Strategic Account Executive
This is a remote position; only candidates who reside in the Central (CT) or Eastern (ET) time zones at the time of application will be considered.
About the role
We’re hiring a Strategic Account Executive to own a named list of large target wealth management enterprises. This role is built for an elite enterprise seller who can win complex new logos, retain and renew strategic customers, expand high-value accounts, and navigate senior-level stakeholder groups in highly competitive environments. This is a high-stakes remote role with 35% travel requiring executive presence, strategic thinking, and the ability to operate across long sales cycles, renewal motions, expansion opportunities, and multiple decision-makers. The ideal candidate is a trusted advisor who can create urgency, build consensus, protect key customer relationships, and orchestrate internal resources to close transformational deals.
Responsibilities
- Own the full sales cycle for strategic net-new logo opportunities from qualification through close, while also managing renewals and expansion across named strategic accounts.
- Manage, retain, renew, and expand a named list of large wealth management enterprise target accounts.
- Conduct in-person executive meetings, onsite discovery sessions, and conference travel about 35% of the time.
- Build multi-threaded relationships across executive, operational, technology, and procurement stakeholders.
- Lead complex discovery, product validation, business case development, proposal execution, and negotiation.
- Drive whitespace expansion within strategic customer accounts through upsell, cross-sell, and executive-level account development.
- Partner with Solutions Consultants, SDRs, Customer Success, Delivery, Legal, and Product to move large deals forward.
- Maintain rigorous account planning, executive mapping, and Salesforce forecast discipline.
- Represent the company as a trusted market presence at events, conferences, and strategic customer meetings.
Requirements
- 7+ years of B2B SaaS enterprise sales experience with a track record of overachievement.
- Proven success selling into large financial services, wealth management, or similarly complex enterprise environments.
- Executive presence and the ability to engage senior leaders with confidence and credibility.
- Strong strategic thinking and the ability to build account plans that open new white space.
- Excellent multi-stakeholder selling, renewal management, negotiation, and deal orchestration skills.
- Comfort working long sales cycles with many moving parts and high visibility.
- Strong command of structured sales methodology and forecasting discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience selling wealthtech, fintech, regtech, or enterprise SaaS solutions.
- Experience with regional wealth management firms, RIAs, broker-dealers, or advisor platforms.
- Familiarity with MEDDPIC, Challenger, or another structured enterprise sales methodology.
- Existing network in wealth management or financial services technology.
- Demonstrated success winning competitive displacements.
How Success is Measured
- Annual new-logo, renewal, and expansion ARR attainment.
- Pipeline coverage across named strategic accounts.
- Win rate on enterprise opportunities and target accounts.
- Forecast accuracy and stage progression discipline.
- Progress in executive relationship depth, renewal retention, whitespace creation, and strategic account penetration.
Schedule
This role requires approximately 35% travel.