Vertical Account Executive — Financial Services

Vertical Account Executive — Financial Services at GK Media Group | Lens ABOUT THE VERTICAL Financial services pays a 2.5× multiplier — the highest in our pricing grid —because the cost of a credibility miss in a research note, a trading-desk feed, or a compliance archive is measurable in real dollars at the millisecond. Target accounts: Sell-side equity and credit research desks at bulge-bracket and top boutique banks Buy-side fundamental and macro shops (long-only, hedge funds, family offices) Quant research desks integrating news + event signals Wealth-management research at large RIAs and private banks Compliance and surveillance teams that ingest external sources News-and-data terminals that re-license credibility signals (Bloomberg-adjacent surfaces; subject to existing agreements) ACV range: $60K small / $187K enterprise. Year-one target: 4 institutional pilots, 2 paid contracts. WHAT YOU'LL OWN The financial-services pipeline. You bring head-of-research and chief-data-officer relationships at banks, asset managers, and hedge funds. You translate Lens's reproducibility, latency SLOs, and auditable trace into terms that satisfy a head of compliance. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 7+ years selling financial information products (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset, S&P Cap IQ, Sentieo, AlphaSense, or comparable) A current Rolodex of head-of-research and chief-data-officer level relationships Experience with seven-figure annual contracts and procurement cycles measured in quarters Fluency in latency, throughput, SLO, and reproducibility vocabulary A view on how Lens fits next to (or replaces) existing news-credibility licenses on the desk The 30/60/90-day pipeline plan that you can sketch in the second interview without notes