About the Role
Square is building a world-class, high-accountability field sales organization and is looking for a leader who is both a coach and a builder. You will be the driving force behind a disciplined, insight-led sales motion that blends in-person selling with proactive outbound strategy. Your leadership will elevate both the quality and velocity of revenue while shaping a culture rooted in excellence, ownership, and growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead with expertise in the field
- Develop Territory Account Executives through active, in-market coaching
- Model world-class selling by joining prospect and customer meetings
- Spend significant time in the field with your team, strengthening local relationships, fueling community-driven pipeline creation, and ensuring sellers experience Square through a human, product-driven presence
- Manage pipeline and KPIs with rigor
- Run disciplined weekly pipeline, forecast, and deal reviews
- Use data-backed insights to coach AE effectiveness, elevate sales execution, and ensure consistent momentum across high-velocity, complex sales cycles
- Create an environment defined by trust, clear expectations, ownership, and open communication
- Hold the team to a high bar of execution while providing the clarity, structure, and hands-on coaching needed to meet it
- Hire, onboard, and develop AEs to ramp quickly, deepen product expertise, and consistently exceed quota
- Become a product and competitive expert
- Ensure your team can confidently articulate Square’s value and differentiation
Requirements
- 8+ years of sales success, ideally in a high-growth environment
- 5+ years of leadership experience, preferably managing field account executives
- Experience in high-transaction SaaS or financial services sales
- Strong bias toward action and experimentation, balanced with thoughtful decision-making
- A track record of building a winning, high-performing culture through hands-on leadership and coaching
- Extensive experience operating in a metrics-driven sales organization
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional partners in a rapidly scaling business
- Experience scaling and overseeing large Field Sales teams
- Strong ability to communicate and build relationships with senior executives
Skills
- Deep knowledge of the craft of selling: how to open doors, generate pipeline, position value competitively, and close with precision
- Hands-on leadership
- Deep product expertise
- Strong competitive instincts
- Active engagement leadership style
- Disciplined sales motion
- In-person selling
- Proactive outbound strategy
- Consultative discovery
- Competitive positioning
- Closing with clarity
- Product fluency
- Value articulation
- Decisive deal strategy
- Pipeline management
- KPI management
- Diagnosing gaps
- Identifying risks
- Expanding coverage
- Opportunity creation and progression
- Forecasting
- Deal reviews
- Data-backed insights
- Sales execution
- High-velocity sales cycles
- Complex sales cycles
- Building a high-performance, high-accountability culture
- Trust building
- Setting clear expectations
- Ownership
- Open communication
- Hiring
- Onboarding
- AE development
- Exceeding quota
- Scaling expertise
- Scaling process
- Scaling go-to-market effectiveness
- Articulating value and differentiation
- Interpersonal skills
- Leadership skills
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
Experience Level
- 8+ years of sales success
- 5+ years of leadership experience
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
About the Company
- Since opening doors in 2009, Square has evolved with the world of commerce, enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale. They expanded into software to build integrated, omnichannel solutions for sellers, covering online sales, inventory management, buy now, pay later, appointment booking, customer engagement, and staff management. Financial services tools are embedded at the point of sale, providing merchants access to business loans and cash flow management. Afterpay furthers the goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale. Square is a partner to sellers of all sizes, from large enterprises to small businesses. As sellers grow, so do their solutions, presenting a massive opportunity to build a significant, meaningful, and lasting business that helps sellers worldwide do the same.
- Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each brand unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, they are helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class.
- We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
- We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.
- We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.
