AlphaSense

Senior Director, Strategic Client Sales, Financial Services

AlphaSense$257K — $353K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in B2B SaaS sales, specifically in Financial Services
  • Extensive management experience with Global Strategic Client teams
  • Proven leadership skills that inspire teams and clients
  • Track record of exceeding sales targets with a high-performing team
  • Excellent relationship-building skills with C Level executives
  • Strong consultative selling abilities and industry knowledge
  • Ability to manage a global team across multiple regions

Responsibilities

  • Lead a global team focused on aggressive growth targets for strategic clients
  • Build strong internal relationships to drive revenue outcomes
  • Forecast sales accurately and develop a robust pipeline
  • Collaborate with marketing to enhance brand visibility
  • Work alongside product specialists to ensure client satisfaction during trials
  • Collect and share market insights to improve product offerings

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits program
  • Generous commission plan with uncapped earning potential
  • Equity participation opportunities
Full Job Description
Location: New York, Boston or Chicago

About The RoleWe are looking for an entrepreneurial, driven, and accomplished Sr. Director, focused on managing a global sales team devoted to some of 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
  • 15+ years of relevant sales experience with a B2B SaaS solutions and a customer network in the Financial Services market (buy side and sell side).
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, hard work, and respect for each other as you work with your team to close enterprise sales across our largest global clients.
  • Extensive prior management experience, preferably for a Global Strategic Client team.
  • Proven leader. You are someone who inspires confidence and motivates both internal teams and clients to drive towards common goals.
  • Proven track record of managing teams that exceed 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, while holding yourself and your team accountable.
  • 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.
  • Manage a global team. You will steer the global team members across NAMER, EMEA and APAC towards a common goal, driving deals forward and delivering on a revenue target.
  • Oversee a long term account strategy, with short and medium term execution plans, layering a transactional sales motion with an enterprise mindset and focus.
  • Partner with cross functional leaders across Global Customer Success, Sales Development and Product Specialist teams to deliver strong growth across a defined client base.
  • 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.
  • Able to travel globally, meeting with clients and your team on a regular basis.

What You'll Do
  • You are the CEO of your business, managing a global team tasked with aggressive growth targets across a book of Global Strategic clients, which include firms in public and private markets across the buy and sell side. You will steer the global team members across NAMER, EMEA and APAC towards a common goal, driving deals forward and delivering on a shared revenue target.
  • 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.
  • 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

$257,000-$353,000 USD

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a software company that provides an AI-powered search engine for business professionals. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York City. AlphaSense's search engine allows users to search across a wide range of sources, including company filings, news articles, and research reports. The company's platform is used by a variety of industries, including finance, consulting, and legal. AlphaSense has received numerous awards for its innovative technology and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
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Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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