Enterprise Partnerships Lead

Who we are 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 revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We have significant work ahead, which creates an opportunity to do meaningful, high-impact work with colleagues and users around the world. About the team Stripe’s New Zealand business is growing, and we are building our enterprise new-business capability in the market. The Enterprise team focuses on winning and developing relationships with New Zealand’s largest and most strategic companies. As an Enterprise Account Executive, New Business, you will establish and grow a new enterprise territory. You will identify must-win accounts, build a high-conviction pipeline, develop executive relationships, and lead complex sales cycles that help prospective users use Stripe to modernise and grow their businesses. What you’ll do Build and execute a territory strategy for New Zealand’s largest prospective enterprise users. Create new pipeline through thoughtful outbound prospecting, account research, partner engagement, executive networking, and targeted account plans. Own the full new-business sales cycle, from initial outreach and discovery through solution design, commercial negotiation, close, and transition to implementation and post-sales teams. Develop trusted relationships with senior business and technical stakeholders, including leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, Digital, and Technology. Lead complex, multi-threaded sales processes involving multiple business units, decision-makers, and internal and external stakeholders. Articulate Stripe’s business and technical value across the platform, connecting customer priorities to measurable commercial outcomes. Partner closely with Solutions Architects, Product, Partnerships, Marketing, Legal, Deal Pri

About the Team We’re looking for a Merchant Experience Partner (MXP) to join our ANZ Merchant Experience team, owning end-to-end, white-glove relationships with our highest-value merchants — across Restaurant or New Vertical categories including grocery, alcohol, convenience and retail. About the Role At its core, this role is about merchant-facing case resolution but we want to shift how we do that: working proactively, spotting and solving problems before merchants raise them, rather than just reacting when they do. You’ll have real scope to shape how we work with merchants, bringing ideas, taking initiative, and influencing new ways of working. You’ll be commercially minded, comfortable with ambiguity, and confident building trust with a wide range of stakeholders, from Enterprise merchants and Franchisees to Sales, Operations and Product teams. Please note: the initial training period for this role requires full-time, in-office attendance, five days a week, before transitioning to our 3-day hybrid pattern (Monday, Thursday and one other day of your choice). You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build strong, cross-functional relationships — working alongside your assigned Account Owners to manage a dedicated portfolio of merchants Support complex, high-touch, white-glove case ownership, end to end Work proactively to spot and resolve issues before merchants raise them, rather than just reacting when they do Represent Merchant Support at both the internal table and with merchants, feeding insights back to help drive operational improvements Bring your own ideas to the table helping influence new ways of working with merchants Prioritise your portfolio commercially by revenue value, expansion opportunity and advocacy potential, not just by first in first out method Manage competing deadlines across a complex, cross-functional stakeholder group We’re excited about you because you… Have 2+ years’ experience in Account Management, Customer Success,