Client Director, Financial Services (BFSI)

Location: New York, New York, United States; candidates may be based in or willing to relocate to New York and must be willing to travel regularly across the Northeast.

Base salary: $300K–$380K plus variable compensation, equity, and additional benefits.

Company

hirify.global accelerates superintelligence and builds AI datasets, reinforcement learning environments, research benchmarks, and end-to-end agentic AI systems for frontier AI labs and Fortune 500 enterprises.

What you will do

• Build a focused target list across banks, private equity and alternatives managers, asset managers, and insurers.
• Open new financial services accounts by developing Managing Director-level relationships across COO, CIO, and operations organizations.
• Lead enterprise deals from qualification through solution shaping, pricing, negotiation, and the first signed SOW.
• Coordinate with solutions engineers and AI architects on platform-and-services proposals without owning technical solution design.
• Remain accountable after the first SOW and establish a path to a multi-year AI program and second project.
• Manage pipeline discipline and provide forecasts from initial relationship through expansion.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience selling technology services, data, or AI solutions to financial services organizations.
• Demonstrated success opening at least one new logo within the last three years and personally closing first engagements of $1 million or more.
• Executive-level relationships with Managing Directors and above, including COO, CIO, and head-of-operations leaders.
• Experience leading full-cycle enterprise sales from relationship development through signed SOW.
• Consultative and technical fluency in customer problems, AI deployment concepts, and collaboration with solutions engineers and AI architects.
• Ability to work independently, maintain a disciplined forecast, and remain accountable to a small leadership team.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the Northeast.

Nice to have

• Experience co-selling with a hyperscaler or AI lab.
• Experience selling a data or AI platform alongside services.
• Relationships inside alternatives managers, global banks, or insurers.
• Experience based in or willingness to relocate to New York.

Culture & Benefits

• Client-first, action-oriented, and AI-forward working principles.
• Opportunity to work with frontier AI labs on expert datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and advanced benchmarks.
• Opportunity to contribute to leading-edge AI research and work connected to conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
• Collaboration with colleagues experienced at Google, Meta, Amazon, and other leading technology companies.
• Variable compensation, equity, and additional benefits.