About the role
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
Deal Pricing is a dedicated global function that provides deal pricing expertise, financial insights, and deal support for negotiated users to Stripe's global Go-to-Market teams. We work to ensure deals create economic value for Stripe by establishing the deal commercial framework for a scaling sales organization, actively supporting large and strategic deals and providing pricing insights and feedback to sales, finance, and product leaders. Deal Pricing frequently works with cross-functional business partners across Operations, Finance and Strategy, and Product. There is constant collaboration with Deal Pricing colleagues across all regions. AMER Deal Pricing covers teams in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Team members are located in Stripe offices and remote locations across the region.
What You’ll Do
You'll be instrumental in providing thought leadership to regional sales teams and senior executives and continuing to develop our framework, approach, and associated processes in order to achieve mutually beneficial deals with our sold Users while mitigating risk to Stripe. In addition to providing key financial insights and recommendations to business partners and Stripe leadership, you'll have a chance to stretch beyond the boundaries of finance through business case development and commercial negotiations with all types of customers across the full suite of Stripe's financial and payment products.
Responsibilities
Serve as a key financial and strategic thought partner to specific AMER Go-to-Market sales teams and their leadership in both pricing deals at scale and pricing strategic deals
Be responsible for defining and implementing our pricing and margin guidance and identifying levers for financial uplift
Develop and refine new frameworks to evaluate a deal's attractiveness to Stripe, ensuring alignment between these frameworks, the company's long-range plan, and mutually agreeable outcomes with cross-functional business partners
Maintain up-to-date pricing benchmarks and contribute to team analytical design and production efforts, using this data to enhance our pricing philosophy
Who You Are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
3+ years of experience in finance or deal pricing at a company, or experience within investment banking or management consulting
A proven ability to build collaborative working relationships with business partners through a combination of influencing and awareness
The ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment by driving business results without significant supervision
Excellent financial modeling, verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the payments or technology sector
Experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership, preferably to sales or go-to-market business partners
Experience with SQL and Tableau or a willingness to learn is a must.
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