Sales Manager, SMB (German Speaker)

Stripe; Dublin; On-site; EUR 205,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health benefits

Retirement plans

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an experienced Sales Manager to lead a high-performing SMB and Mid-Market sales team across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from our Dublin office. You’ll coach Account Executives, drive revenue, and engage with top accounts to accelerate growth.

You’ll recruit, develop and guide the team, defining long-term vision and pipeline strategies while partnering with product, risk and operations to ensure customer success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant sales experience, including 4+ years of people management.
• Fluency in English and German.
• Track record of overachieving against ambitious sales targets.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a focus on SMB.
• Help leadership define and implement long-term vision and strategy for the team.
• Support your team to develop and implement full sales cycle strategies from pipe-gen to deal closing.
• Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills.
• Solve complex client needs working with product, sales, risk, and operations.
• Coordinate with Stripe teams to ensure users’ success.
• Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members.

Skills

English fluency

German fluency

Job description

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.

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 SMB team works with European businesses in one of Stripe’s high-growth and highest priority segments. At Stripe, SMB are companies with employee count under 100 employees.

This is an existing business sales team where each AE manages approx 100 accounts. We protect revenue with excellent account management and partner focused relationships, lead on contract renewals with a strong commercial focus and excel in product upsell sales motions.

What you’ll do

In this role you and your team will own partnerships between Stripe and the most strategic and fastest-growing SMB and Mid-Market companies in EMEA. As a Sales Manager at Stripe, you’ll play an instrumental role in fueling Stripe’s growth in this high priority segment through coaching your team but also executive engagement across top accounts.

You’ll lead and coach high-performing account executives, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with users and prospects. We are looking for an individual who is keen to work alongside a high-performing team of individuals to navigate complex sales cycles.

You’ll own team performance, focusing both on delivering key sales metrics while also thinking like a CEO to drive internal and external projects to make the team, and the segment, excel. You can balance sales excellence with a builder mentality to hit and exceed targets while setting the team up for long term success.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on SMB
• Help leadership to define and implement the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales metrics
• Support your team to develop and implement full sales cycle strategies from pipe-gen to deal closing to implementation
• Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle
• Solve complex client needs and work across product, sales, risk, and operations together with your team to improve our product
• Make sure that internal teams are set up for users’ success by coordinating with other Stripe teams such as Solution architects, SDRs, Marketing, Product and many more
• Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Stripe

Who you are

The ideal candidate for this role is someone who thrives in highly ambiguous environments. Our users are some of the most ambitious and demanding customers and a successful candidate will match their curiosity, speed and passion to build things by overcoming challenges. You are solution-oriented, adaptable, have a keen interest in coaching and developing a team of high potential sellers.

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.

The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant sales experience, including 4+ years of people management experience
• Fluency in English and German
• Track record of overachieving against ambitious sales targets
• Ability to understand complex technical ecosystems and build great relationships with technical customers
• Experience consistently forecasting and managing a high growth business for multiple quarters
• Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance sales team
• Ability to build executive relationships with customers and ecosystem partners
• A knack for working well with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Ability and motivation to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Superior verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Requirements

• * Prior experience in payments
• Prior experience in a sales and/or customer-facing role at a high growth technology company
• Interest in business models and monetization

In-office expectations

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 Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland 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.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €204,800 - €307,200. 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.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions.