Account Executive, SMB Outbound

Job Summary:

As PayPal continues its mission to revolutionize commerce, we’re looking for an Account Executive, SMB Outbound to join our Small and Medium Business Sales team in Germany.

Every new SMB merchant we bring on is a small business getting a better way to get paid and grow.

Your tasks

In this role, you’ll acquire new merchants — including winback business — from partner platforms, working across a mix of DBM, partner-generated and AI-supported prospecting leads.

It’s a fast-paced, high-volume acquisition role: you’ll qualify opportunities, present a clear value proposition, handle merchant objections, and support a smooth handover of newly acquired merchants to the Account Representative team.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Engage and collaborate with the immediate team.
• Contribute to solutions and suggest efficiencies.
• Exercise judgment on issues of importance.
• Acquire, manage, and expand relationships with small and medium-sized merchants.
• Prioritize work and ensure task completion guided by policies and procedures.

What You’ll Do

• Qualify partner-sourced and AI-qualified leads, prioritising outreach against defined policies and procedures.
• Present standard onboarding and value propositions to merchants operating on partner platforms.
• Handle routine objections, close the right opportunities, and support a smooth path to PayPal acceptance.
• Keep accurate activity, pipeline and next-step records, and hand newly acquired merchants to the Account Representative team with complete context.

Your profile

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

What We’re Looking For

• Skilled at qualifying leads quickly, asking focused questions, spotting fit, and advancing the right opportunities efficiently.
• A clear, confident communicator who can explain value in terms that resonate with merchants and handle common objections calmly.
• Disciplined about pipeline hygiene, accurate stages, next actions and follow-up cadence, even across a high-volume funnel.
• A collaborative partner who can work within established playbooks, ask for support when needed, and ensure a complete handover to the Account Representative team.
• Experience in sales, customer acquisition, inside sales or a comparable customer-facing environment is a plus.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

We Believe in You

We offer

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are:

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at .

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates.

Interested?

Don’t hesitate to apply or reach out and let’s talk — we’d love to get to know you!

Please don’t hesitate to apply.

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Veröffentlicht am 01. Nov. 2026

Veröffentlicht am 01. Nov. 2026

Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Tabelle; dl-de/by-2-0; eigene Berechnung