Senior Account Executive, Strategic Growth - Financial Services
AlphaSense
$158,000 - $217,000 / year
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Description
About AlphaSense:
AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com. Come join us.
About The Role
We are looking for an entrepreneurial, driven, and accomplished Strategic Account Executive, focused on assisting execute an enterprise growth strategy in partnership with a global sales team devoted to our largest global client relationships in 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
- 7+ 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 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.
- 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 help execute a strategic client growth plan with the global sales team for your book of accounts across a shared revenue target.
- Able to cold call and prospect across a client base while building a pipeline.
- 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.
- Quick learner and able to implement feedback effectively.
- An energetic and creative individual, possessing natural curiosity with the ability to learn quickly. Must have a strong work ethic.
- 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
- Partner with the global sales team to help execute a strategic client growth plan with the global sales team for your book of accounts across a shared revenue target.
- 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.
- Coordinate with your team to forecast accurately and develop the necessary pipeline to meet and exceed goals.
- 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.
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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Benefits
- stock options
About this role
AlphaSense is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive growth within its Financial Services client base, working from the Chicago office. You'll focus primarily on expanding relationships with existing enterprise customers through upselling and cross-selling, while also prospecting new teams within your assigned accounts. The role demands someone with at least seven years of B2B SaaS sales experience and a genuine network in financial services—both buy-side and sell-side firms. You'll need a proven record of hitting six or seven-figure annual revenue targets and the ability to cold call, conduct product demos, and manage the full sales cycle from discovery through close.
Success in this position requires strong partnership skills across internal teams—sales, customer success, product specialists, and marketing—to execute coordinated growth plans against shared revenue targets. You'll research opportunities, initiate conversations, run trials, and gather market intelligence to feed back into product development. Travel to client sites is regular. The role suits someone with natural curiosity, active listening skills, and the ability to translate complex solutions into clear value propositions for different stakeholders. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, quick to learn, and driven by results in a high-performing sales culture.
The base salary ranges from $158,000 to $217,000, with uncapped commission potential and equity. This is a full-time, in-office role in Chicago.
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