Sales Manager Fintech
Plaid is a financial technology company providing APIs and network connectivity for businesses to build financial products.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Plaid
Plaid operates a financial data network and API platform that lets businesses connect to financial institutions and build financial experiences. Its products support account and identity verification, real-time balance and transaction data, investment and liability data, income and underwriting workflows, fraud and AML risk checks, and multi-rail bank payments. It serves developers, businesses, financial institutions, platforms, lenders, banks, and consumer-facing financial-product providers.
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About the Role
You will lead a team of Territory Account Executives managing fintech accounts. You will coach expansion and new-logo opportunities, develop account strategies, grow multi-product relationships, manage pipeline and revenue targets, recruit talent, address performance, and support strategic deals.
Requirements
- 10+ years of B2B SaaS or platform and infrastructure sales experience
- Meaningful fintech payments or financial services experience
- 5+ years of frontline sales management experience
- Experience leading quota-carrying account executive teams
- Track record coaching account executives on $100K–$500K+ ARR accounts
- Experience with net-new logo acquisition
- Strong pipeline and forecast data discipline
- Cross-functional influencing ability
- Outstanding communication and executive presence
- Experience managing sales cycles from technical champion to C-suite buyer
- Coaching-first leadership style
- API-first or developer-focused product experience is a plus
- Consumption-based or usage-based pricing experience is a plus
- Open banking identity verification or payments infrastructure experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Manage 5–7 Territory Account Executives
- Coach account executives on expansion and new-logo opportunities
- Build account strategies and executive value messaging
- Drive multi-product adoption and executive relationships
- Manage consumption-based revenue targets through pipeline operating rhythms
- Develop sales talent through one-to-ones deal reviews and coaching
- Recruit and assess exceptional account executive talent
- Set performance expectations and address performance issues
- Collaborate with Marketing Product Account Management Legal and Commercial teams
- Coach strategic deals while preserving account executive ownership
Benefits
- Equity
- Commission
