Vertical Account Executive Financial Services

## About the Role The financial services book at GK Media Group LLC covers sell-side research desks at the bulge bracket, the AI-research arms inside the big asset managers, the quant data teams at the major hedge funds, Bloomberg Intelligence and the equivalent inside Refinitiv, and the compliance-flavored buying centers that have started carving budget for source-integrity tooling for the first time. Financial services is a multi-AE vertical from the start. You'd take a band of the firms, say the asset managers or the bulge bracket, and the other AEs would take the rest. Day one you'd carry a slice of the two research-desk conversations and a thread on the asset-manager pilot. Week one you'd be in calls with the Director of Research seats at the next ten firms, syncing coverage with the other AEs. Month one you'd know which firms are buying through research budgets and which are buying through compliance, and your forecast would reflect both. ## Responsibilities - Carry a slice of the two research-desk conversations and a thread on the asset-manager pilot on day one. - Be in calls with the Director of Research seats at the next ten firms within week one, syncing coverage with the other AEs. - Determine by month one which firms are buying through research budgets and which are buying through compliance, ensuring your forecast reflects both. ## Requirements - You've sold SaaS to financial information desks. - Experience with AlphaSense, Sentieo, Symphony, Levitate, or any Bloomberg-adjacent platform that lives inside the workflow of a research analyst. - Your last seat was not generic enterprise SaaS into the back office. - You've covered research, prime brokerage, or data-product desks before. - You know how a Director of Research buys differently from a Head of Data, because the IQS lives in a different budget line for each one. - You understand that the demo you give a quant is not the demo you give a research lead. - You understand the procurement quirks at the big banks, recognizing that the cycle is faster than it looks if you understand them and slower than it looks if you don't. - Experience carrying Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FactSet, or the newer alt-data shops. ## Nice to have - Knowledge of the IQS product to the point of knowing it cold within a week. - Ability to be in the room with research directors within the month. ## What we offer - Early stage, small company environment. - Reporting directly to the founder. - Opportunity to be the person who built the source-integrity category inside financial services. ## About the Company Source quality has become alpha. Every research desk at a bulge-bracket bank, every quant data team at the big asset managers, and every research arm at the major hedge funds is in the middle of rebuilding trust in their inputs, because AI-generated material has started contaminating the pipeline and the regulators have started asking about it. The company licenses the IQS to those desks because it pins every input to its source and gives compliance a defensible audit trail without slowing the analysts down. Two bulge bracket research desks and a top-five asset manager are already in early conversation. ## Compensation $60K base + commission and equity to be negotiated. ## Application Instructions Apply with a short note about which research director you'd open with and what objection she's most likely to throw first.