Account Executive, Financial Services

9 Minutes ago • All levels • $75,000 PA - $140,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Account Executive, Financial Services role at AlphaSense involves selling their market intelligence and search product to the Financial Services market. The responsibilities include researching opportunities, building prospect relationships, conducting demos, managing product trials, and closing sales for new business, or identifying growth opportunities within existing accounts, strengthening customer relationships, conducting strategic discussions and driving upsell and cross-sell opportunities. The role requires an entrepreneurial, driven, and accomplished sales professional, to contribute to the company’s growth and future success.
Must have:
  • Experience selling to financial markets, SaaS technology, or research organizations.
  • Proven track record of achieving sales targets and building a winning culture.
  • Ability to prospect and build a pipeline.
  • Energetic and creative with the ability to learn quickly.

Job Details

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 4,000 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!

Reporting to: Sales Director

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 the Financial Services market. This is an opportunity to join a high growth company, 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 in the company’s growth and future success.


Who You Are

  • Experience selling to financial market place (buy side and sell side), preferably in a SaaS technology, financial information and/or research organization
  • Proven track record of achieving 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 and together we can continue on our explosive growth
  • Able to prospect 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
  • 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
  • Able to travel to clients monthly or quarterly based on business needs


What You'll Do

  • We hire Account Executives for two distinct roles within our sales team:
    • New Business Account Executive: 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.
    • Existing Business Account Executive: This is a client expansion sales role, requiring you to identify growth opportunities within existing accounts, strengthen customer relationships, conduct strategic discussions, showcase additional value through demos and trials oversee product expansions, and drive upsell and cross-sell opportunities to maximize account potential.
  • Take responsibility for the end-end sales processes in your territory, targeting hedge funds, asset managers, investment bankers and sell side research departments.
  • Forecast accurately and develop 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 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 US-based 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

$75,000 - $140,000 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.

Recruiting Scams and Fraud

We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note:

  • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
  • All official communications will come from an @alpha-sense.com email address.
  • If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page.

If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.

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