On-site
SaaS
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About this role
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 significant amount of work ahead.
About the team
As an Account Executive on Stripe’s Hunter Enterprise team, you’ll drive new business by building relationships with prospective enterprise customers across Australia. You’ll work with a named account list, identify where Stripe can solve complex business challenges, and turn those opportunities into long-term customer relationships.
What you’ll do
As an Enterprise Account Executive, you’ll focus on acquiring new enterprise customers across Australia. This is a hunting role: you’ll build pipeline through targeted outbound prospecting, develop relationships across complex organisations, and lead opportunities from initial engagement through commercial negotiation, signing, and launch.
You’ll create and execute account strategies that connect prospective customers’ business priorities with Stripe’s platform. Working with executive and technical stakeholders, you’ll develop business cases, shape multi-product solutions, and demonstrate Stripe’s value in competitive sales processes.
We’re looking for a commercially ambitious and highly autonomous seller who can balance near-term revenue delivery with the relationship building required to win strategic enterprise accounts. You should be comfortable creating opportunities rather than relying solely on inbound demand, and working through both technical and commerc
Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Enterprise
6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals
Prospecting
Hybrid
Mix of inbound leads and outbound prospecting
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.
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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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