Founding Sales Lead

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
170K-200K Annually
Entry level
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Owns the full enterprise sales cycle for a financial services company, from prospecting and product demonstrations through negotiations, contracts, onboarding, and early customer usage. Builds outbound and inbound sales processes, qualification criteria, pricing, pipeline reporting, and repeatable playbooks. Partners with legal, compliance, banking, technical, and leadership teams, develops a self-serve path, and eventually hires sales development and account management staff.
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About the company

Our client is a financial services company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own a company's revenue from first outreach through signed contracts and into live customer activity. The role covers building the sales process, pricing and commercial terms from the ground up, and working closely with technical, compliance and leadership teams.

What you'll do

- Carry prospective business clients from first conversation through product walkthroughs and terms to a signed agreement.

- Shepherd newly signed clients through setup, required checks and early usage until they are actively using the service.

- Build outbound prospecting using sales intelligence and CRM tools, and set up pipeline tracking and reporting.

- Design the inbound path from early interest through demo, and define how leads are qualified.

- Create a pricing approach covering fees, spreads and platform charges.

- Lead commercial negotiations and manage contract terms with legal, compliance and banking partners.

- Over time, shape a self-serve path that feeds enterprise pipeline and hands high-intent accounts to sales.

- Document what works into a repeatable playbook and hire the first sales development and account management staff when volume justifies it.


Requirements

What we're looking for

- Experience selling to technical buyers in financial technology, payments, banking or compliance.

- Full-cycle enterprise sales experience at a B2B company, including building a sales motion from scratch.

- Comfort operating with founders in a fast-moving environment with little existing process.

Bonus points

- Prior experience as a founder, founding account executive or in another go-to-market role.


Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $170K - $200K

- Equity

- Group health care coverage

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- Hybrid, ideally at least three days per week in the office

- Travel to conferences and customers about once a month

- Full-time

Skills Required

  • Experience selling to technical buyers in financial technology, payments, banking, or compliance
  • Full-cycle enterprise sales experience at a B2B company
  • Experience building a sales motion from scratch
  • Comfort operating with founders in a fast-moving environment with little existing process
  • Prior experience as a founder, founding account executive, or another go-to-market role
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.

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