# Account Executive, Platforms (Hunter)

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Paris
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Description

As an Account Executive (Hunter) on the Stripe Platforms team, you will manage and elevate relationships with a named account list while identifying new growth opportunities and ways Stripe can exceed expectations. This role will be dedicated to accounts located in the UK.

### Responsibilities

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

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

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

- Develop outbound strategies to create and nurture opportunities

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

- Develop relationships with executive stakeholders

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

- 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

- 8+ 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

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- sales
- relationship management
- technical knowledge
- financial technology
- CRM hygiene
- sales forecasting

### Nice to have
- fintech
- payments
- growth stage Internet/Software company

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