Account Executive - Enterprise Germany

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Acquire, grow, and retain strategic new business for Stripe, focusing on large and very large enterprises in your territory.
• - Build, prioritize, and manage a robust, multi-threaded enterprise sales pipeline, including multi-quarter forecasting and account planning.
• - Own the full sales cycle end to end—from executive engagement and lead generation through scoping, solution design, commercial negotiation, closing, onboarding, activation, and early expansion.
• - Proactively generate your own pipeline through targeted outreach (e.g. cold calling, blitzing, research, networking, events, partners) and by driving a clear territory and account strategy.
• - Effectively manage and advance leads qualified by inbound and outbound sales development representatives, ensuring smooth hand-offs and high conversion into late-stage opportunities.
• - Ensure every potential and existing Stripe user has an excellent, high-touch experience at every interaction, regardless of deal size, seniority, or stage of the relationship.
• - Identify and deeply understand users’ business models, technical environments, and pain points in order to shape and propose impactful Stripe solutions and multi-year roadmaps.
• - Orchestrate and coordinate cross-functional Stripe teams (e.g. Solutions Engineering, Product, Legal, Risk, Operations, Marketing, Partnerships, Leadership) to align on strategy and ensure internal resources are set up for user success and long-term growth.

Required Skills

• - 10+ years of full-time experience in solution sales, with a strong track record of closing, onboarding, and expanding complex enterprise deals (including multi-year, multi-stakeholder engagements).
• - Proven orchestration skills from highly consultative roles, with the ability to lead complex pursuits across cross-functional teams (product, engineering, legal, risk, operations, marketing, leadership) and across all hierarchies both internally and within large customer organizations.
• - Extensive experience selling to large and very large enterprises in Germany (e.g. DAX, large Mittelstand, and/or global enterprises with HQ or major presence in Germany), including C-level relationship ownership.
• - Ability to deeply understand the Stripe platform and API, and build trusted relationships with highly technical customers (e.g. CTO, CPO, VP Engineering), translating technical capabilities into clear business outcomes.
• - Demonstrated success operating in highly ambiguous, fast-paced, product-led environments, with the ability to create structure, prioritize effectively, and drive results without established playbooks.
• - High professional fluency in German and English, including the ability to communicate at executive and board level in both languages.
• - Openness and availability to travel regularly and represent Stripe at in-person customer meetings, industry events, and conferences.

Benefits

• - Equity
• - Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• - Retirement plans
• - Health benefits
• - Wellness stipends