Product, Legal, Finance, Accounting, Service Teams, etc.
- Support the sales cycle to ensure the deal terms align with Stripe goals, strategic vision is met, and closes as forecasted.
- Support complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial and legal agreements.
- Support the pricing and structuring of multithreaded product use cases in all segments and industries, especially in highly competitive sales.
- Quickly build credibility and trust with internal customers.
- Be a clear and concise communicator, able to simplify complex concepts, influence stakeholders, and advocate for our Deal team as a strategic partner.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in Business, Technology, Finance, or Economics with 4+ years of experience in deal management, procurement, pricing strategy, or financial consulting.
- Experience working in ambiguous, quickly scaling environments, comfortable with high-agency.
- Experience working in Payments and SaaS, and redlining agreements.
- Experience in Salesforce and Ironclad.
Skills
- Subscription products
- Pricing strategies
- Communication skills
- Relationship building
- Mechanism building
- Strong communication
- Presentation skills
- Negotiation skills
- Project management skills
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience
Education Level
- BA/BS degree
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.
- This role offers an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
