Account Executive Leader Fraud

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo SoFi several of the Fortune 500 and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaids network covers 12000 financial institutions across the US Canada UK and Europe. Founded in 2013 the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York Washington D.C. London and Amsterdam.

The Fraud Product Sales team at Plaid is a specialist solutions-focused sales organization responsible for driving adoption and growth of Plaids emerging products across both new and existing customers. This team plays a critical role in scaling products translating customer needs into commercial opportunities and accelerating Plaids next phase of growth through consultative value-driven selling.

As Account Executive Leader - Fraud you will be responsible for the performance and growth of Plaids Fraud solutions serving as a player-coach who both leads and directly closes strategic deals. You will bring deep expertise across fraud risk and identity verification to drive new business and expansion partnering closely with Product and cross-functional Go-To-Market teams to shape sales strategy develop specialist AEs and translate complex customer fraud challenges into meaningful revenue-generating outcomes. This role is hands-on by design and is ideal for a seasoned fraud sales leader who thrives in ambiguity influences without direct authority and is motivated by scaling emerging solutions.

Responsibilities

• Owns and drives company-wide revenue performance for Plaids Fraud solutions with clear accountability for revenue growth pipeline generation and deal execution.

• Maintains a rigorous revenue forecast for Fraud solutions

• 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 risk and fraud 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 Fraud 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 Fraud solutions and defining the strategy resources and execution plan required to exceed them.

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant market experience.

• 3 years of managing a revenue-driving team.

• Deep experience and market knowledge within the Fraud space inclusive of Fraud Risk Identity Verification KYC/AML and Identity space.

• 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.

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

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