Account Executive, Funded Startups DACH

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 Funded Startups team is dedicated to winning all top venture capital backed startups in EMEA. We achieve this by combining subject matter expertise with robust collaboration within the startup ecosystem. Our focus is on identifying and partnering with high-potential startups, assisting them in monetizing their products, scaling globally, and creating new revenue streams.

By bringing the next generation of high-potential users to Stripe, we aim to support Stripe’s mission to to increase the GDP of the internet while fostering sustainable growth.

What you’ll do

In this role you will create partnerships between Stripe and the most innovative and fastest-growing founders of funded startups in your region by helping them to understand how Stripe’s financial infrastructure and solutions can support their growth ambitions and create a competitive advantage for their businesses.

As an Account Executive on the Funded Startups team, you’ll identify new opportunities for our clients to get the most out of Stripe’s growing products suite by thoroughly understanding our clients’ needs and advising them on how to leverage market-leading financial solutions to their own advantage. You will create and drive campaigns to build new sales pipeline and work with our users on increasing their Stripe adoption.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-potential prospective startups from inbound leads and outbound prospecting
• Own the full sales cycle from lead to close for startups
• Develop and implement full sales cycle strategies for driving product adoption, net new product sales, and client retention
• Represent Stripe in the local startup ecosystem and and help us grow our footprint further
• Work together with the investment partnership team on VC portfolio analyses and founder-focused gatherings
• Work with the other in-country got-to-market teams as well as our Dublin HQ on shared initiatives and represent the Funded Startups team at regional events
• Solve complex client needs and work across product, sales, risk, and operations teams to improve our product
• Generate your own leads through cold calling, blitzing, research, networking, and driving your territory
• Make every potential Stripe user