Account Executive, Corporate Partnerships

Wall Street Bound, Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Paid time off

Salesforce access

Budget for travel

Marketing collateral support

Job summary

Wall Street Bound, Inc is seeking a high-ambition sales professional to build and own the corporate partnerships function in New York. You will source your own pipeline, manage the full sales cycle from cold outreach to closing, and own relationships with partners from onboarding to renewal and growth.

You will run multi-touch outbound, qualify opportunities, and coordinate with procurement and legal to close deals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a quota-carrying B2B sales role.
• Demonstrated cold prospecting.
• Full-cycle ownership from prospecting to close.
• Comfort selling into large, slow institutions.
• Based in the New York metro area.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain your target list of financial services firms and named decision makers.
• Run consistent cold outbound across phone, email, LinkedIn, and in-person: multi-touch sequences over weeks.
• Research firms and buyers to tailor outreach.
• Work conferences and referrals as supplementary channels.
• Hold a standard of 3 qualified first meetings per week; review with CEO.
• Nurture warm leads to close; conduct discovery to understand needs.
• Build tailored partnership proposals and present to budget holders.
• Manage the cycle to close including procurement, legal, and approvals.
• Own the commercial relationship with every account; drive renewals and expansions.

Skills

Quota-carrying B2B sales

Cold prospecting

Full-cycle ownership

New business development

Tools

Salesforce

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Job description

Wall Street Bound, Inc. (WSB) is a 501(c)(3) finance education nonprofit that recruits, mentors, and trains under-represented youth for internships and careers in the financial services industry. Our work has been featured on CNBC, Forbes, Nasdaq #TradeTalks, Institutional Investor Magazine, and Fox Business News.

More than 1,100 students have come through our flagship program since launch, and 83% secured internships or full-time roles in finance as a result. Our partners include some of the biggest names on Wall Street. That record is what you will be selling, and it is what gets your calls returned.

January 2027 target start date

This is a sales job at a mission driven nonprofit.

WSB sells corporate partnerships to financial services firms. Firms partner with us for access to our trained, diverse talent pipeline, to support our education and training programs, and for the brand value of the association. Because we are a 501(c)(3), that partnership is structured as an earned-revenue donation. Your buyer is typically a budget holder in the talent acquisition (HR), Inclusion & corporate social responsibility or Marketing department or lastly, a corporate foundation.

Today, the CEO is WSB's primary salesperson and fundraiser. Essentially all corporate revenue has been sourced by him personally, through a mix of cold outreach and introductions. That is currently the only source of corporate revenue at WSB. You are being hired to take that over, and if successful, to eventually own 100% of WSB's corporate partnership revenue.

You will build and own the corporate partnerships function: sourcing your own pipeline through cold outreach, working the warm leads we hand over at start, running the full cycle, and closing new partners. This is not a donor-cultivation or grant-writing role, and it is not a role where meetings arrive on your calendar. There is no SDR, no inbound flow, and no marketing engine feeding you leads. You prospect. If that is not the job you want, this is not the right fit.

Deals here run two to four months from first cold contact to signature, and you will carry a new-revenue target and activity standard from week one.

What you will own

• Build and maintain your own target list of financial services firms and named decision makers
• Run consistent cold outbound across phone, email, LinkedIn, and in-person: multi-touch sequences over weeks, not one-off sends
• Research firms, buyers, and program cycles to make outreach specific rather than generic
• Work conferences, industry events, and referral paths as supplementary channels, not as a substitute for outbound
• Hold a standard of 3 qualified first meetings per week, measured from week one and reviewed weekly with the CEO

New business

• Nurture WSB's existing warm leads and in-progress conversations and carry them to close. This is a one-time handoff of a finite list, not an ongoing flow of leads.
• Run discovery to understand what a firm is actually trying to solve: talent pipeline, community commitments, branding, or all three
• Build tailored partnership proposals and present them to budget holders
• Manage the cycle to close, including procurement, legal, and internal approval paths at financial services firms of every size

Renewals and portfolio growth

• Own the commercial relationship with every account, including current partners. You are accountable for whether that revenue stays and grows. Delivery, reporting, and day-to-day servicing run through our Client Relations Manager, which keeps your time and focus on selling.
• Drive renewals actively rather than assuming them, and find expansion inside existing partners. For partners already on the books, the Client Relations Manager runs the renewal conversation and you stay accountable for the outcome. For every partner you sign, you run it yourself.

Pipeline discipline and reporting

• Log every contact, touch, meeting, and next step in Salesforce; an accurate CRM is a condition of the role, not administrative overhead
• Bring an up-to-date pipeline to a standing weekly review with the CEO
• Flag stalled deals and lost deals honestly and early

Who we are looking for

• 3+ years in a quota-carrying B2B sales role, with documented attainment. You should be able to state your quota and your percentage of attainment for each of the last three years, and expect us to verify it in references.
• Demonstrated cold prospecting. Not "relationship management," not "partnership cultivation" — self-sourced pipeline you built from nothing. Be prepared to describe how you built a territory from a cold start.
• Full-cycle ownership. You have prospected, qualified, proposed, and closed your own deals without an SDR ahead of you or a sales engineer beside you.
• Comfort selling into large, slow institutions with multiple stakeholders and long approval chains.
• Based in the New York metro area, or close enough to be in Manhattan regularly on short notice.

Strong signals

• Sold Inclusion, ESG, talent-pipeline, or workforce development services into financial services
• Sold corporate giving or CSR platforms (Benevity, YourCause, Bonterra, or similar), or event, program, and league sponsorships into corporate marketing and CSR budgets
• Nonprofit corporate-partnerships experience with a verifiable dollar quota attached — we do not screen out nonprofit backgrounds, we screen out backgrounds without a number

What we are not looking for

• Grant writing or foundation relations as a primary background
• Donor stewardship without new-business responsibility\li>Account management where pipeline was generated by someone else

Compensation

Base Salary: $70,000 - $75,000 + Performance bonus. On-target earnings: $107,500, with no cap on what you can earn above that

Performance bonus is paid as flat-dollar awards at defined new-revenue milestones, uncapped above target. Professional fundraising ethics prohibit paying a percentage of contributions raised, so the structure is built to reward the same outcome while staying compliant.

Benefits and Resources

- 401(k) with employer matching

- Paid time off and a flexible schedule

- Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and prospecting and contact data tools

- Budget for travel, client entertainment, and industry conferences

- Marketing and collateral support — no lead generation, but you are not building the deck alone

Where this role goes

This is the only corporate partnerships seat at WSB. There is no queue above you and no one whose job you are waiting on. Build this function and you run it: the revenue, the partner book, and whoever we hire into it next. Title and base move with performance here, not with time served.

The CEO will sell and close alongside you on major accounts and opportunities while you build credibility, then step back as you take those accounts over.