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Qualitate

AI-driven primary intelligence platform for research

Account Executive - Public Equity

Account ExecutiveUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeNew York, NY, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have 2–8 years of quota-carrying closing experience selling software, data, or research products into public equity and similar public market investment firms.
  • Have an immediately activatable network of public equity professionals, including the ability to reach portfolio managers, senior analysts, and directors of research.
  • Understand fundamental research workflows, including idea sourcing, building conviction through primary research, sizing positions, and managing risk.
  • Have experience selling to skeptical, analytically rigorous buyers and demonstrating concrete value.
  • Be comfortable with fast, iterative, demo-driven sales cycles measured in weeks.
  • Have experience in an early-stage or high-growth environment where processes needed to be created.

Responsibilities

  • Prospect into and close public equity accounts across public market strategies, including fundamental long/short, multi-strategy, event-driven, and activist; own the sales cycle from first contact through signed contract.
  • Build pipeline through personal networks, outbound prospecting, conference presence, modern AI tooling, and creative approaches.
  • Run demos tailored to each fund’s research workflows, including idea sourcing, channel checks, management team diligence, and sector deep-dives.
  • Navigate buying processes ranging from a single portfolio manager decision to multi-stakeholder approvals involving directors of research, chief investment officers, compliance, and procurement.
  • Manage trials and proofs of concept through conversion, driving adoption and purchasing in target accounts.
  • Feed product insights back to engineering to inform product development.
  • Help build the sales playbook, including the public equity sales process, messaging, competitive positioning, and customer relationship management standards.

Desired Qualifications

  • Direct experience selling alternative data, expert network services, or research workflow tools to public equity firms.
  • Familiarity with the competitive landscape in expert networks, market research, and AI tooling for finance.
  • Experience as part of an early sales team helping to build the go-to-market function.
  • Prior experience as an equity research analyst, public equity analyst, or investment banker before moving into sales.

About the Company

Qualitate

AI-driven primary intelligence platform for research

Qualitate provides an AI-powered primary intelligence platform that automates and scales expert research for investment and strategy teams. Its AI Moderator runs thousands of one-on-one expert interviews in parallel, handling study design, recruitment, moderation, and insight generation, and it outputs quantified time-series data with a growing transcript library to continually train the AI. By vertically integrating panels, technology, and insights, it replaces fragmented research with a single continuous intelligence solution used by enterprises, hedge funds, PE, VC, and asset managers for competitive intelligence and due diligence. Its goal is to help clients make faster, data-driven decisions by delivering high-quality intelligence in days at a lower cost than traditional methods.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Series A
Total funding
$32M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2024

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