Strategic Account Executive, AI Sales

Who we areAbout StripeStripe 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 staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.About the teamThe AI GTM team is focused on one of Stripe's most strategic growth opportunities: enabling AI-native and AI-enabled businesses to scale on Stripe. We're in a unique position – partnering with the world's most ambitious AI companies (the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA) building on the frontier of artificial intelligence – across infrastructure, foundation models, agents, and applications – to grow globally with the help of Stripe's financial infrastructure.As part of Stripe's GTM organization, this team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape Stripe's AI GTM strategy and ensure that the world's leading AI companies – from early-stage innovators to the largest public players – choose to build with Stripe. What you'll doWork collaboratively with one of Stripe’s most strategic customers to realize their business goals. Our customers in the AI Industry move fast, you’ll work alongside your customer to develop and execute a multi-year partnership strategy that accelerates their ambitions with Stripe as a critical partner. This is a role that will require you to be an active participant in Stripe’s product strategy across the company, acting as a proxy for your customer within the walls of Stripe. You will interact with executives internally and externally to ensure your customer’s needs are well understood and prioritized. You will:Own full commercial sales cycles and partnership opportunities, from business case development, to deal structuring and negotiating, to closeDevelop a strategic account plan to expand Stripe’s commercial footprint within your customer’s business, driving growth through cross-sell, expansion, and new revenue streams Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewalsDevelop relationships with executive stakeholders within your customer’s business, deeply understanding problems they are trying to solve and helping them find durable solutionsBe responsible for account mapping and coordinating meaningful conversations with the appropriate stakeholders, internally and externally, to expand the customer relationshipLead and contribute to team projects, further Stripe’s use of AI tools and agents, and help refine our sales processes and culture in Stripe’s GTM organizationWho you areWe're looking for someone who operates with vision and urgency at the highest levels of enterprise sales. You combine deep commercial creativity with the executive presence to negotiate landmark agreements, and the strategic judgment to know which problems matter most. You thrive in ambiguity, create clarity for others, and have a track record of building and closing the largest, most complex deals in your organization's history.Minimum requirementsDemonstrated success closing transformational partnerships with bespoke commercial structures13+ years of sales experience selling technical products to large enterprises, with a sustained track record of top performance and quota overachievement4+ years leading complex sales cycles with Enterprise organizations requiredTrack record of leading and orchestrating large cross-functional teams through complex deal cycles with competing prioritiesProven ability to build and maintain executive relationships at the C-suite level and influence strategic decision-makingAbility to understand complex technical architectures and craft creative solutions that span multiple products and commercial modelsAbility to develop and execute account plans spanning multiple business units across a complex organization and subsidiaries Superior verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to command a room of senior executivesAbility to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environmentStrong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the AI industry History of shaping org-wide sales practices, mentoring peers, and contributing to team strategy beyond individual quota attainmentPreferred qualificationsExperience selling into or partnering with frontier AI companies, hyperscalers, or developer-first platforms Understanding of AI monetization models (token-based pricing, usage-based billing, consumption entitlements, API rate structures)Prior experience at a high-growth technology company where you helped define the go-to-market approach for a new or nascent market segmentFamiliarity with Stripe's products and the broader fintech/payments ecosystem