Account Executive, AI Startups - Grower
Position Summary & Responsibilities
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
The AI Startups 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 are in a unique position to partner with the most ambitious AI companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence. Our team collaborates across infrastructure, foundational models, agents, and applications to support these companies in their growth and global commercialization using Stripe’s comprehensive financial stack.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Own contract renewals and lead commercial negotiations to increase revenue and market share among existing customers.
- Develop and implement sales cycle strategies to drive product adoption, new sales, and client retention at scale.
- Address complex client needs by collaborating with product, sales, risk, and operations teams to enhance our offerings.
- Build and refine the go-to-market playbook for AI monetization and usage-based billing (UBB), including segmentation, messaging, sales strategy, and pipeline generation.
- Engage with AI founders and industry influencers to position Stripe as the preferred infrastructure for monetizing AI.
- Represent Stripe in market-facing activities (e.g., hackathons, webinars, events) to elevate our presence in the AI and billing ecosystem.
Who you are
We’re looking for a well-rounded strategic seller who can build strong relationships with Stripe’s clients and manage high velocity deal cycles. If you’re hungry, smart, persistent, and a great teammate, we want to hear from you!
Minimum requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a client-facing/sales role
- Ability to understand complex technical ecosystems and build great relationships with technical customers
- Ability to drive and close upsell opportunities for additional Stri
Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights
Evaluating extreme attention to detail, user-centric API design, and recursive 'first-principles' thinking to solve complex financial infrastructure problems.
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