Sales Manager, Existing Business (France)

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 Account Executive team at Stripe works to help some of the largest and fastest-growing businesses in the world take advantage of Stripe.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead and coach high-performing sales executives, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with prospective Stripe customers.

Responsibilities

Recruit, train and lead a team of sales professionals
Build new processes and sales plays for a growing Digital Native & Enterprise business
Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales metrics.
Be accountable for increasing revenue and new client acquisition at high rates of growth.
Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle.
Play a personal and direct role in building and maintaining enduring customer relationships, up to C-level.
Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Stripe.
Work collaboratively and cross-functionally across the organisation to help shape Stripe’s products and solutions to meet customer needs.

Who you are

We are looking for a self-starting leader who has demonstrated 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 sales experience and 5+ years of people management experience.
Fluency in English and French
Demonstrated experience leading sales in a high-growth technology environment.
Ability to hire, train and coach a high-performance sales team.
Ability to build strategic executive relationships with customers and industry thought leaders.
Demonstrated passion for helping to scale new technology businesses.
Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry- or business-relevant terms.

Preferred qualifications

Prior experience leading a team in an international office
Prior experience in the payments industry.

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €254,200 - €381,200. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Paris

Team

Sales

Job type

Full time

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