Senior Account Executive, Strategic Growth - Financial Services

Alphasense; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 158,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Uncapped commissions

Benefits program

Job summary

AlphaSense, headquartered in New York City, seeks a Strategic Account Executive in Chicago to advance enterprise growth with the Financial Services book of clients. You will own the growth plan, upsell opportunities, conduct product demos, and collaborate with global teams to maximize revenue across a defined client base.

You will travel to client sites, maintain relationships, and contribute to a high-growth culture with a strong commission and equity component.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant sales experience with a B2B SaaS solution in Financial Services.
• Track record of exceeding targets and building trusted client relationships.
• Able to conduct product demonstrations and present value propositions clearly.

Responsibilities

• Upsell existing client relationships and develop opportunities across accounts.
• Run product demos, manage trials, and close deals with a defined revenue target.
• Forecast pipeline with the team and coordinate with product and CS for success.
• Travel to client sites regularly to support growth and relationships.

Skills

Sales experience

B2B SaaS

Financial Services

Pipeline development

Proven targets attainment

Client presentation

Demos and product tours

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.

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 Strategic Account Executive, focused on assisting execute an enterprise growth strategy in partnership with a global sales team devoted to our largest global client relationships in 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

• 7+ 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 targets; we maintain a team of top sales performers and a great winning culture. Reputation for consistently delivering results and setting the example for work ethic, initiative, enthusiasm, and commitment.
• Ability to listen actively, ask insightful questions, and uncover the real needs of the client, becoming a trusted partner. Use your knowledge of the industry, competitive environment, and client experiences to identify trends and stay ahead of customer needs.
• Partner with the global sales team to help execute a strategic client growth plan with the global sales team for your book of accounts across a shared revenue target.
• Able to cold call and prospect across a client base while building a pipeline.
• Partner with our Global Customer Success, Sales Development and Product Specialist teams to deliver strong growth across a defined client base.
• Conduct product demonstrations in a value-based sales environment.
• Quick learner and able to implement feedback effectively.
• An energetic and creative individual, possessing natural curiosity with the ability to learn quickly. Must have a strong work ethic.
• Strong ability to develop rapport with new people, and to maintain relationships, combined with a positive, outgoing personality.
• Outstanding communicator, whether in presentations or casual conversations, and can convey value propositions clearly across all levels of an organization.
• Able to distill and explain complex issues in simple terms.
• Experience hitting six-figure or seven-figure revenue targets on an annual basis.
• Able to travel to clients on a regular basis.

What You'll Do

• Partner with the global sales team to help execute a strategic client growth plan with the global sales team for your book of accounts across a shared revenue target.
• This role is focused on upselling existing client relationships, requiring you to research opportunities, initiate discussions, prospect new teams, conduct demos, manage product trials, and close sales.
• Develop strong internal relationships, garnering buy in from those you partner with and marshaling resources to deliver on revenue outcomes.
• Coordinate with your team to forecast accurately and develop the necessary pipeline to meet and exceed goals.
• Work closely with our Product Specialist team during trials to ensure client 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

$158,000 - $217,000 USD

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.