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Job overview
Stripe’s Platform Sales team helps software platforms embed payments technology into their solutions. The Startups Sales Manager, Platform Partnerships leads a team of account executives focused on expanding Stripe’s global footprint with enterprise SaaS platforms. The role drives deal strategy, develops executive relationships, shapes product roadmaps and sales practices, and is accountable for revenue growth.
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Full job description
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 Platform Sales team is a highly consultative, enterprise sales team that is responsible for some of Stripe’s largest and fastest growing partners. Stripe helps software platforms offer more value to their customers by embedding Stripe’s powerful payments technology into their solution. As a Platform Sales Manager, you will play a critical role on our go-to-market leadership bench-- leading a team of AEs to make payments-as-a-service a competitive advantage for high-growth organizations. What you’ll do
- Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service and outstanding execution
- Oversee the expansion of Stripe’s footprint with global saas platforms
- Make hiring decisions, honing our ideal candidate profile and onboarding strategy
- Create structure and focus for GTM ideas and product sales campaigns that the product team is exploring. Drive execution and measurement. Analyze results and make recommendations for action in a timely manner.
- Define key sales support mechanisms, processes, and programs to meet the rapid growth of the business and achieve revenue attainment and market development objectives
- Build a world-class organization and write the playbook for the era of monetizing payments on platform
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of sophisticated Existing Business, Platform AEs focused on expanding our global footprint with enterprise SaaS platforms
- Drive deal strategy and partner across the business to ensure healthy pipeline, funnel conversion, win rate, and margin preservation across the portfolio
- Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to shape Stripe's product roadmap and drive best practices on selling and forecasting
- Engage with the largest strategic opportunities, leading executive relationships
- Being accountable for delivering revenue growth
How this job compares
Set against the 6,510 open Sales Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$92–137K/yr162 salary ranges
- Illinois median$16–22/hr29 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 235 open Sales Manager jobs in Illinois and 6,510 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Michaels20 open
- Stripe (this employer)9 open
- American Express Global Business Travel8 open
- Experience
- Sales Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (4,497 postings).
- Education
- 779 of the 6,510 open Sales Manager jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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