Senior Account Executive Germany (f/m/d)

Senior Account Executive Germany (f/m/d) At Upvest, we are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and financial institutions can save resources and fully focus on their core business. We are proud to partner with Europe’s leading Fintechs and financial institutions such as DKB, Revolut, N26 and Raisin. Founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing, Upvest now brings together over 270 talented professionals from more than 70 nationalities. We’re backed by world-class investors such as Hedosophia, Sapphire, Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Notion Capital, and Motive Ventures. The Growth team at Upvest is driving our go-to-market activities, spanning across Marketing, Sales and Customer Success. Our mission is to become the Investment-as-a-service category leader for Europe's leading brokers, banks, wealth managers, and non-financial platforms. We're honoured to work with some of Europe's leading brands in a fast moving and expanding market already and are just getting started. As Upvest enters the next stage of growth, we are seeking a highly motivated and outcome-driven Account Executive to join us. All our team efforts are centred around the client and give you the opportunity to work with high autonomy coupled with inspirational leadership. Working in the Growth team combines impactful work with a relaxed and fun atmosphere. We have established strong practices around feedback, team health and social events. In this role, you will work directly with our Director Business Development DACH https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-reichhardt-87b6a9b0/Sven Loeckel https://www.linkedin.com/in/sven-loeckel-10824858/ to drive our Financial Institutions sales - winning and delighting our clients and collaborating closely with our growth and launch teams to help large financial institutions to digitise their investing propositions. You’ll leverage your expertise in financial services and sales to understand our clients’ needs and craft a compelling commercial proposition for them. This is an opportunity to own sizeable client relationships and thus having a direct impact by both driving the Upvest business and transforming the retail investment market. WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Own the cross-functional sales cycle until contract closing to meet or exceed sales targets - Build the business by consultatively understanding our clients’ needs and developing compelling sales materials that communicate the Upvest value proposition effectively - Build and maintain strong client and industry relationships through regular client calls and networking events - Contribute to our sales enablement efforts and process improvement by sharing client insights and driving best practice - Enable a seamless client onboarding experience via effective communication with our implementations team WHAT YOU BRING: - Experience: You have 4-6+ years of experience in sales-related roles (ideally within investments, banking or wealth), ideally within a B2B set up and with API-based products. Alternatively you have worked for 4-6+ years at a specialised financial services consultancy on IT-infrastructure related projects ideally in the context of investment services. - Industry Exposure: You have previous experience within and strong interest into investments, securities trading and software-/infrastructure-as-a-service products (e.g., BaaS) - Client-centric sales: You have demonstrated expertise with B2B sales methodologies, such as solution/consultative selling as well as practical application of industry best practices, always starting with the clients needs’ - Stakeholder management Skills: You have demonstrated strong leadership skills, are able to communicate well with different stakeholder groups, a ... (truncated, view full listing at source)