Sales Director - AI X Alt Data

**Founding Sales Director AI x Alternative Data Capital Markets** **New York City / US Remote Early-Stage AI Startup**

What if you could join an AI business before the world knows its name (and trust me, it won’t be long before they do), help define an entirely new category of financial intelligence and build its commercial engine from the ground up?

We’re partnering exclusively with an ambitious, well-funded AI-native intelligence company founded by a former quant with a background spanning institutional finance, machine learning and AI , that’s building something genuinely different for the world’s most sophisticated investors.

After years of proprietary technology development, the business has entered the market, secured its first institutional customers and is gaining traction with major financial institutions.

Now, they’re looking for a Founding Sales Director to spearhead their commercial expansion, and help build the GTM engine that takes the business from early traction to significant scale.

This isn’t a role for someone looking to inherit a territory, manage a team or step into an established sales machine.

It’s for someone who wants to take over the world.

Someone with a true 0-to-1 mentality , who thrives on building something from nothing, isn’t afraid to take risks and wants to win new business, create the playbook and build the machine themselves.

This is an opportunity for someone to help build something extraordinary.

The Business:

Imagine giving hedge funds, asset managers and quantitative investment teams a completely new way to discover, analyse and act on global information.

That’s the ambition.

Founded by an ex-Quant and Computer Scientist with deep expertise across financial markets, machine learning and AI - this is a business built by someone who understands exactly how sophisticated investors think, operate and use data to gain an edge.

After years of intensive R&D, They’ve developed a powerful AI-native intelligence platform that transforms vast amounts of fragmented global information into structured, actionable investment intelligence.

This isn’t another alternative dataset. It’s an entirely new intelligence infrastructure combining AI, proprietary search and advanced data technology to help investors spot emerging trends, uncover hidden signals and identify opportunities ahead of the market.

At its core, the proposition brings together:

• AI-powered information discovery: Proprietary web-scale search technology enabling investors to discover, interrogate and extract intelligence from vast amounts of global information.
• Global event intelligence: Structured, point-in-time data tracking corporate developments, economic activity, geopolitical events and emerging risks across global markets.
• Knowledge graph technology: Connecting companies, people, products and real-world developments to uncover relationships and generate new insights for investment research.
• Institutional-grade data infrastructure: Delivering structured, machine-readable intelligence directly into investors’ existing research, quantitative and data workflows through APIs and cloud-based delivery.

The potential applications are vast, spanning quantitative and systematic investing, macro research, event-driven trading strategies, risk modelling, AI-driven investment workflows and beyond.

The bigger vision? Redefine how the world’s most sophisticated investors discover information, identify opportunities and gain an edge.

The Opportunity:

This is a genuine 0-to-1 GTM opportunity, and is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role.

You’ll join at a pivotal stage in the company’s commercial journey, working directly with the Founder and commercial leadership to build its presence across the US institutional investor market.

You’ll have a rare combination of full ownership of new-business revenue and genuine influence over how the business goes to market .

There is no established sales playbook to inherit, no mature territory to take over and no team to manage.

You’ll be responsible for winning customers while helping build the commercial foundations that allow the business to scale.

Your remit will include:

• Own net-new revenue: Identify, engage and close hedge funds, asset managers, quantitative investment firms and other sophisticated financial institutions.
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