Strategic Account Director - Financial Services

London, England, United Kingdom. Posted a month ago

The role

You will drive full-cycle sales of agentic AI products into the financial services vertical. You will expand existing accounts and open new tier-1 logos using your established network.

What you will do

Win new business through the full cycle from first conversation to signed multiyear agreement
Self-generate 60% or more of pipeline through network and targeted outreach
Refine sales methodology, positioning, and use-case narrative for the vertical
Expand accounts from single use cases to enterprise-wide deployment
Build relationships with compliance, legal, risk, procurement, and IT leadership
Partner with technical teams to get agentic workflows into production
Provide market intelligence to Product and Engineering teams
Maintain a predictable pipeline using structured sales methodology

Required qualifications

15+ years immersed specifically within the financial services blue-chip segment
C-Suite level context with a focus on banking compliance, risk and technology
Real, live and verifiable network already established inside the financial services sector
History of closing multimillion-dollar, multiyear agreements
Executive presence to explain data provenance and AI reasoning to non-technical stakeholders
Ability to navigate complex procurement, legal review, and multithreaded account politics
Fluency in a structured methodology such as MEDDPICC, Challenger, or Miller Heimann
Experience building a territory, book, vertical, or motion from scratch
Ability to explain what agentic AI can and cannot do
Up to 25% travel

Benefits

Uncapped commission structure with market leading accelerators for expansion revenue
No bonus caps
UK: fully paid private medical, dental, vision, salary sacrifice benefits
UK: 8% pension
UK: 25 days plus bank holidays
Company-wide winter shutdown
Market leading leave policies

About the company

Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.