Account Executive, Financial Services
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at AlphaSense. London.
Pay not stated
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Win new financial-services accounts through prospecting, outreach, product demonstrations, trials, negotiation, and closing
- Build a reliable territory pipeline and provide consistent, accurate forecasts
- Target hedge funds, asset managers, banks, and research teams across London and EMEA
- Work with marketing and product specialists on regional demand and strong trial experiences
- Pass customer and market feedback to product, content, and marketing teams
What you bring
- A record of selling SaaS technology to hedge funds, asset managers, and investment banks in the U.K., Ireland, and Europe
- Consistent success beating new-business goals in a fast-moving B2B sales setting
- Experience managing prospecting through closing, including cold outreach, discovery, demos, trials, and negotiation
- Strong presentation and storytelling ability, with skill in explaining complex ideas clearly
Who this fits
This role suits a self-directed new-business seller who builds relationships across complicated financial-services organizations and owns the full sales cycle. You should be comfortable traveling within the region when needed. The position is based in London and focuses on net-new acquisition across financial services.
From the employer
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’re seeking an entrepreneurial, high-performing New Business Sales Executive to fuel our continued expansion across London & EMEA, focused on net-new logo acquisition within Financial Services (BuySide & Sell Side Institutional Investment).This is a rare opportunity to join a hyper-growth company where you will sell a category-defining GenAI platform that is transforming how the investment world accesses and interprets information. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our regional growth trajectory and win big along the way! Who You Are
- Proven success selling SaaS technology to Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, and Investment Banks across the U.K., Ireland, and Europe
- Strong track record of exceeding new-business targets in a high-volume, high-velocity B2Bsales environment
- Expert prospector with the discipline to drive the full sales cycle—from cold outreach and discovery to demo, trial, and close
- Natural relationship-builder who influences stakeholders across complex organizations
- Energetic, curious, and resourceful, with a reputation for ownership, initiative, and consistent overachievement
- Exceptional communicator with outstanding presentation and storytelling skills
- Ability to simplify complex concepts and articulate a compelling value narrative
- Comfortable traveling within the region as needed
- Own the end-to-end new-business sales process in your territory, targeting hedge funds, asset managers, banks, and research teams
- Drive net-new logo acquisition through rigorous prospecting, outreach, demos, trials, and negotiation
- Develop and maintain a robust pipeline, forecasting with accuracy and consistency
- Collaborate with Marketing to amplify AlphaSense's brand presence and regional market penetration
- Partner with Product Specialists to deliver high-impact trials and exceptional client experiences
- Surface client and market insights to Product, Content, and Marketing to enrich platform innovation and GTM strategy
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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