Sales Manager, Enterprise Growth

EngineersOfAI; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a high-impact Enterprise Sales leader to recruit, coach, and scale a team across the Americas. You will set strategy, drive pipeline, and own revenue targets while collaborating with product, marketing, and customer success to tailor Stripe solutions for strategic clients.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in account executive roles or 5+ years in frontline sales management within tech, SaaS, banking, or payments, with a track record of ambiguity and rapid growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as an account executive or 5+ years in frontline tech sales management.
• Experience training, coaching, and scaling a high-performance sales team.
• Ability to build relationships with strategic clients and alliances.
• Experience in early-stage, high-growth technology environments.
• Passion for Stripe’s mission and ability to explain technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, mentor, develop, and lead a team of sales professionals while scaling our GTM presence across AMER.
• Train the team in pipeline generation, consultative and solution-based selling, closing tactics.
• Develop long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations.
• Be accountable for operating net revenue and activation targets to grow Stripe’s revenue.
• Work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs.
• Inspire, motivate and enable individual development to promote career growth of direct reports.

Skills

Sales leadership

Team scaling

Strategic relationship building

Technical sales

Mentoring / coaching

Job description

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 Sales team engages with some of the largest and fastest-growing businesses in the world to take advantage of Stripe’s solutions. You'll lead and coach high-performing sales executives dispersed across the US, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with prospective Stripe customers.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Recruit, mentor, develop, and lead a team of sales professionals while scaling our GTM presence across AMER.
• Train the team in up-leveling professional skills such as collaborative pipeline generation, consultative and solution-based selling, closing tactics, adoption of MEDDIIC, and serving as a trusted advisor to Stripe Users.
• Develop both the long‑term vision and strategy for the team and manage day‑to‑day operations.
• Be accountable for operating net revenue and activation targets to grow Stripe’s revenue.
• Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe’s solutions to meet client needs.
• Inspire, motivate and enable individual development to promote career growth of direct reports.

Who you are

We are looking for a self‑starting leader who is a builder and has demonstrated a track record of target attainment and 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 and deeply technical sales. 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

• 10+ years of experience as a proven account executive and/or 5+ years of front line sales management experience within technology, SaaS, banking or payments spaces. Second line management experience is a plus.
• Experience training, coaching, and scaling a high-performance sales team.
• Ability to build relationships with strategic clients, industry thought leaders and alliances & channel partners.
• Experience operating in an early stage, high-growth, technology forward environment.
• Demonstrated passion for Stripe’s mission.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and build great relationships with highly technical customers.