Fair Isaac Corporation

Solution Sales Executive - Financial Services

Fair Isaac Corporation$112K — $176K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience managing strategic relationships with senior executives at large financial institutions.
  • Expertise in enterprise solution sales and closing complex multi-million-dollar deals, particularly SaaS-based solutions.
  • Deep understanding of banking, credit risk, fraud prevention, and consumer lending, with knowledge in AI and decision management.
  • Ability to develop and execute joint business plans that align with FICO’s strategic priorities.
  • Good familiarity with technology related to Architecture, Integration, Cloud, and Analytics as they relate to the sales process.
  • A growth mindset focused on learning, educating others, and presenting effectively to clients and colleagues.
  • Demonstrated resilience and adaptability in overcoming challenges and maintaining performance under pressure.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with customers to identify their key initiatives in Consumer Lending and Retail Banking.
  • Establish relationships with senior client stakeholders to understand decision management problems.
  • Research and shape solution opportunities in partnerships with internal teams to position proposals.
  • Ensure client satisfaction with purchased solutions for long-term, profitable relationships.
  • Engage with various FICO teams to deliver cohesive, value-driven sales efforts.
  • Work with top financial institutions and sector leaders to expand the client base.
  • Manage sales targets with significant earnings potential for exceeding expectations.

Benefits

  • An inclusive culture reflecting core values like ownership and customer delight.
  • Opportunities for professional development and leveraging individual strengths.
  • Highly competitive compensation and recognition programs.
  • A supportive work environment promoting work/life balance and social interaction.
  • Employee resource groups and events to foster camaraderie.
Full Job Description

The Opportunity

FICO is seeking a dynamic and strategic sales professional to join our Global Platform Software Sales team. In this overlay sales role, you'll be at the forefront of evangelizing and selling the FICO® Platform—a cutting-edge decision intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to build, deploy, and scale smarter business decisions across the customer lifecycle. You'll work with a dedicated portfolio of enterprise accounts — both existing and new — to drive initial adoption ("Land") and expansion ("Expand") of the FICO Platform. Partnering with a variety of internal stakeholders, your role is critical in helping clients understand how the FICO Platform serves as the brain and central nervous system for designing, operationalizing, and optimizing customer journeys at scale.

What You’ll Contribute

  • Work with existing and potential customers to understand their key initiatives in Consumer Lending and Retail Banking across Marketing, Originations, Customer Management, Personalization, Collections, and Fraud. Share expertise and thought leadership in Decisioning, Analytics, & Optimization within Financial Services to help our clients leapfrog the competition, leveraging FICO’s cutting-edge Platform. 

  • Build relationships with senior client stakeholders in Business and Technology to gain insight into their most urgent decision management-related problems while articulating FICO’s platform capabilities. 

  • Research and shape potential solution opportunities through collaborative engagement with internal Key Account Managers, Pre-Sales Domain Experts and Pre-Sales Architects to formulate and effectively position solution proposals. 

  • Ensure clients are delighted with solutions purchased to create win-win relationships that are long-term, expanding, and profitable. 

  • Collaborate with internal FICO teams, including Global Solution Architecture, Product Development, Finance, and Professional Services, to shape a cohesive sales effort that educates our customers on the tremendous business value the FICO Platform delivers. 

  • Work with the largest and most advanced Financial Institutions as well as a core set of leaders in other sectors. 

  • Manage sales to quarterly and annual targets, with significant earnings upside when targets are exceeded. 

What We’re Seeking

  • Proven Senior-Level Experience: Demonstrated success in building and managing strategic relationships with senior executives, particularly within large financial institutions. 

  • Enterprise Solution Sales Expertise: A track record of structuring and closing complex, multi-million-dollar deals, including SaaS-based solutions that expand existing offerings or integrate into larger solution bundles. 

  • Industry Knowledge: Deep familiarity with banking, credit risk, fraud prevention, account management, or consumer lending. Experience in applying technologies such as machine learning, AI, decision management, and optimization is highly desirable. 

  • Strategic Vision and Execution: Ability to craft and execute joint business plans that align with client objectives and FICO’s strategic priorities. 

  • Technology Knowledge: Good level of familiarity and ability to speak about Architecture, Integration, Cloud, AI, Decisioning, Automation, Analytics and Optimization to key stakeholders.

  • Growth Mindset: A Passion to learn and educate customers and FICO colleagues through presentations and conversations. Strong soft skills, a genuine interest in people, and a desire to help them be wildly successful. 

  • Resiliency: Able to maintain focus and effectiveness under pressure, adaptable to change, and recover quickly from setbacks. 

  • Collaborative Leadership: A team-oriented mindset that values collaboration and leverages the collective strengths of colleagues to deliver exceptional results. 

  • Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 50% to maintain a close partnership with the client and foster meaningful, face-to-face interactions. 

  • Educational Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent commercial experience. 

  • Highly Desired: Proven Sales and/or Senior Pre-sales experience for 3 or more years selling an enterprise software solution to the financial services/banking industry.

Our Offer to You

  • An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

  • The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

  • Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.

  • An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

  • The targeted base pay range for this role is: $112,000 to $176,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

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About Fair Isaac Corporation

Fair Isaac Corporation, also known as FICO, is a data analytics company that provides credit scoring services and decision management solutions to businesses in various industries. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. FICO's products and services are used by banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, retailers, and other businesses to make data-driven decisions about credit risk, fraud detection, customer acquisition, and more. The company is committed to using advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to help businesses make better decisions and improve their bottom line.
Learn more about Fair Isaac Corporation
Size
3,460 employees
Market Cap
$15.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$267.9 million
Founded
1956
5 Year Trend
+8.1%
Revenue
$1.3 billion
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