Financial AI Sales Development Manager

NexusSearch International Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

NexusSearch International Limited is seeking a market builder to launch their AI-native financial intelligence suite across institutional clients in Hong Kong and Singapore. The role involves full-cycle sales including lead generation, pitching, and contract closure for AI research and data products.

The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or Data Science and have over 4 years of institutional sales or business development experience in fintech or related fields.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of institutional sales or business development experience in fintech or related fields.
• Established network in asset management, hedge funds, or private banking.
• Proven track record in B2B sales processes including procurement and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Full-cycle sales across HK/SG institutions.
• Build partnerships with banks, vendors, and universities.
• Drive local go-to-market strategies and client mapping.
• Navigate regulatory requirements for financial data compliance.
• Develop sales playbooks and reference client cases.

Skills

Institutional sales experience

B2B sales track record

Financial network in HK/SG

Fluent in English and Mandarin

Basic grasp of financial research workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Econ/CS/Data Science

Job description

Location: Hong Kong / Singapore

Seeking market builder to launch our AI-native financial intelligence suite across HK & SG institutional client base. Feel free to share local market insights if you have them.

Company Snapshot

AI-first fintech building vertical financial AI tools: proprietary financial datasets, LLM research agents, factor/quant strategy systems for asset managers, hedge funds, family offices, private banks & quant desks. We are scaling our institutional footprint in HK and SG, hiring a ground-up sales lead to build local client pipelines & industry partnerships.

Core Responsibilities

1. Full-cycle institutional sales across HK/SG buyside & wealth institutions: lead gen, pitching, PoC coordination, negotiation & contract closure for our AI research/data products
2. Build fintech ecosystem partnerships with banks, data vendors, consultancies, industry bodies & universities to expand market reach
3. Drive local go-to-market: client mapping, industry events, flagship pilot projects, feed market feedback to product teams for regional localization
4. Navigate HK/SG regulatory basics for financial data, AI vendor onboarding & cross-border data compliance
5. Build repeatable sales playbooks & local reference client cases

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Econ, CS, Data Science or related disciplines
• 4+ years institutional sales / BD experience in fintech, financial data, AI SaaS, quant research or wealth tech
• Established HK/SG financial network (asset management, hedge fund, private banking clients highly preferred)
• Proven end-to-end B2B sales track record including PoC, procurement & compliance workflows
• Basic grasp of financial research workflows, LLMs, quantitative data tools
• Fluent English & Mandarin; conversational Cantonese a bonus
• Self-starter, comfortable fast-paced early-stage startup environment