Sales Associate

  • Competitive salary and commission-based bonus
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • 1-3 yrs
  • Arkera
  • 01 Apr 19

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious graduate or a talented professional from a financial services background to work for an AI / Deep learning company. Our clients are the largest hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks and we solve some of the biggest problems they face using deep learning and financial domain knowledge. Arkera is a real-time market intelligence platform built by traders to uncover the most difficult forms of market moving information from an ocean of news. In this role you will be managing client relationships and building out the “next generation” of market intelligence solutions.

What you will do 🚀

  • Increase client usage and adoption of our product at an enterprise level
  • Work closely with the co-CEO to shape business development strategy
  • Provide detailed feedback from clients to product managers so we can improve our products
  • Produce proposals, concept papers, and marketing documents that communicate the core concepts of our business strategy, mission, impact, and products to multiple audiences, including the general council, senior leadership, policy makers, and the public
  • Serve as a link between business development and technical teams
  • Develop new ways to improve the proposal development process and streamline our procedures

This job is perfect for you if you have 👍

  • The ambition to escalate your career and get on the fast track of utilizing AI / Machine learning to transform businesses in the financial markets
  • A solution-providing attitude, thinking of new ways of helping the financial sector leverage our technologies and financial knowledge
  • Experience working in or selling to the buy-side mutual funds, asset managers or to a sell side brokerage firm, investment advisors
  • Strong attention to detail, and a go-getter attitude
  • Have the confidence in meeting the C-suite of top financial institutions and having the ability to engage with them

What you will get 🎁

  • Very competitive starting salary depending on experience, and a commission-based bonus
  • The opportunity to interact with some of the most powerful people in the financial sector (it takes 10+ years in the large financial organisations to even come close to these people)
  • Remote working option - on Wednesdays you can work from anywhere!
  • Tech environment, we are tech company except that we leverage our deep financial domain experience
  • All the perks of a cool tech company - free breakfast, coffees, beers and drinks, ping pong tables and many other WeWork perks etc etc

Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen and one or two on-site interviews, depending on your convenience and availability. The process usually takes about 1 week in total but our fastest hire was in just 24 hours!!! 🏃
We have an awesome private office at WeWork South Bank Central!