Account Executive, Existing Business - Financial Services

AlphaSense; New York (NY); On-site; CAD 121,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits program

Equity

Uncapped commission

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking an entrepreneurial New Business Sales professional to join our growing US team, targeting new logos in the Financial Services market. You will drive end-to-end sales, from prospecting to close, across hedge funds, asset managers, and research departments.

Superior communication, demo skills, and a proven ability to exceed six-figure revenue targets are required. Willingness to travel is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant sales experience in B2B SaaS within Financial Services (buy/sell side).
• Proven track record of exceeding sales targets and building enterprise pipelines.
• Ability to conduct value-based product demonstrations and articulate ROI.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sales process for new logos in the Financial Services sector.
• Research opportunities, initiate discussions, build relationships, demo, trial, and close deals.
• Forecast & develop pipeline to meet/exceed targets; collaborate with marketing and product teams.

Skills

B2B SaaS sales

Financial services

Pipeline management

Demos & presentations

Communication

Travel willingness

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

About AlphaSense

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

About AlphaSense

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About The Role

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, driven, and accomplished New Business Sales professional to join our growing US team, focused on selling to new logos across the Financial Services market. This is an opportunity to join a high-growth company and sell an award-winning product that is rapidly getting adopted across the market internationally, and this person will be able to make a significant contribution to the company’s growth and future success.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of relevant sales experience with a B2B SaaS solution and a customer network in the Financial Services market (buy side and sell side)
• Proven track record of exceeding sales targets; we are building a team of top sales performers and a great winning culture, so looking for people who share the same experience and values so that together we can continue on our explosive growth
• Able to cold call and prospect across a set territory and build a pipeline, from identifying the right opportunities to gaining access to the right levels of and across an organization; influencing and building advocacy to create the conditions for enterprise sales
• Conduct product demonstrations in a value-based sales environment
• An energetic and creative individual, possessing natural curiosity with the ability to learn quickly
• Reputation for consistently delivering results and setting the example for work ethic, initiative, enthusiasm, and commitment
• Strong ability to develop rapport with new people, and to maintain relationships, combined with a positive, outgoing personality
• Outstanding oral, written, and presentation skills
• Able to distill and explain complex issues in simple terms
• An expert communicator with the ability to comfortably communicate across all levels of an organization
• Experience hitting six-figure or seven-figure revenue targets on an annual basis
• Able to travel for prospect meetings, based on business needs

What You'll Do

• Take responsibility for the end-end sales processes in your territory, targeting hedge funds, asset managers, investment bankers, and sell-side research departments.
• This is a new client acquisition sales role, requiring you to research opportunities, initiate discussions, build prospect relationships, conduct demos, manage product trials, and close sales.
• Forecast accurately and develop the necessary pipeline to meet and exceed goals
• Partner closely with our marketing team to expand brand awareness
• Work closely with our Product Specialist team during trials to ensure user adoption and engagement
• Gather and pass on information on market and client product needs to sales, product management, content, and product marketing to help us continually enhance our products

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

• We offer a competitive benefits program, a generous commission plan with uncapped earning potential as well as equity.

Base Compensation Range

$121,000—$213,000 CAD

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.