Senior Associate Account Executive, New Business - Financial Services

AlphaSense is hiring a Senior Associate Account Executive to acquire new Financial Services clients in the United States. The role owns the end-to-end sales process, from prospecting and product demonstrations through trials, forecasting, and closing, while partnering with internal teams to support adoption and improve products.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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 user adoption and 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

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant sales experience with a B2B SaaS solution and a customer network in the Financial Services market (buy side and sell side)
• Proven track record of exceeding sales targets
• Able to cold call and prospect across a set territory 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 sales
• Conduct product demonstrations in a value-based sales environment
• An 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
• Experience hitting six-figure or seven-figure revenue targets on an annual basis