Account Executive, AlphaSense
Financial Services
$75-140k
+ Equity + Commission
Market intelligence and search platform
Open for applications
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$75-140k
+ Equity + Commission
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
- 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 the job involves
- Reporting to: Sales Director
- 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
- 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
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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