Founding Account Executive

Company: Meritt
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Location: London
Job Description:

£100-125k base + £200-£250k OTE + real equity | In office

Our Client

Just raised £4.8M from Nexus Venture Partners.

Already live with Monzo, Juni, Novobanco.

18 months old. Growing fast.

What They Do

Banks spend £50-200M yearly on compliance consultants who deliver PDFs.

They use AI to read 10,000+ pages of regulations and tell banks exactly what to do.

One client: 48‑hour compliance process → 4 hours.

The market’s ready – enterprises are actually buying from startups again.

The Role

Employee #3 in sales. Report directly to the founders.

Founding Account Executive who runs deals and helps build the enterprise motion.

Own full‑cycle deals with compliance and risk teams at banks.

Shape the sales playbook from scratch.

Help scale from £1M to £10M ARR.

You Have

  • 4+ years selling £50k+ deals to financial services (or adjacent)
  • Proven track record of consistent quota achievement
  • Experience with 3-6 month deal cycles
  • Comfortable building your own pipeline
  • Actually want to be a founding AE (not just saying it)

You Get

  • Work directly with technical founders (ex‑Razorpay, ex‑PhonePe)
  • No middle management, no politics, no 47‑slide decks
  • Real equity in a funded startup
  • Build the foundation of a £10B market opportunity
  • Your processes become the company playbook

Interview Process

  1. Screening call with meritt (20 mins)
  2. Founder chat (30 mins)
  3. Deal walkthrough (60 mins)
  4. Decision within 48hrs

Ready?

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Posted: May 21st, 2026