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SaaS
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About this role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life.
We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.
Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.Plaid's Europe Sales team helps the most innovative companies in financial services build the experiences their end users come back to.
We partner with the largest, most technically forward organisations in the UK and Europe, from scaled fintechs and neobanks to lenders, payments platforms, and forward-thinking financial institutions, to bring Plaid's platform into the core of their products. We don't sell payments alone.
We sell the customer understanding that drives loyalty and intent, with payment initiation, data, verification, underwriting, and insight on one platform. Through this work, we help advance our mission of unlocking financial freedom for everyone.We're looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to join our Europe Sales team.
You'll own a curated territory of named accounts with very high revenue potential and lead full-cycle, multi-product sales into them. You'll build executive relationships, identify and quantify Plaid's business impact across your accounts, and go deep and wide within each organisation to build the support needed to win.
You'll also lead a cross-functional deal team spanning Sales Engineering, Account Management, Product, Risk, and Legal, and h
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.
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Walk me through your discovery process.
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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 Plaid involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
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