GTM Industry - Gaming and Creator Platforms Lead

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.

Creating long term value for our customers is central to our mission at Stripe. The GTM Industries team focuses on long term growth and value creation for enterprise customers and for Stripe, by understanding the unique challenges they face in their industry and how to solve them.

We focus on building Stripe's expertise within key business verticals, while delivering credibility and thought leadership needed to build relationships with industry leaders to grow the value of their business. Aligned with our GTM and Product teams, the Industry GTM Leads also define relevant, value-centric solutions, support our customers and generate new sources of value for customers and Stripe

Our team provides deep industry expertise across Stripe while leading enterprise business development, partnering with some of our most exciting enterprise and large Saas platforms customers to address their business challenges and help them grow with Stripe.

As a key member of the GTM Industry team, you will drive our growth strategy across gaming and creator platforms. You will provide the industry expertise needed to define and articulate the value of Stripe’s solutions in an industry context. As an industry expert, you will bring immediate credibility when engaging with senior executives.

You will collaborate with the core sales, marketing, product marketing, and product teams to embed deep industry knowledge and support account teams to drive strategic deals. You will be instrumental in leading in-depth product discussions with existing and prospective customers – and building and executing against our go to market strategy.

• Represent Stripe at Industry events, communities, online events and provide differentiated perspective on industry trends
• Identify prospective enterprise customers across Gaming and Creator Platforms and supporting account teams in business development, pipeline creation and revenue generation
• Craft high-impact, executive level narrative and presentations for CxOs while working cross functionally with our Sales and Presales teams
• Support GTM account team across the sales cycle to accelerate the growth of our business with existing and prospective customers, bringing industry experience
• Serve as both an internal and customer-facing expert on the Gaming industry for Stripe, keeping abreast of global industry and technology trends
• Support and enable sales teams to understand your industry more deeply, creating industry playbooks and leading enablement on industry insights
• Conduct ongoing research on industry trends to inform GTM strategy, product market fit, and marketing campaigns to identify companies who could partner with Stripe to drive value in their business
• Build strong relationships with regional sales leaders to be a key driver on strategic account planning and engagements
• Support the Partnerships team in identifying, prioritizing and engaging with key partners to build a global ecosystem that powers Stripe’s leadership in gaming

The Gaming and Creator Platforms GTM Lead is a seasoned professional with strong business strategy, business development and go-to-market business model experience.

You are an expert in Gaming/Creator Platforms having worked directly in the industry and deeply understand the challenges facing players across this space. You are capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization.

This person will have strong capability in solution definition, excellent communication skills (can clearly describe strategy and drill into tactics), and the ability to interact with all functions, disciplines, and levels in the organization.

You are used to building value in competitive situations and enjoy working on products that require deep product understanding, combined with technical knowledge. You’re as comfortable working with clients as with internal stakeholders (including executives). You’re excited to become an expert and to share your knowledge.

You’re an organized self-starter, an excellent communicator who is highly analytical and has a track record for improving the processes and organizations around you. You like to roll-up your sleeves and make things happen!

• 10+ years experience in payments or technology industry related roles with deep knowledge of Gaming and a track record of top performance.
• Desired: A commercial mindset, ideally with direct sales experience closing new business and/or expansion of existing customers.
• Ability to understand complex technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in defining customer needs and translating those needs into solutions and Gaming strategies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to derive actionable insights from large amounts of information and clearly articulate complex ideas.
• A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships and influence outcomes with business partners.
• A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results.
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality and thrive in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to travel around 35% to industry events, Stripe-led events or key customer meetings.

• Payments and/or Enterprise Software industry experience
• Experience in a top-tier management consulting firm
• Prior experience leading/growing a high growth industry-focused team
• Direct or indirect Sales experience
• Industry lead position