Full-Time

Senior Enterprise Sales Manager

Pliant

Pliant

201-500 employees

B2B payment platform with corporate cards

No salary listed

Berlin, Germany

Hybrid

Hybrid work is based at the Berlin headquarters.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
CRM
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • Proven experience as a top performer in enterprise sales managing sales processes with large corporations and enterprise clients.
  • A track record in outbound acquisition and closing complex, high-value deals.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills for engaging senior enterprise stakeholders.
  • Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers across large organizations.
  • Fluent German and English language skills.
  • Berlin-based availability for the hybrid work model.
Responsibilities
  • Identify, prospect, and acquire mid-market and large corporations and enterprise clients across the DACH region through targeted outbound outreach.
  • Own the full enterprise sales cycle, including discovery, demonstrations, negotiation, and closing of complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
  • Develop and execute outbound strategies to build a pipeline of high-value enterprise prospects, including organizations using competing travel account or lodge card solutions.
  • Own accounts, communicate with senior decision-makers, and position Pliant as a superior product and service alternative.
  • Understand prospects' needs and pain points, ask appropriate questions, and demonstrate how Pliant delivers additional value.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience selling complex financial, payment, or corporate travel solutions.
  • Experience with corporate cards, particularly lodge cards or travel account cards.
  • An existing network of Finance decision-makers within large mid-market and enterprise organizations.
  • Additional European language skills.

Pliant provides a B2B payments platform built around smart corporate Visa cards, offering physical and virtual cards with high limits, up to 1% cashback, and flexible repayment. Its API-first platform enables real-time expense tracking, automated receipt management, and seamless integration with accounting, invoicing, and travel expense systems, with multi-currency support under an EU e-money license. The company differentiates itself with its CaaS offering for partner-branded card programs, strong API integration, and CO2 offsetting through Pliant Earth with Cozero. Its goal is to simplify and scale corporate spending by making spend management transparent and enabling businesses and partners to deploy card programs across Europe.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$225.7M

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Pliant launched U.S. commercial cards on Visa in August 2026.
  • The company hired New York commercial sales staff in February 2026.
  • Pliant added hi.health in 2025, opening insurance payments and cross-sell opportunities.

What critics are saying

  • Coastal dependence exposes Pliant to sponsor-bank friction, compliance delays, and program shutdowns.
  • Ramp, Brex, and American Express pressure margins after Pliant enters the U.S. market.
  • If U.S. onboarding stalls, Pliant burns Series B cash before achieving scale.

What makes Pliant unique

  • Pliant combines card issuing, reconciliation, and spend controls on one API-first platform.
  • Its Cards-as-a-Service product lets partners launch branded B2B card programs fast.
  • The U.S. Visa launch with Coastal and Thredd extends its European model abroad.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Meal Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

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Yahoo Finance
Aug 4th, 2026
Thredd and Pliant launch U.S. commercial credit platform with embedded finance and API-driven reconciliation

Thredd has expanded its partnership with Pliant to launch a commercial credit programme in the US market. The collaboration brings Pliant's embedded finance platform, which offers physical and virtual credit cards with built-in reconciliation and spend controls, to American businesses for the first time. The programme is live on the Visa network with bank sponsorship from Coastal, following a soft rollout in late 2025. Pliant's platform combines credit issuance with lending decisioning and reconciliation tools, enabling businesses to manage expenses and reporting through a single solution. Berlin-based Pliant, founded in 2020, previously operated solely in Europe. The company is now expanding its executive leadership team in the US as part of its North American growth plans. The partnership leverages Thredd's API-driven issuer processing platform to enable cross-border expansion.

Associated Press
Jul 14th, 2026
Pliant launches in the US via Coastal partnership to expand B2B payments platform

Pliant, a Berlin-based fintech specialising in B2B payment solutions, has launched in the United States through a partnership with Coastal Financial Corporation. Coastal will serve as Pliant's sponsor bank, enabling compliant market entry and scalability in the commercial card market. The collaboration allows Pliant to support agent-based issuing structures and expand across the US banking ecosystem. Founded in 2020, Pliant operates a modular payments platform combining card issuing and spend management through an API-first system. Coastal, based in Everett, Washington, provides Banking-as-a-Service solutions through its CCBX segment. The bank holding company operates Coastal Community Bank, which has $4.74 billion in assets and maintains 14 branches across Washington state counties.

IT桔子
May 7th, 2025
Pliant Secures $40M Series B Funding

Pliant, a company specializing in next-generation corporate credit cards, has secured $40 million in a Series B funding round. The investment was led by Illuminate Financial.

Fintech Gate
Apr 30th, 2025
Pliant raises $40M in Series B funding

European fintech startup Pliant has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to over $100 million. The company aims to expand into the U.S. market, offering smart and flexible B2B payment solutions. The round was co-led by Illuminate Financial. Pliant recently acquired Austrian insurtech hi.health to integrate payment options into insurance claims. The previous funding round, supported by PayPal Ventures, raised $19 million.

Handelsblatt
Apr 29th, 2025
Pliant Raises $40M for US Expansion

Fintech company Pliant has raised $40 million to support its expansion into the US market. The firm, specializing in corporate credit cards, aims to accompany its European clients in their US ventures, recognizing significant potential in the American market despite ongoing trade disputes.