Enterprise Account Executive - Hunter

    Stripe

    🇳🇿 Auckland
    SaaS
    Hybrid
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    Posted Today
    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

    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

    Outreach

    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

    Prospecting·Required skill
    Negotiation·Required skill

    Typical Day — Account Executive

    Stakeholder meetings3–5/week
    Executive presentations2–3/week
    Business cases & RFPs1–2/week
    Forecast & pipeline2×/week
    Champion coachingDaily

    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

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    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

    1195 Account Executives (APAC)
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    Walk me through your discovery process.

    Template question
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    How do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?

    Template question
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    Tell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.

    Template question
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    How do you build business cases for stakeholders?

    Template question
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    Describe a deal you lost and what you learned.

    Template question
    Research Stripe's product, recent news, and key competitors
    Prepare metrics: quota attainment %, average deal size, win rate
    Practice a 2-minute product demo pitch for a mock discovery call
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

    Account 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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