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