Sales Manager, Startups
Stripe
Sales & Business Development
Dublin, Ireland
EUR 204,800-307,200 / year + Equity
About the team
The EMEA Startup team is a highly consultative sales team that is responsible for the growth and retention of Stripe’s largest and fastest growing Startup customers.
What you’ll do
As a Sales Manager for Startups - Early Growers at Stripe, you will be crucial in driving Stripe's expansion by fostering growth among our existing high potential top startups.
Your role involves leading and coaching a team of high-performing Account Executives, empowering them to achieve ambitious targets. You will also directly engage with users. We seek an individual eager to collaborate with a top-tier team to navigate intricate organizations, identify new opportunities to leverage payments for competitive advantage, and innovate our joint go-to-market strategies.
You will manage a team of Startup AEs, focusing on supporting the growth of the top Startup users in EMEA. This team will partner with high-potential startups in our install base. Your goal is to provide hands-on business consultancy, optimize Stripe integrations, and uncover commercial upsell opportunities for Stripe.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on the Funded Startup segment across EMEA
- 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
- Prioritise top startup users and be accountable for increasing existing revenue at high rates of growth
- Driving deal strategy and execution including strong pipeline development, opportunity management, and forecasting
- 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
- Collaborating closely with key stakeholders across Sales, Product/Connect, Sales Ops, S&O, Marketing, GTM Partnerships, and others
- Participate in industry events to help support positive market awareness
Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of relevant sales experience - particularly managing existing business accounts
- Experience consistently forecasting and managing a high growth business for multiple quarters
- Thrives in settings with a high level of autonomy to create strategy, direction, and structure
- Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance sales team
- Ability to build executive relationships with customers and ecosystem partners
- Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry or business relevant terms
Preferred requirements
- Experience with and knowledge of the EMEA Startups ecosystem
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.