AlphaSense
Account Executive, Existing Business - Financial Services at AlphaSense
$99,000–$155,000 / year
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- Company
- AlphaSense
- Location
- Remote, United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $99,000–$155,000 / year
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Role overview
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AlphaSense is hiring a full-time Account Executive to grow existing Financial Services customer relationships across the United States. The remote role reports to the Sales Director and focuses on expanding adoption among hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks, and sell-side research teams.
This is an existing-business sales role covering the full sales process, from identifying expansion opportunities and engaging new teams to demonstrations, product trials, and closing. The Account Executive will also build pipeline and forecasts, work with Marketing and Product Specialists, and share client and market feedback with internal teams.
The listed base salary range is $99,000–$155,000 per year. The company also describes a competitive benefits program, a commission plan with uncapped earning potential, and equity. Client travel may be required monthly or quarterly based on business needs.
Role at a glance: Remote U.S. Account Executive role focused on expanding AlphaSense’s existing Financial Services accounts, with a $99,000–$155,000 annual base salary range.
Responsibilities mentioned in the listing
- Manage the end-to-end sales process in the assigned territory, targeting hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks, and sell-side research departments.
- Expand existing client accounts by researching opportunities, initiating conversations, prospecting new teams, delivering demos, managing product trials, and closing sales.
- Build sufficient pipeline and forecast accurately to meet and exceed sales goals.
- Work with Marketing to broaden brand awareness.
- Coordinate with Product Specialists during trials to support client engagement.
- Share market and client product needs with Sales, Product Management, Content, and Product Marketing teams.
Qualifications stated in the listing
- Experience selling to financial markets, on the buy side or sell side; experience in SaaS technology, financial information, or research is preferred.
- A record of meeting sales targets.
- Ability to find and qualify opportunities, build pipeline, reach decision-makers across organizations, and develop internal advocacy.
- Curiosity, energy, creativity, and the ability to learn quickly.
- Consistent results and a strong record of initiative, work ethic, enthusiasm, and commitment.
- Ability to build rapport and maintain relationships, along with a positive, outgoing manner.
- Strong oral, written, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex subjects clearly and communicate across organizational levels.
- Ability to travel to clients monthly or quarterly, depending on business needs.
Full details from the source listing
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!
Reporting to: Sales Director
About The Role
We are looking for an entrepreneurial, driven, and accomplished Existing Business Sales professional to join our growing US team, focused on growing existing client relationships and selling to 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 internationally, and this person will be able to make a significant contribution to 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 farming role focused on upselling existing client relationships, requiring you to research opportunities, initiate discussions, prospect new teams, 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 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
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
We offer a competitive benefits program, a generous commission plan with uncapped earning potential as well as equity.
Base Compensation Range
$99,000—$155,000 USD
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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