Senior Account Executive

🏢 Paddle · 📍 San Francisco · 💼 remote · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

What do we do?

Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

The Role:  

We are looking for a resourceful, ambitious, and autonomous sales specialist, preferably with a strong understanding of SaaS or Payments, eager to contribute to ambitious growth plans in the Americas. This is an exciting time for you to join: based on the size and breadth of our customers, we are growing like never before!

As a key member of our Sales team, your primary focus will be to convert qualified leads into delighted Paddle customers. You'll engage directly with a diverse range of companies, from SaaS to AI to app companies to established businesses within these landscapes, as they explore their e-commerce provider needs. Your role is critical in helping us define, drive, and achieve our revenue targets, ultimately bringing us closer to our vision of making Paddle the go-to solution for SaaS, AI, and app businesses worldwide.

This is a remote role based in San Francisco, CA.

What you'll do: 

  • Build pipeline from leads armed by your Business Development Representative and Marketing counterparts, as well as your own self-sourced opportunities’

  • You will be responsible for creating a portion of your own self generated pipeline opportunities

  • Be responsible for the full sales cycle from prospecting, qualifying, carrying out demo’s through to closing deals

  • Master Paddle’s product, know the features inside and out, understand the industry and be able to articulate Paddle’s value to CTO’s, He

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Paddle Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluates commercial acumen, cross-functional execution speed, and deep understanding of merchant-of-record (MoR) SaaS billing complexity.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating global compliance and tax as an afterthought rather than a core product value driver
  • 2. Being overly theoretical without citing specific growth metrics or operational frameworks
  • 3. Lacking empathy for software developers and finance operators who use the billing engine
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I've scaled complex B2B SaaS revenue operations globally, and I know how to turn checkout friction into a competitive advantage for merchants.

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