# Account Executive, Platforms (Grower) - German Speaking

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Germany
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As an Account Executive (Grower) on the Stripe Platforms team, you will create partnerships between Stripe and the most innovative and fastest-growing software platforms in the world. You will help them understand how Stripe's online commerce infrastructure can make payments a competitive advantage for their businesses.

## Responsibilities

- Directly manage and nurture a named account list and develop account plans for winning and expanding business with upper middle market and enterprise SaaS Platform companies

- Build and maintain key relationships with C-level executives, while orchestrating the right executive touch points

- Own the full sales cycle from lead to close for upper middle market and enterprise companies

- Work with company leaders from multiple functions (e.g., Engineering, Product, and Finance) to lead complex product workshops and financial analysis

- Craft and lead complex, bespoke commercial & contractual negotiations

- Contribute to shaping our platform partnership strategy and building repeatable processes and scaled engagement models

- Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process

- Engage with Product and Engineering teams to help drive product strategy

## Requirements

- 7+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a technical product, with a track record of top performance

- Extensive experience directly selling a technology product or service, preferably at an API-first company, with a record of top performance

- A proven track record of moving sales processes forward from inception to close by leading complex, multi-party sales in a highly consultative manner

- Great listening skills and ability to quickly become a trusted resource for decision-makers across technology and finance orgs within software companies

- An ability to understand complex technical problems and understand how Stripe's solutions can address them

- A positive attitude and tireless work ethic when encountering blockers to success, whether external or internal

- Strong presentation skills

- 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

- Experience in or excitement in learning about financial technology infrastructure

- Fastidious approach to CRM hygiene and experience utilizing thorough sales forecasting metrics on a weekly/quarterly basis and communicating them in a succinct manner

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- sales
- relationship management
- technical knowledge
- financial analysis
- negotiation

### Nice to have
- German language
- financial technology infrastructure
- API-first company experience

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