Plaid · 2 hours ago
Account Executive Leader - Payments
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$117K/yr - $220K/yr
7+ years expPlaid is a company dedicated to empowering financial transformation by building tools for developers. As an Account Executive Leader - Payments, you will be responsible for driving the performance and growth of Plaid's Payment solutions, leading a team to close strategic deals and addressing customer needs in the payments space.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
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