DiligenceSquared
Senior Account Executive
New York City · Senior
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About the role
- We're looking for a senior commercial individual contributor to win new business and grow relationships with leading private equity firms.
- This is our first dedicated quota-carrying commercial role.
- It is not initially a people-management role, but a strong performer could grow into broader GTM leadership as the team expands.
Responsibilities
- Own a revenue target: Build sufficient qualified pipeline, manage opportunities rigorously and close new and repeat engagements.
- Run the sales process: Lead discovery, coordinate follow-up, shape proposals, navigate procurement and keep opportunities moving to a clear decision.
- Build the playbook: Improve account planning, messaging, CRM discipline, forecasting, handoffs and measurement as we learn what scales.
- Partner across the company: Turn marketing, events, partnerships and strong project delivery into relevant commercial conversations.
- Private equity fluency: You understand how deal teams operate, how live transactions create demand and how senior investment professionals make buying decisions.
- Builder mentality: You want to develop the commercial approach alongside the founders rather than inherit a mature territory, large support team or established playbook.
Requirements
- You have at least five years of experience in enterprise sales, business development, private equity, commercial due diligence, strategy consulting, investor relations or another relevant private-markets role.
- Evidence that you can win business:
- You have personally originated, advanced and converted new business or owned meaningful revenue.
- You are prepared to prospect, run discovery, shape proposals, navigate objections, negotiate and ask directly for the business.
- You know which opportunities deserve time, when to involve delivery leaders and how to balance revenue growth with project economics and the client experience.
Nice to have
- Selling research, data, expert-network, advisory or private-market technology to investment teams
- Experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, strategy consulting or investor relations
- An existing network across private equity deal teams
- Experience in a founder-led or early-stage company
- Experience mentoring junior commercial team members
- Work directly with founders who bought this research at Blackstone and delivered it at BCG
- Intellectually demanding work across complex industries, sophisticated clients and high-stakes decisions
- A small, senior team that enjoys working together, with regular offsites, team dinners and meals together at the office
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, high ownership and very little bureaucracy
Company info
- Turn marketing, events, partnerships and strong project delivery into relevant commercial conversations.
- Relevant experience: You have at least five years of experience in enterprise sales, business development, private equity, commercial due diligence, strategy consulting, investor relations or another relevant private-markets role.
- Evidence that you can win business: You have personally originated, advanced and converted new business or owned meaningful revenue. A strong brand-name background, senior-client exposure or impressive network alone is not enough.
- A relevant commercial path: You may be an experienced seller of research, data, advisory services or private-market technology. We are also open to candidates from private equity, commercial due diligence, strategy consulting or investor relations who can demonstrate real origination, client development and commercial ownership.
- Credibility with senior clients: You can lead a substantive conversation, ask sharp questions and earn trust without relying on a scripted pitch.
- Full-cycle selling ability: You are prepared to prospect, run discovery, shape proposals, navigate objections, negotiate and ask directly for the business.
- Persistent execution: You stay organized through long and uneven sales cycles and continue creating momentum after rejection or delay.
- Strong judgment: You know which opportunities deserve time, when to involve delivery leaders and how to balance revenue growth with project economics and the client experience.
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