Sales Manager, SMB Account Executives (Grower)
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Joblaze summary
In the role of Sales Manager for SMB Account Executives at Stripe, the individual will lead a team focused on driving growth and retention among small and medium-sized tech-forward businesses. Key skills include strong leadership, analytical abilities, and a background in technology sales, particularly in high-growth environments. This position is well-suited for someone with extensive experience in managing sales teams and a passion for the SMB sector. The role also involves direct engagement with customers, including C-level executives, to foster lasting relationships.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
- Stripe has 537 other open roles including Payments Performance Strategist, Card Authorization, Tax Technology Lead, Business Development Manager, Agentic Commerce.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Sales Manager, SMB Account Executives (Grower) role.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Stripe targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sales Manager, SMB Account Executives (Grower) role at Stripe.
From the original posting
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
As a Sales Manager, SMB Account Executives (Grower) at Stripe, you will play an instrumental role in fueling Stripe’s growth and retention of our SMB customers. In this role, you will build and lead a team of high-performing Account Executives, helping them to develop their skills and deliver on their ambitious targets, as well as roll your sleeves up to work directly with customers. We are looking for a proactive leader who has demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment, managing high-performing teams and solving complicated problems with limited oversight. Ideal candidates will have management and leadership experience scaling a technology sales team and possess first-class analytical, communication and relationship-building skills.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Recruit, develop and lead a team of Account Executives who focus on small and medium, high-growth, tech-forward businesses
- Work with senior leadership to develop the long-term vision and strategy for the team, and manage day-to-day operations with a focus on performance against key sales and growth metrics
- Be accountable for increasing revenue at high rates of growth
- Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills
- Inspire, motivate and enable development of team members to promote career growth and impact for Stripe
- Work collaboratively and cross-functionally across the organization to help shape Stripe’s products and solutions to meet customer needs
- Play a personal and direct role in building and maintaining enduring customer relationships, up to C-level
- Implement programs to improve pipeline generation efforts and drive overall efficiency for the team
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience, with 2+ years of people management experience preferred
- Experience leading sales in an early stage, high-growth technology environment
- Ability to hire, train and coach a high-performance sales team
- Ability to build relationships with strategic clients and industry thought leaders
- Demonstrated passion for SMB technology businesses
- Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry- or business-relevant terms
Preferred qualifications
- Prior experience at a growth stage internet/software company
- Prior experience forecasting and managing a high growth commercial business
- Prior experience running complex sales cycles, ideally with SMB size companies
- Prior experience leading a team in an office outside of the company headquarters
- Prior experience in the payments industry and/or fintech