2d ago

Head of Pre-Sales

London
full-timelead

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll build and lead the pre-sales function for a fast-growing AI platform powering global debt markets. You'll own the technical sales motion for new data feed products, closing enterprise deals with banks and buy-side firms. This is a player-coach role where you personally close the first 10-20 opportunities and then scale the team and playbook across the US and EU.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Partner with Sales as technical owner on data feed product opportunities
  • Run technical discovery with CTOs, Heads of Data, and Engineering Leaders
  • Design and run technical validation including PoCs and integration timelines
  • Codify the technical validation playbook for scalability and repeatability
  • Hire, onboard, and coach the founding Product Specialist team

📋 Requirements

  • 10+ years in technical sales selling to financial institutions
  • 3+ years leading or building a pre-sales or solutions engineering team
  • Shipped revenue against an API or data product sold into banks or buy-side firms
  • Run vendor selection procurement processes end-to-end at Tier 1 banks

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience at a modern capital markets technology or financial data vendor

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks · AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
  2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
  3. 3Technical Interview· 60 min
  4. 4Executive Interview· 45 min
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