Sphinx Defense
Founding Sales
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 149 days ago
RESTMachine LearningSalesNegotiationProcurementMentoring
About the role
- tl;dr: We've won every single deal we've competed for.
- Background Before you can move money or open an account, someone has to make sure you're not a criminal.
- We help banks and fintechs eliminate 90% of manual work, cut compliance costs by 4×, and make onboarding instantaneous.
Responsibilities
- The product closes - we need someone to build the machine that puts it in front of every bank and fintech that needs it.
- If you've closed six and seven-figure enterprise deals, love building from scratch, and light up a room when you walk in, we should talk.
- Sphinx builds AI analysts that work inside browsers, APIs, and internal systems just like humans - automating AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring end-to-end.
- build the pipeline, run the full cycle, and lay the foundation for a sales org that scales with us.
- Own the full sales cycle from first touch to signed contract.
- You'll prospect, run discovery, lead demos, negotiate, and close - bringing in new banks, fintechs, and MSBs across the world.
- Build Sphinx's sales organization alongside the CEO.
- Work directly with the GTM team to generate, qualify, and refine leads - building a pipeline that's predictable, data-driven, and constantly improving.
- You'll partner with the CEO on pricing, packaging, territory planning, and competitive positioning - feeding frontline insights back into strategy.
Requirements
- You have 3-5+ years of sales experience with a track record of closing $100K-$1M+ enterprise contracts.
- You've navigated procurement, legal, and multi-stakeholder buying committees - and you know how to move complex deals forward.
- Before you can move money or open an account, someone has to make sure you're not a criminal.
Compensation
- 🍽 Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office
- 🗺️ Annual offsite (last one in Mexico!)
- ✈️ Paid relocation & one-month temporary housing
- 💻 Latest tech and as many monitors as you can fit on a desk
Benefits
- 🏥 Comprehensive healthcare
- 🏝️ Unlimited PTO
Company info
- Banks spend $200B a year hiring thousands of analysts to review alerts and fill out reports by hand.
- The space has seen very little innovation, and customers complain about our most well-funded competitors weekly.
- It's not glamorous, until you realize you're selling the intelligence layer that protects the entire financial system.
- Our co-founders previously sold an AI company & have built ML systems that scaled to millions of users and closed deals with major banks.
- The rest of our team in SF includes PhDs, industry experts, and competitive coders.
- We're chasing customers - and closing them.
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