Solution Sales Executive

39 Fair Isaac Canada, Ltd.; Canada; Remote; CAD 225,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Work-life balance

Employee resource groups

Social events

Job summary

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is seeking a dynamic senior sales professional to join our Global Platform Software Sales team in Canada. You will lead Land and Expand initiatives around the FICO Platform for large financial institutions.

In this overlay enterprise SaaS role, you’ll articulate value, build executive relationships, and partner with Pre-Sales and Solution Architects to shape proposals. Travel up to 50% is required.

Qualifications

• Proven senior-level experience building and managing relationships with senior executives in large financial institutions.
• Track record of structuring and closing multi-million deals, including SaaS-based solutions.
• Knowledge of credit risk, fraud, originations, collections, or customer management in financial services.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

• Land and expand within enterprise accounts across lending and retail banking.
• Engage with stakeholders to position FICO Platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with Pre-Sales and Solution Architects to shape proposals.
• Manage quarterly and annual targets with upside when exceeded.
• Partner with Global Solution Architecture, Product Development, Finance, and Services.
• Educate customers on business value of FICO Platform.

Skills

Senior sales leadership

Enterprise solution sales

Financial services domain

Strategic planning

Technical fluency

Growth mindset

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Collaborative leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfil your career potential! The Opportunity FICO is seeking a dynamic and strategic sales professional to join our Global Platform Software Sales team.

In this overlay sales role, you’ll be at the forefront of evangelizing and selling the FICO® Platform—a cutting‑edge decision intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to build, deploy, and scale smarter business decisions across the customer lifecycle.

You’ll work with a dedicated portfolio of enterprise accounts — both existing and new — to drive initial adoption ("Land") and expansion ("Expand") of the FICO Platform.

Partnering with a variety of internal stakeholders, your role is critical in helping clients understand how the FICO Platform serves as the brain and central nervous system for designing, operationalizing, and optimizing customer journeys at scale.

What You’ll Contribute

Work with existing and potential customers to understand their key initiatives in Consumer Lending and Retail Banking across Marketing, Originations, Customer Management, Personalization, Collections, and Fraud.

Share expertise and thought leadership in Decisioning, Analytics, & Optimization within Financial Services to help our clients leapfrog the competition, leveraging FICO’s cutting‑edge Platform.

Build relationships with senior client stakeholders in Business and Technology to gain insight into their most urgent decision management‑related problems while articulating FICO’s platform capabilities.

Research and shape potential solution opportunities through collaborative engagement with internal Key Account Managers, Pre‑Sales Domain Experts and Pre‑Sales Architects to formulate and effectively position solution proposals.

Ensure clients are delighted with solutions purchased to create win‑win relationships that are long‑term, expanding, and profitable.

Collaborate with internal FICO teams, including Global Solution Architecture, Product Development, Finance, and Professional Services, to shape a cohesive sales effort that educates our customers on the tremendous business value the FICO Platform delivers.

Work with the largest and most advanced Financial Institutions as well as a core set of leaders in other sectors.

Manage sales to quarterly and annual targets, with significant earnings upside when targets are exceeded.

What We’re Seeking

• Proven Senior-Level Experience: Demonstrated success in building and managing strategic relationships with senior executives, particularly within large financial institutions.
• Enterprise Solution Sales Expertise: A track record of structuring and closing complex, multi-million‑dollar deals, including SaaS‑based solutions that expand existing offerings or integrate into larger solution bundles.
• Financial services depth: Working knowledge of at least [two] of: credit risk, fraud, originations, collections, or customer management in retail banking/consumer lending.
• Strategic Vision and Execution: Ability to craft and execute joint business plans that align with client objectives and FICO’s strategic priorities.
• Technical fluency (not a coding role): You are not expected to write code, but you can credibly discuss platform architecture, system integration, cloud deployment, and AI/ML‑driven decisioning with both business and IT stakeholders, and partner with Pre‑Sales Architects to shape solutions.
• Growth Mindset: A Passion to learn and educate customers and FICO colleagues through presentations and conversations.
• Strong soft skills, a genuine interest in people, and a desire to help them be wildly successful.
• Resiliency: Able to maintain focus and effectiveness under pressure, adaptable to change, and recover quickly from setbacks.
• Collaborative Leadership: A team‑oriented mindset that values collaboration and leverages the collective strengths of colleagues to deliver exceptional results.
• Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 50% to maintain a close partnership with the client and foster meaningful, face‑to‑face interactions.
• Educational Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent commercial experience.
• Highly Desired: Proven Sales and/or Senior Pre‑sales experience for 3 or more years selling an enterprise software solution to the financial services/banking industry.

Our Offer to You

An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people‑first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

The targeted base pay range for this role is: $161,200 to $211,200 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience. #LI-AJ1 #LI-Remote

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest‑growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue.

We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success.

Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment.

We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.

Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

Information submitted with your application is subject to the FICO Privacy policy at https://www.fico.com/en/privacy-policy

FICO powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper.

Founded in 1956, FICO has been the trusted backbone of financial decisioning for more than seven decades.

We empower businesses worldwide with applied intelligence and advanced analytics to transform complex data into fair, explainable, and actionable decisions — enabling smarter outcomes, stronger customer relationships, and sustainable growth.

FICO clients include more than half of the top 100 banks in the world, more than 600 personal and commercial line insurers in North America and Europe, 400+ retailers and general merchandisers, all of the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers, and more.

FICO is a global leader in analytics software, empowering businesses to make smarter, faster decisions through cutting‑edge data science, machine learning, and AI.

Creators of the iconic FICO® Score — the standard in credit decisioning — and recognized in both the Forrester Wave™ and Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for its decision