Account Executive, Startups (Hunter)
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Stripe filed 3 certified H-1B applications for sales roles, 1 of them for account executive roles, between 1 October 2025 and 30 June 2026, by the US Labor Department's record: who sponsors sales roles.
The posting
About Stripe
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 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 team
Stripe’s Startups Account Executive team sits within our Hunter (New Business) Sales function and is responsible for closing net-new accounts for Stripe. You have the opportunity to sell the entire suite of Stripe products and run the full sales cycle through onboarding.
What you’ll do
As a Startup Account Executive at Stripe, you will drive Stripe’s future growth engine by building relationships with founders of the fastest growing venture-backed companies. You’ll manage inbound leads and the full sales cycle through onboarding, turning them into happy Stripe users.
Responsibilities
- Own the full sales cycle from lead to close for startups
- Identify high-potential prospective users from inbound leads
- Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process, including engaging with Accelerators and VC firms
- Engage with Product, Marketing and User Operations teams to help amplify our growth trajectory
Who you are
You’re a motivated, users-first driven individual, capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization. You have experience working with startups or small/medium businesses, or are currently in a client facing role. You have an understanding of the buyer journey and can lead short, single stakeholder deals as well as complex multi-party sales in a highly consultative manner. You are used to building value in competitive situations and enjoy working on products that require deep understanding, combined with technical knowledge. As a member of the Funded Startup team, you’ll incubate and launch new sales channels for prospective users. Finally, you’ll develop scalable strategies and repeatable processes that enable us to amplify the number of new businesses joining Stripe.
If you’re hungry, smart, persistent, and a great teammate, we want to hear from you!
Minimum requirements
- 2+ years of sales or client facing experience, preferably at a high-growth Saas company, bank, consultancy or venture capital firm, with a track record of top performance
- Ability to understand the Stripe API and build great relationships with highly technical founders
- Ability to understand complex requirements and craft custom solutions
- Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities including comfort with basic modeling
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
- Strong interest in technology
Taken from Stripe's own posting, last seen live on 13 Nov 2026.
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The application
Your details, then 9 questions.
- 1.Are you currently based in San Francisco (within 35 miles) and open to working on a hybrid model spending at least 50% of the time in our South SF office in Oyster Point?Pick one
- 2.Please select the country where you currently reside.Pick one (31 options)
- 3.Please select the country or countries you anticipate working in for the role in which you are applying.Pick any (30 options)
- 4.Are you authorized to work in the location(s) you selected in your previous response?Yes or no
- 5.Will you require Stripe to sponsor you for a work permit now or in the future for the location(s) you selected in in your previous response?Yes or no
- 6.Have you ever been employed by Stripe or a Stripe affiliate?Yes or no
- 7.Who is your current or previous employer?Short answer
- 8.What is your current or previous job title?Short answer
- 9.Do you opt-in to receive WhatsApp messages from Stripe Recruiting?Yes or no
From Stripe's apply page, checked 10 Nov 2026.
About Stripe
Payments, billing and money-movement software sold to startups, platforms and global enterprises.
Pay schedule: Salaried Stripe employee on an OTE plan that mixes base pay with sales commission or a sales bonus; listings name equity among the possible extras.
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