Head of Sales Development, AMER

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Sales Development is a customer-facing team that connects prospective customers with Stripe. The AMER Sales Development org generates roughly 60% of Stripe's overall sales pipeline through a hybrid inbound and outbound motion, using a multi-touch, multi-method strategy that includes personalized email, LinkedIn outreach, video prospecting, and phone calls. The team covers every market segment, from startups to enterprise, and partners closely with Sales, Marketing, and Sales Development Systems to keep pipeline generation aligned with go-to-market priorities.

What it asks for · 16

• You have 10+ years of relevant commercial leadership experience in Sales, Sales Development, Revenue Operations, Enablement, lead qualification, or a related function.
• You have led leaders at scale and can demonstrate how you have developed managers, built a leadership bench, and delivered ambitious outcomes through a multi-layer organisation.
• You have deep experience across inbound and outbound sales-development motions, including qualification, routing, handoff, conversion, pipeline quality, and commercial performance management.
• You are AI-first in your approach to operating-model design: you can apply automation and agents pragmatically while protecting user experience, quality, and sound human judgment.
• You have a record of improving qualified pipeline, SQOs, conversion, progression, and revenue impact—not activity volume alone.
• You are highly analytical and can use funnel, capacity, and outcome data to diagnose problems, make trade-offs, and drive execution.
• You have strong cross-functional influence and know how to work with Sales, Marketing, Growth, Operations, and systems teams to create shared plans and accountability.
• You are comfortable leading through ambiguity, taking informed risks, and driving necessary change with clarity, urgency, and care for people.
• You communicate clearly, operate with high integrity, and take ownership for outcomes.
• Leader of leaders: proven manager-of-managers leadership, including manager development, organizational design, and accountability through layers.
• AI-first operating leadership: ability to redesign roles, workflows, and capacity around agents and automation while protecting user experience, quality, and sound human judgment.
• Full-funnel ownership: a record of improving qualified pipeline, SQOs, conversion, progression, and revenue outcomes—not activity volume alone.
• Commercial partnership: credibility with Sales and Marketing leaders, including source-mix planning, shared funnel accountability, and seller-handoff design.
• Operating rigor: strong data fluency, consistent management systems, weekly performance reviews, and the ability to separate scalable standards from appropriate experimentation.

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Also a plus

• Experience leading AI-assisted sourcing or SDR-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with MEDDIC-style qualification, pipeline defibrillation, aging-pipeline recovery, or later-funnel commercial support.
• Experience developing internal AE talent into people leaders or Sales Development managers.
• Deep familiarity with AMER segment design, field-sales coverage, vendor operations, or commercial-systems partnerships.

What the job covers

• Lead the AMER Sales Development org through a team of sales development managers, who in turn manage the SDRs driving roughly 60% of Stripe's overall sales pipeline
• Set segmentation and coverage strategy across startups, digital natives, commercial, and enterprise accounts, and direct how managers structure their teams to pursue the right leads and accounts for quality and volume
• Own outbound strategy for AMER, including target markets, account and contact prioritization, and multi-touch outreach across email, LinkedIn, video, and phone, and translate that strategy into direction for your managers
• Partner with AMER sales leadership, Marketing, and Sales Development Systems to align pipeline targets, lead routing, and tooling (including agentic outreach and account intelligence systems) with go-to-market priorities
• Develop and coach sales development managers directly, building their people management and pipeline strategy skills, and build bench strength and succession plans across the AMER SDR org
• Manage the org against opportunity count and cumulative revenue generation, reviewing manager-level performance and reallocating coverage or adjusting strategy where the data points to it
• Represent Sales Development in AMER sales leadership planning, bringing an operator's view of pipeline health, capacity, and org productivity

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Words the posting leans on

• sales26×
• sales development15×
• pipeline14×
• leader10×
• managers10×
• amer sales9×
• commercial8×
• experience7×
• leadership7×
• marketing6×
• qualification6×
• strategy6×
• systems6×
• capacity5×
• lead5×
• org5×

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