San Francisco, CA · On-site (5 days/week) · Full-time Compensation: $150,000–$200,000 base | $300,000 OTE + competitive equity
About the Company
Our client builds AI compliance analysts that automate AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring across banks and fintechs. The product helps institutions eliminate up to 90% of manual compliance work, reduce costs 4x, and dramatically accelerate onboarding. It's trusted by financial institutions across the US, Canada, Europe, and LatAm — with seven-figure bank contracts already closed and an undefeated competitive win rate in live deals.
Founded 2024 · Seed · Industry: FinTech / Compliance / AI
The Role
This is the first true sales hire. Founder-led sales has proven product-market fit — now it's time to scale. It's a builder role with full ownership over enterprise pipeline creation, closing, sales-process design, compensation structures, and future team building. You'll work in direct partnership with the CEO to architect the revenue engine from zero.
What you'll be doing
- Own the full enterprise sales cycle from cold outreach through close
- Prospect and close banks, fintechs, and MSBs
- Run discovery, demos, negotiations, procurement, and contracting
- Build pipeline from zero through outbound prospecting
- Design the sales playbook and GTM process
- Help hire future AEs and shape compensation structures
- Define pricing, packaging, territories, and competitive positioning
- Act as the voice of the customer to product and GTM teams
- Build a repeatable enterprise revenue engine
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of enterprise sales experience
- Proven $100K–$1M+ contract closing experience
- A financial services, fintech, or bank sales background
- A full-cycle hunter mentality
- Comfortable with procurement, legal, and enterprise buying committees
- Strong in-person executive presence and cold-outbound confidence
- A builder mindset — this is not a playbook-execution role
- SF onsite or willing to relocate (paid relocation + temporary housing provided)
Nice to Haves
- A compliance-tech AE background, or KYC/AML/KYB/financial-crime infrastructure sales
- Existing bank or compliance-consultancy relationships (e.g., AML RightSource, Guidehouse, Protiviti, or similar)
- Series A/B startup sales-buildout experience
- A proven self-sourced enterprise pipeline
- A Ramp/Brex-caliber commercial profile
- Tool fluency: Apollo, Outreach, Salesforce, Gong, Clay
Why Join
- A genuine founding sales seat: the first true sales hire, scaling from founder-led sales that has already proven PMF
- Builder ownership: architect the revenue engine from zero — pipeline, playbook, pricing, and the future AE team
- Comp and backing: $300K OTE plus competitive equity, at a seed-stage company with seven-figure bank contracts already closed
- Benefits: paid relocation and one month of temporary housing, comprehensive healthcare, unlimited PTO, an annual offsite, and office meals
Details
- Location — San Francisco, CA (paid relocation + one month temporary housing provided)
- Work policy — On-site, 5 days/week
- Compensation — $150,000–$200,000 base | $300,000 OTE + competitive equity
- Visa sponsorship — Not available
- Employment type — Full-time