Plaid · 13 hours ago
Account Executive Leader - Fraud
Plaid is a company dedicated to empowering the transformation of financial interactions by building tools for developers. As the Account Executive Leader - Fraud, you will be responsible for leading the sales of Plaid’s Fraud solutions, driving revenue growth, and coaching a high-performing sales team. This role requires deep expertise in fraud and risk management, with a hands-on approach to closing strategic deals and developing sales talent.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Owns and drives company-wide revenue performance for Plaid’s 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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (41)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
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