Plaid
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Account Executive, Payments
Location
United States
Posted
57 days ago
Salary
$116.7K - $220.1K / year
Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Owns and drives company-wide revenue performance for Plaid’s Payments solutions, with clear accountability for ARR growth, pipeline generation, and deal execution.
• Maintains a rigorous revenue forecast for Payments solutions, ensuring visibility, accuracy, and predictable performance.
• Builds, hires, and leads a high-performing team aligned to revenue goals, ensuring coverage, productivity, and scalable sales execution.
• Acts as an executive seller and market expert, leading high-impact sales conversations, strategic customer engagements, and industry events to accelerate pipeline creation and close complex, enterprise deals.
• Develops top-tier sales talent by setting a high performance bar, coaching through real deals, and preparing team members for expanded scope and senior leadership roles.
• Coaches sellers with a challenger mindset, enabling teams to lead with insight, reframe customer payments strategies, and uncover net-new and expansion revenue opportunities.
• Maintains a real-time view of product-market fit across segments, verticals, and geographies, identifying growth levers and partnering cross-functionally to unlock new revenue opportunities.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to segment sales and product leadership, shaping and executing go-to-market strategies that maximize revenue impact for Payments solutions.
• Identifies structural, systems, and process gaps that limit revenue scale, partnering with GTM and Product leadership to prioritize and drive improvements.
• Plays a key role in quarterly and annual planning by setting ambitious revenue targets for Payments solutions and defining the strategy, resources, and execution plan required to exceed them.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant market experience in Payments focused solutions
- 3+ years of managing a revenue-driving team.
- Deep experience and market knowledge within the Payments space inclusive of ACH, credit cards and payment risk and money movement.
- Effective territory/account management: planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder and executive communication, needs analysis, value engineering, services/partner engagement, opportunity management, pipeline management, large dollar licensing and deal negotiation.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, and an ability to build relationships with prospects and customers, up to the C-suite.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across a variety of internal stakeholders.
- Excitement to work in a high-growth environment and to help build processes and scale product growth across the revenue team.
Benefits
- Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
- To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable.
- We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences.
- We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description.
- We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
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