Account Executive, Institutional Sales

Matter Labs

$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in enterprise B2B sales or strategic account management with six- or seven-figure deals closed.
  • Experience selling software, data, SaaS, or infrastructure to banks and regulated financial institutions.
  • Proven ability to generate pipeline through executive relationships and direct prospecting, with specific accounts mentioned.
  • Experience in leading multi-stakeholder buying processes involving various institutional teams.
  • Ability to engage in technical discussions around enterprise architecture, APIs, integration, and data privacy.
  • Experience in selling emerging or category-defining products during the refinement phase.

Responsibilities

  • Own US revenue goals, from initial engagement to deal closure.
  • Develop targeted account strategies to identify winning institutions and use cases.
  • Originate sales opportunities through networking and market insights.
  • Conduct thorough discovery to understand customer workflows and constraints.
  • Manage complex buying processes that involve multiple stakeholders across institutions.
  • Negotiate and close strategic agreements with operational discipline and legal support.
  • Provide structured feedback on customer needs and market dynamics to inform product strategy.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary.
  • Performance-based variable compensation.
  • Long-term token incentives paid in ZK tokens, with four-year vesting and a one-year cliff.
  • Culture of freedom and ownership with minimal bureaucracy.
Full Job Description
The role

You will build Prividium's business across the United States. The pipeline you create and the strategic agreements you close will set the pace at which the US institutional market opens for us. The role owns target-account strategy, pipeline creation, deal execution, and closed agreements with US banks, asset managers, market-infrastructure providers, and payment firms. It is a hands-on individual contributor role with no people-management responsibility.

What you'll do
  • Own US revenue. Deliver agreed pipeline, bookings, and revenue outcomes across the US institutional market, from first engagement through negotiation and close.
  • Set the account strategy. Build a clear view of where Prividium can win: which institutions, use cases, and stakeholders to pursue, and in what order.
  • Create pipeline. Originate opportunities through executive relationships, direct prospecting, and market knowledge. Inbound demand exists but will not carry the number.
  • Run deep discovery. Understand customer workflows, constraints, and economics across tokenised deposits, payments, settlement, collateral, funds, and asset issuance.
  • Navigate institutional buying. Coordinate long processes spanning business leadership, product, technology, architecture, security, risk, compliance, procurement, and legal.
  • Close strategic agreements. Build mutual action plans, keep deal discipline, and lead commercial and contractual negotiation with support from Legal and the executive team.
  • Feed the company. Bring structured customer, competitor, and regulatory evidence into product, positioning, and go-to-market decisions.

Over time, the role can grow into leadership of a US team as the market proves out.

What we look for

Each of these is a demonstrated capability, shown through work you have done:
  • 8+ years of enterprise B2B sales or strategic-account work, with closed six- or seven-figure agreements.
  • Selling software, data, SaaS, or infrastructure into banks, capital-markets firms, or other regulated financial institutions.
  • Originating pipeline through executive relationships and direct prospecting, with named examples of accounts you opened.
  • Leading multi-stakeholder buying processes across security, risk, compliance, procurement, legal, and executive approval.
  • Discussing enterprise architecture, APIs, integration, deployment models, and data privacy credibly with senior technology stakeholders.
  • Selling an emerging or category-defining product while the sales motion was still being refined.


Nice to have

Working knowledge of blockchain, tokenisation, or institutional digital assets. Proven institutional-sales performance matters more.

Work model & pay
  • Competitive base salary
  • Performance-based variable compensation and a long-term token incentive are additional. Both are paid in ZK tokens. New-hire token grants vest over four years with a one-year cliff.
  • Freedom & ownership culture: no time tracking, minimum bureaucracy-only results matter.

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