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Account Executive – Nordics (Hunter)
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Stripe is seeking an enterprise Account Executive to win net-new mid-market and enterprise customers across the Nordic region. The role owns the full complex sales cycle, including prospecting, discovery, technical qualification, business-case development, negotiations, and contract execution. It requires independent pipeline creation, executive-level relationship building, and collaboration with sales engineering, product, and leadership teams. Candidates need at least six years of SaaS or fintech sales experience and a demonstrated record of exceeding new-logo and ARR targets. Payments expertise and a Nordic language are preferred, particularly for closing large enterprise opportunities.
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Sample interview questions
I start with a focused ideal-customer profile, identify trigger events such as expansion, funding, product launches, or payment complexity, and map both business and technical stakeholders. I then use a coordinated sequence of personalized outreach, executive networking, relevant customer stories, and insight-led messaging tied to each account’s strategic priorities.
I establish a mutual action plan early, confirm decision criteria and process owners, and run separate but connected workstreams for technical validation, business value, security, and commercial terms. I keep stakeholders aligned through clear milestones, documented risks, and executive check-ins, ensuring that the commercial proposal reflects validated outcomes rather than generic product features.
I would first understand the company’s growth goals, payment architecture, geographic expansion plans, and operational pain points. I would position Stripe around the measurable value of its financial infrastructure, such as faster international expansion, improved authorization performance, reduced engineering burden, and the ability to launch new revenue models, supported by a tailored business case.
I prepare by understanding the customer’s true constraints, our value drivers, approval boundaries, and acceptable trade-offs before negotiations begin. During discussions, I protect value by exchanging concessions for commitments such as term length, volume, expansion scope, referenceability, or implementation milestones, while maintaining transparent internal alignment.
I diagnose whether the blocker is urgency, access, technical risk, commercial alignment, or an unclear decision process. I then re-engage the relevant stakeholders with a specific next step, quantify the cost of inaction, bring in the right internal expert, and update the mutual action plan so the opportunity has clear ownership and timing.
About this role.
Who we are
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
The Nordic team is a high-velocity, solution-oriented sales team dedicated to capturing market share and landing the region’s next generation of high-growth tech companies and enterprise category leaders. From Maersk to Lovable, we win new business by showing companies how Stripe’s financial infrastructure unlocks new revenue streams and powers international expansion.
What you’ll do
As an Enterprise Account Executive covering new business, you’ll identify new opportunities to expand Stripe’s footprint. Specifically, we’re looking for someone who can execute on long-term sales strategies, engage with internal and external stakeholders, align on technical and business requirements with product teams, build value in competitive situations, lead commercial negotiations, and close deals.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify, target, and acquire high-growth mid-market and enterprise prospects across the Nordic region to aggressively expand Stripe’s market footprint.
- Build and execute creative, hyper-targeted outbound strategies to open doors with executive decision-makers
- Lead complex sales processes from initial prospect contact and discovery through technical qualification, business case delivery, commercial negotiation, and contract execution.
- Perform strategic account mapping across target organizations to build deep, multi-threaded relationships with business and technical leaders.
- Collaborate with sales engineering, product, and leadership to refine outbound playbooks and elevate Stripe’s net-new acquisition strategy in the Nordics.
- Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process and help shape the Stripe sales culture.
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 6+ years of enterprise/mid-market SaaS or fintech sales experience with a proven track record of consistently exceeding net-new ARR and new logo quotas
- Ability to understand technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products
- Proactive experience sourcing pipeline independently through cold outreach, executive networking, and strategic prospecting.
- Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements.
- A knack for working well with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Strong presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
- Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
Preferred requirements
- Proven domain knowledge in payments (e.g, acquiring, payment orchestration, or embedded finance).
- A track record of closing complex, seven figure+ Enterprise deals
- Professional working proficiency in one of the Nordic languages
- Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
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