Associate Account Executive, Financial Services

14 Hours ago • All levels • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

AlphaSense is seeking an entrepreneurial and driven sales professional to join its UK team, focusing on the Financial Services market. The role involves selling an award-winning SaaS product that is gaining international traction. The ideal candidate will contribute significantly to the company's growth. Responsibilities include end-to-end sales processes, targeting hedge funds, asset managers, investment bankers, and sell-side research departments. This new client acquisition role requires prospecting, initiating discussions, building relationships, conducting demos, managing trials, and closing sales. Accurate forecasting and pipeline development are essential. The role also involves partnering with marketing for brand awareness and working with the Product Specialist team for client engagement, while also providing market feedback for product enhancement.
Must have:
  • Experience selling to financial markets (buy-side and sell-side)
  • Proven track record of achieving sales targets
  • Ability to prospect and build a pipeline
  • Energetic and creative with quick learning ability
  • Strong communication and rapport-building skills
  • Ability to distill complex issues
  • Expert communicator across all organizational levels
Good to have:
  • Experience in SaaS technology, financial information, or research organizations
  • Reputation for consistently delivering results and high work ethic
  • Ability to travel to clients monthly or quarterly

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 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 UK 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:

  • 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 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.

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.

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  • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
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