On-site
SaaS
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About this role
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 open up new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a lot of work ahead. That gives you an unusual opportunity to help put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The Startup SaaS Platforms team works with European startups in one of Stripe’s must-win segments. SaaS platforms are companies that use Stripe to embed payments and make financial services a core part of their products, such as Shopify, Mindbody, and Lightspeed. For these companies, their partnership with Stripe is vital to the success of their businesses.
SaaS platforms are a global priority for Stripe, and our team finds and wins Stripe’s future strategic accounts in Europe. We partner with high-potential companies early and help them use Stripe’s solutions to better support their users, scale globally, and create new revenue streams by monetising payments and financial services.
What you’ll do
We’re hiring an Account Executive to win new business with pre-revenue and early-stage SaaS platform startups across the United Kingdom and Ireland. This is a new-logo role. Your job is to find the most promising founders building platforms today, win their business for Stripe before they choose another provider, and get them live with the right integration from day one.
You’ll work alongside our SaaS Platform Account Executives as the team’s dedicated hunter for the earliest stage of the market. You’ll own the pre-revenue and early-revenue segment en
Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Enterprise
6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals
Prospecting
Channel / Partner
Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Territory
Named Accounts
Pre-assigned list of target companies
Requirements at a Glance
Typical Day — Account Executive
Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.
SaaS — Interview Intel
Typical Sales Cycle
30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)
Common Buyer Objections
- "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
- "We built something in-house already"
- "We don't have budget until next quarter"
- "Our team won't adopt another tool"
Key Industry Metrics
Hot Topics to Reference
- • AI-native product disruption
- • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
- • Vertical SaaS consolidation
- • Usage-based pricing models
Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.
Tags
Walk me through your discovery process.
Template questionHow do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?
Template questionTell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.
Template questionHow do you build business cases for stakeholders?
Template questionDescribe a deal you lost and what you learned.
Template questionThis Account Executive position at Stripe involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.
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