Sales Manager, SMB (German Speaker)

In this role you and your team will own partnerships between Stripe and the most strategic and fastest-growing SMB and Mid-Market companies in EMEA. As a Sales Manager at Stripe, you’ll play an instrumental role in fueling Stripe’s growth in this high priority segment through coaching your team but also executive engagement across top accounts.

You'll lead and coach high-performing account executives, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with users and prospects. We are looking for an individual who is keen to work alongside a high-performing team of individuals to navigate complex sales cycles.

You’ll own team performance, focusing both on delivering key sales metrics while also thinking like a CEO to drive internal and external projects to make the team, and the segment, excel. You can balance sales excellence with a builder mentality to hit and exceed targets while setting the team up for long term success.

• Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on SMB
• Help leadership to define and implement the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales metrics
• Support your team to develop and implement full sales cycle strategies from pipe-gen to deal closing to implementation
• Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle
• Solve complex client needs and work across product, sales, risk, and operations together with your team to improve our product
• Make sure that internal teams are set up for users’ success by coordinating with other Stripe teams such as Solution architects, SDRs, Marketing, Product and many more
• Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Stripe