Sales Manager, SMB, UKI

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 SMB team works with European businesses in one of Stripe’s high-growth and highest priority segments. At Stripe, SMB are companies with employee count under 100 employees. This is an existing business sales team where each AE manages approx 100 accounts. We protect revenue with excellent account management and partner focused relationships, lead on contract renewals with a strong commercial focus and excel in product upsell sales motions. What you’ll do In this role you and your team will own partnerships between Stripe and the most strategic and fastest-growing SMB and Mid-Market companies in EMEA. As a Sales Manager at Stripe, you’ll play an instrumental role in fueling Stripe’s growth in this high priority segment through coaching your team but also executive engagement across top accounts. You'll lead and coach high-performing account executives, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with users and prospects. We are looking for an individual who is keen to work alongside a high-performing team of individuals to navigate complex sales cycles. You’ll own team performance, focusing both on delivering key sales metrics while also thinking like a CEO to drive internal and external projects to make the team, and the segment, excel. You can balance sales excellence with a builder mentality to hit and exceed targets while setting the team up for long term success. Respon

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 EMEA SMB team is a highly consultative sales team that is responsible for new customer acquisition. What you’ll do As a Sales Manager at Stripe, you’ll play an instrumental role in fueling Stripe’s growth in Southern Europe through new customer acquisition. You'll lead and coach high-performing account executives, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with users and prospects. We are looking for an individual who is keen to work alongside a high-performing team of individuals to navigate complex organizations and find new opportunities to make payments a competitive advantage for their businesses. Responsibilities Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on the SMB segment in Southern Europe Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a focus on performance against key sales metrics Be accountable for new client acquisition Driving deal strategy and execution including strong pipeline development, opportunity management, and forecasting Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle Play a personal and direct role in building and maintaining enduring customer relationships, up to C-level Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase i

About the Team The SMB Sales team is focused on scaling efficient, high-quality sales execution across a range of commercial motions, including Inbound, Outbound, API Sales, Channel, and SDR. We partner closely with Sales Leadership, Revenue Operations, Finance, Enablement, Program Management, and external vendor partners to build scalable operating models that support growth while maintaining a high bar for performance and customer experience. About the Role As a Senior Vendor Manager, SMB Sales, you will own performance across our outsourced SMB Sales vendor network. This is not a traditional vendor management role. We’re looking for a performance-focused operator who can drive large-scale sales execution through vendor partners, rather than someone primarily focused on vendor relationship management. You will own regional and site-level performance across Tier 1 partners, with responsibility for sales performance, quality, forecasting, governance, operational readiness, and vendor leadership accountability across multiple sales motions. You’ll work at the intersection of Sales Leadership, Revenue Operations, Finance, Enablement, Program Management, and external vendor executives. You will help ensure the machine performs: surfacing issues early, creating accountability, and driving the operating rigor needed to deliver consistently strong outcomes at scale. In this role, you will: Own regional and site-level performance across revenue, pipeline, conversion, productivity, quality, and other key sales metrics. Inspect sales funnel health and diagnose whether performance gaps are driven by quality, execution, routing, enablement, staffing, or process issues. Surface underperformance early, diagnose the underlying drivers, and drive urgency around corrective action. Build clear corrective action plans with vendor leadership, establish measurable outcomes, and ensure strong follow-through. Lead Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Business Reviews, and Quarterly Business

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest’s Small & Medium Business team supports advertisers to help them reach their marketing goals. We’re looking for an experienced sales leader to lead an Agency Scaled segment for our EMEA SMB Account Management organization to achieve quarterly and annual revenue quotas, retention, and Average Revenue per Advertiser (ARPA) growth. The SMB Lead Industry Manager will evolve sales programs and build processes that will impact thousands of SMB agencies across all of EMEA. Success in this position requires strong ability to lead and inspire a team, sales and analytical skills to make data driven decisions, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a highly dynamic team environment. What you’ll do: Own revenue acceleration and sustained growth on key SMB accounts. Lead advanced deal management across a scaled boo

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta is growing quickly, and we're continually outpacing our growth targets while maintaining very strong NPS scores. Our Sales team is leading the charge in exceeding our revenue goals and growing our market share as the industry leader in compliance and security. We're scaling our Early Stage Sales team with customer-focused Account Executives who will take ownership of their entire sales cycle and distinguish Vanta as best-in-class to prospects in a burgeoning competitive landscape. This role will be based in our Dublin office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. What you’ll do as an Account Executive, EMEA (Startups) at Vanta: Identify high-potential business verticals to develop and execute outbound strategies to engage them with Vanta. Manage the entire sales cycle, from initial contact to contract negotiation and closing, with a focus on expediting deals within a 30-day timeframe. Turn our inbound demand into closed-new business and happy Vanta customers. Manage our sales pipeline, improving and maturing our sales process and playbook. Define and communicate the specific benefits of Vanta appropriate for each customer, including making sales materials and demos. Collect insights from prospects for our product development process. How to be successful in this role: Have 12+ months in a closing and quota-carrying role, while consistently exceeding monthly and quarterly sales targets. Be experienced in B2B SaaS, preferably in SMB with a focus on short deal cycles. Be fluent in German and English, with strong communication skills in both languages. Be high

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta is growing quickly, we're profitable, and we're continually outpacing our growth targets while maintaining very strong NPS scores. Our Sales team is leading the charge in exceeding our revenue goals and growing our market share as the industry leader in compliance and security. We're scaling our Startups Sales team with customer-focused Account Executives who will take ownership of their entire sales cycle and distinguish Vanta as best-in-class to prospects in a burgeoning competitive landscape. This role will be based in our Dublin office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. What you’ll do as an Account Executive, EMEA (Startups) at Vanta: Identify high-potential business verticals to develop and execute outbound strategies to engage them with Vanta. Manage the entire sales cycle, from initial contact to contract negotiation and closing, with a focus on expediting deals within a 30-day timeframe. Turn our inbound demand into closed-new business and happy Vanta customers. Manage our sales pipeline, improving and maturing our sales process and playbook. Define and communicate the specific benefits of Vanta appropriate for each customer, including making sales materials and demos. Collect insights from prospects for our product development process. How to be successful in this role: Have 12+ months in a closing and quota-carrying role, while consistently exceeding monthly and quarterly sales targets. Be experienced in B2B SaaS, preferably in SMB with a focus on short deal cycles. Be fluent in German and English, with strong communication skills in both lan