On-site
SaaS
greenhouse
About this role
Who we are
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 revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.
Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We have significant work ahead, which creates an opportunity to do meaningful, high-impact work with colleagues and users around the world.
About the team
Stripe’s New Zealand business is growing, and we are building our enterprise new-business capability in the market. The Enterprise team focuses on winning and developing relationships with New Zealand’s largest and most strategic companies.
As an Enterprise Account Executive, New Business, you will establish and grow a new enterprise territory. You will identify must-win accounts, build a high-conviction pipeline, develop executive relationships, and lead complex sales cycles that help prospective users use Stripe to modernise and grow their businesses.
What you’ll do
- Build and execute a territory strategy for New Zealand’s largest prospective enterprise users.
- Create new pipeline through thoughtful outbound prospecting, account research, partner engagement, executive networking, and targeted account plans.
- Own the full new-business sales cycle, from initial outreach and discovery through solution design, commercial negotiation, close, and transition to implementation and post-sales teams.
- Develop trusted relationships with senior business and technical stakeholders, including leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, Digital, and Technology.
- Lead complex, multi-threaded sales processes involving multiple business units, decision-makers, and internal and externa
Tools & Tech Stack
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 questionAccount Executives are the revenue engine of any sales organization — this role will require strong pipeline management and closing skills.
Top SaaS reps often earn significant upside through accelerators once quota is exceeded.
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