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Stripe

Account Executive, AI Sales

Stripe is hiring an Account Executive, AI Sales in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Stripe.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this sales role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include OpenAI, Anthropic and enterprise sales.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 765 other open roles at Stripe.

AI in this role

Manage enterprise sales and growth strategies for AI-native and AI-enabled customer accounts on Stripe's platform.ؤ

OpenAIAnthropic
enterprise-salesaccount-managementnegotiationsaas-sales

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 AI team is focused on one of Stripe’s most strategic growth areas: enabling the monetization and scaling of AI-native and AI-enabled businesses. We’re in a unique position – partnering with the world’s most ambitious AI companies (the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, etc) building on the frontier of artificial intelligence -- across infrastructure, foundation models, agents, and applications -- to help them grow and commercialize globally using Stripe’s full financial stack.

As part of Stripe’s GTM / Sales organization, this team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape Stripe’s AI GTM strategy and ensure that the world’s leading AI companies -- from early-stage innovators to the largest public players -- choose Stripe as their monetization platform.

What you’ll do

  • Work with existing Stripe customers in the AI Industry to develop and execute long-term sales strategies to expand Stripe’s revenue
  • Own the full sales cycle, from business case development, to deal structuring and negotiating, to close
  • Develop account plans and cross sell into your list of strategic AI customers, driving growth through expansion and new revenue streams
  • Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewals
  • Develop relationships with executive stakeholders within your book of business, deeply understanding problems they are solving and helping drive to solutions
  • Be responsible for account mapping and coordinating effective meetings with the appropriate external stakeholders expanding the customer relationship
  • Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process and help shape the Stripe sales culture

Minimum requirements

  • * 8+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a technical product, with a track record of top performance
    • 4+ years leading complex sales cycles with Enterprise organizations required
    • Ability to understand technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products
    • Ability to develop and execute account plans spanning multiple business units across complex organizations
    • A knack for working well with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
    • Strong presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
    • Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements
    • Superior verbal and written communication skills
    • Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
    • Strong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the space

How we rate this

Account Executive, AI Sales at Stripe rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Enterprise SalesAccount ManagementNegotiationSaas SalesOpenAIAnthropic

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where enterprise sales was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where account management was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where negotiation was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where saas sales was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used OpenAI in your day-to-day work.

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