Account Executive, AI Sales

🏢 Stripe · 📍 San Francisco, CA
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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

The AI team is focused on one of Stripe’s most strategic growth areas: enabling the monetization and scaling of AI-native and AI-enabled businesses. We’re in a unique position – partnering with the world’s most ambitious AI companies (the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, etc) building on the frontier of artificial intelligence -- across infrastructure, foundation models, agents, and applications -- to help them grow and commercialize globally using Stripe’s full financial stack.

As part of Stripe’s GTM / Sales organization, this team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape Stripe’s AI GTM strategy and ensure that the world’s leading AI companies -- from early-stage innovators to the largest public players -- choose Stripe as their monetization platform.

What you’ll do

  • Work with existing Stripe customers in the AI Industry to develop and execute long-term sales strategies to expand Stripe’s revenue
  • Own the full sales cycle, from business case development, to deal structuring and negotiating, to close
  • Develop account plans and cross sell into your list of strategic AI customers, driving growth through expansion and new revenue streams 
  • Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewals
  • Develop relationships with executive stakeholders within your book of business, deeply understanding problems they are solving and helping drive to solutions
  • Be responsible for account mapping and coordinating effective meetings with the appropriate external stakeholders expanding the customer relationship
  • Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process and help shape the Stripe sales culture

Minimum requirements

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating extreme attention to detail, user-centric API design, and recursive 'first-principles' thinking to solve complex financial infrastructure problems.

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  • 1. Hand-waving edge cases, security flaws, or error states in system design or code.
  • 2. Using buzzwords without being able to explain the underlying mechanics from first principles.
  • 3. Showing frustration or defensiveness when pushed on technical trade-offs by interviewers.
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I obsess over removing the hidden complexities of global commerce so developers can build financial infrastructure effortlessly.

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