Strategic Account Executive, FS Corporates

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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 4,000 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 Team
The Financial Services Strategic Sales team focuses on the global growth & expansion of the Largest 130 Financial Services clients. Working collaboratively within a Global Pod of other sales professionals, the team is focused on delivering best-in-class sales execution & customer experience through building executive-level relationships and constructing business cases to support Enterprise deployments of AlphaSense.

About The Role
We are looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial, driven and accomplished sales professional to join our growing Strategic Sales team to help spearhead global growth across the U.S. & Canada. The Strategic Account Executive, FS Corporates position is tasked with accelerating growth at some of Alpha-Sense’s largest growth accounts globally through a value-based, Enterprise sales motion. Working in partnership with the Global Strategic Account Director, this role will help to co-create the strategy for expansion across Corporate personas (Investor Relations, Competitive Intelligence, and Corporate Development) at our Strategic Financial Services clients.
Success in this role requires strong collaboration and resource management to build relationships at the executive level while executing a bottom-up strategy. This is a chance to join a high-growth company and sell an award-winning product gaining rapid adoption across industries. The person in this role will play a critical part in driving the company’s continued growth and long-term success.

Who You Are

• 7+ years of relevant sales experience with a B2B SaaS solution and a customer network selling to our Corporate Personas: Investor Relations, Competitive Intelligence, and Corporate Development.
• Proven track record of exceeding 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.
• 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 client.
• 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 the global sales team to build and execute a strategic client growth plan for your designated book of accounts. You own the sales plan for the Corporate personas in partnership with the Strategic Account Director and the Account Executives in the other global regions, driving deals forward and delivering revenue against target.
• Execute a long-term account strategy supported by short- and mid-term action plans, combining a transactional sales approach with an enterprise-level mindset. Skilled in cold calling and prospecting across a client base to build a strong pipeline—identifying the right opportunities, accessing key stakeholders across the organization, and building influence and advocacy to enable complex enterprise sales.
• Partner with our Global Customer Success, Sales Development and Product Specialist teams to deliver strong growth across a defined client base.
• Conduct product demonstrations in a value-based sales environment.
• 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.
• Experience hitting six-figure or seven-figure revenue targets on an annual basis.
• Able to travel to clients on a regular basis.

What You’ll Do

• Take responsibility for the strategy and end-to-end sales processes to expand AlphaSense’s most strategic Financial Services accounts across Investor Relations, Competitive Intelligence, Corporate Development and other Corporate personas globally.
• Become an expert on corporate customer needs and use cases, market dynamics, company capabilities, competitive landscape, and product differentiation.
• This role is focused on upselling existing client relationships, requiring you to research opportunities, initiate discussions, prospect new teams, conduct demos, manage product trials, and close sales.
• Develop strong internal relationships, garnering buy in from those you partner with and marshaling resources to deliver on revenue outcomes.
• Partner with our SDR team to create prospecting plans and drive pipeline and work closely with our Product Specialist team during trials to ensure client engagement.
• Work closely with Account Management to ensure customer health throughout the contract term, as well as closing sourced upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
• 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.
• Forecast accurately and develop the necessary pipeline to meet/exceed quota.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based 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.

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