AI Commercial Strategist - London
About this role
Auquan develops autonomous AI agents that eliminate the repetitive, manual work slowing down financial institutions. Our technology supports credit, investment, ESG, and compliance workflows for leading firms including Goldman Sachs, UBS, CVC, and MetLife. Today, 40% of the world’s top 50 financial institutions use Auquan to remove manual processes, speed up decision-making, and achieve greater strategic impact.
With teams growing across the US, UK, and India, we’re building an elite force of innovators ready to redefine what’s possible with AI and machine learning.We’re in hypergrowth: our customer base has grown 4x year-over-year, with demand accelerating across asset management. You’ll be selling alongside - and into - some of the most advanced technology teams in financial services, partnering with leaders actively reinventing how asset managers operate with AI.
With teams scaling across the US, UK, and India, this is a rare moment to join: huge whitespace, global runway, and expansive opportunities to grow across NYC, London, and all regions.About the role
As an Account Executive – Enterprise (Asset Management), you will own growth within a fast-scaling portfolio of enterprise asset managers already using Auquan. This is a senior land-and-expand role: turn early workflow wins into platform-wide rollouts across Front, Middle, and Back Office, closing large, multi-year expansions that reshape how clients operate.
You’ll lead account strategy end-to-end stakeholder mapping, whitespace discovery, 12-month plans, internal outbound pipeline, and executive-level deal execution.
- 10+ years enterprise B2B sales; 5+ years selling into Asset Managers across FO/MO/BO.
- Proven expansion track record (not just renewals).
- Excellent account mapping, whitespace analysis, and multi-stakeholder planning.
- Relentless internal outbound and multi-threading instincts.
- AI/data platform fluency and outcome-led discovery skills.
- Credible, resilient presence with senior investment and ops leaders.
- Account mapping & plans: build FO/MO/BO stakeholder maps; create and run 12-month expansion plans with deal sequencing and quarterly forecasts.
- Expansion pipeline: generate aggressive internal outbound pipeline (new teams, workflows, regions, products); multi-thread for urgency and momentum.
- Workflow expansion: uncover pain across FO/MO/BO and translate into AI agent use cases with measurable outcomes.
- Discovery & close: run senior discovery, build ROI cases, own proposals/pricing, and drive to signature.
- Executive navigation: manage complex buying committees and long cycles with CIO/COO, investment, risk, ops, compliance leaders.
- Cross-functional leadership: partner with CS on triggers/renewals/upsells and with Product/Eng on roadmap informed by expansion needs.
- 4x YoY customer growth and accelerating enterprise adoption.
- Sell into the best: partner with top-tier, highly advanced FS tech teams.
- Massive whitespace for multi-workflow expansions.
- Global runway: grow fast across NYC, London, and all regions.
- Positive, business-first culture: high standards, low ego, and real team energy - charity runs plus bi-annual co-working weeks in different countries, working side-by-side in the same office.
What we offer
We are an office-first company and expect regular in-person collaboration as part of this role. You should also be comfortable collaborating across time zones (US, UK, India).We offer a competitive package designed to support you both inside and outside of work:
Base Salary: Factors that may impact the agreed upon salary within the range for a particular candidate include years of experience, level of education obtained, skill set, and other external factors.
- OTE: 100% of base (uncapped commission; 50/50 base-variable)
Equity: Meaningful stock options so you share in our growth
Time Off: Flexible PTO
Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance (UK)
Retirement: Pension
Company at a glance
Auquan is the market leader in agentic AI for institutional finance, on a mission to liberate brilliant people from repetitive manual work so they can bring meaning back to their roles. Headquartered in London with offices in New York and Bangalore, the company serves approximately 40% of the top 50 global firms, helping them handle mission-critical work across front, middle, and back office operations. Auquan's clients have collectively saved more than 100,000 hours of manual work through the company's solutions. Backed by leading investors including Peak XV, Neotribe Ventures, Episode 1, and Stage 2 Capital, Auquan was recognized as a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI for Banking and Investment Services.
Top Benefits
- Stock Options
- Flexible PTO
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension
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