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