New Sales Director, AlphaSense
New Business, Financial Services
$175-241k
+ A generous commission plan with uncapped earning potential as well as equity
Market intelligence and search platform
Open for applications
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$175-241k
+ A generous commission plan with uncapped earning potential as well as equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant sales experience with B2B SaaS solutions and a customer network in the Financial Services market (buy side and sell side)
- Extensive prior management experience, preferably in a New Business capacity
- Proven leader. You are someone who inspires confidence and motivates both internal teams and prospects to drive towards common goals
- High ownership - you are focused on the task at hand, recognizing opportunities for improvement while consistently driving towards targets and building a culture around performance. You hold your team accountable to KPIs and Revenue outcomes
- Proven track record of managing teams that exceed sales 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, while holding yourself and your team accountable
- Excellent at building C Level and Senior business relationships with clients. You build trust and credibility with key stakeholders, decision-makers and influencers and are focused on creating long term partnerships with the prospect
- Strong Consultative Selling skills. 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 cross functional leaders across Sales Development, Marketing, Sales Enablement, Product, and Pre-sales Specialist teams to deliver strong results against high growth targets
- An energetic and creative individual, possessing natural curiosity with the ability to learn quickly
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for an entrepreneurial, driven, and accomplished Sales Director, focused on managing a New Business sales team 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, and this person will be able to make a significant contribution to the company’s growth and future success
- You are the CEO of your business, managing a team tasked with bringing on new logos, which include firms in public and private markets across the buy and sell side. You will steer the team members towards a common goal, driving deals forward and delivering a revenue target
- Recruit, hire, and ramp new AEs while retaining top talent
- 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
- Partner closely with our marketing team to expand brand awareness
- Work closely with our Product Specialist team during trials to ensure a high win rate
- 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
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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