Managing Director, Strategic Accounts — Global Banking Technology

About Monstro

Monstro is the operating system for governed financial intelligence. We build governance and intelligence infrastructure that enables artificial intelligence to operate safely, explainably, and at institutional scale. We exist because the level of financial guidance historically available to a small group should be accessible to many more people. By combining AI with deep institutional infrastructure, we help financial institutions deliver more personalized, responsible, and life‑changing financial support to millions of individuals. We’re building mission‑critical systems in a highly regulated domain, and we care deeply about doing it right. If you’re motivated by meaningful problems, high standards, and shaping infrastructure that improves financial outcomes, you’ll feel at home here.

About the Role

We are hiring a Managing Director, Strategic Accounts to personally lead the pursuit and closing of Monstro's largest, most strategic engagements with Tier‑1 global banks. This is a senior individual contributor role — a quota‑carrying operator‑seller who runs the room and closes the deal. It is not a sales management role. Target deals are multi‑year transformation programs and enterprise platform deployments in the $25M–$100M+ ACV range. You will work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with the CEO and CRO to win Monstro’s earliest transformational partnerships with the world's most influential financial institutions. This is an early enterprise hire at Monstro. The narrative, the GTM motion, the discovery framework, the pricing posture, and the deal playbook are still being shaped. You will help shape them — not inherit them. We are looking for a seller who is energized by that, not slowed down by it.

Why This Role Matters

The global banking industry is undergoing a once‑in‑a‑generation infrastructure shift. A handful of strategic, long‑term partnerships will determine market leadership in governed financial intelligence — and the seller who lands them will be the person who defines how Monstro shows up to a Tier‑1 bank for the next decade. Each Tier‑1 win compounds: it defines the product roadmap, validates the category, and creates reference accounts that unlock the next wave of global opportunities. The output of this role is not a forecast; it is the first set of marquee logos that make Monstro inevitable in the institutional market.

What You’ll Do

• Own the Deal, End‑to‑End: Personally lead pursuit, qualification, and close of multi‑year transformation programs and enterprise platform deployments ($25M–$100M+ ACV). Run discovery, build the business case, drive the technical evaluation alongside Product and Engineering, negotiate commercial terms, and bring the deal across the line. Own the forecast on your accounts with discipline. No surprises, no padding, no hopium.
• Build Pipeline, Don’t Just Inherit It: Develop pipeline through a deliberate, repeatable process — account mapping, cold and warm outreach, executive briefings, partner channels, events, and content — not solely through your personal network. Use existing relationships as accelerants where they exist; build new ones where they don't. Comfort with cold development is required, not optional. Maintain a working pipeline of strategic pursuits with clear next steps, identified economic buyers, and documented mutual close plans.
• Engage at the Executive Level: Build and sustain C‑suite relationships (CEO, CRO, CIO, CTO, Head of Data, Head of Wealth, Head of Risk) and convert them into active executive sponsorship inside the bank. Run the room in executive sessions — frame the problem, defend the architecture, handle objections from procurement, risk, and InfoSec on the spot.
• Help Shape the GTM Motion: Translate every deal cycle into reusable artifacts: ICP refinement, qualification criteria, objection libraries, competitive positioning, ROI models, and proposal templates. Partner with the CEO, CRO, and Product on messaging, pricing structure, and packaging — bring the voice of the institutional buyer back into the building. Help define what the enterprise sales motion looks like as Monstro scales. Your deals are the source material.
• Navigate Procurement, Risk, and Compliance: Drive complex procurement, InfoSec, regulatory, and legal review cycles in parallel with commercial negotiation. Anticipate the gates; don't get caught by them. Coordinate Legal, Security, and Compliance internally to clear approvals on first submission wherever possible.
• Hand Off Cleanly to Delivery: Orchestrate the transition from signature to deployment with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success so the bank's first 90 days are a credit to the deal, not a complaint about it. Be a credible voice in the market — executive briefings, industry forums, private dinners, and selective public speaking that elevates Monstro's positioning with Tier‑1 institutions.

What Success Looks Like

• Within 6 months: a qualified, advancing pipeline of 6–10 named Tier‑1 pursuits, each with an identified economic buyer, executive sponsor, and documented mutual close plan.
• Within 12 months: active executive sponsorship at 6–10 priority Tier‑1 banks, generated through a mix of existing relationships and new ones you built from scratch.
• Within 18 months: 2–4 closed transformational partnerships in the $25M–$100M+ ACV range, contributing $50M–$200M in total contract value. Forecast accuracy within ±10% on a rolling 90‑day basis from month 9 onward.
• ≥60% first‑cycle clearance on InfoSec, regulatory, and procurement reviews through early alignment with internal Legal, Security, and Compliance.
• Reference‑grade outcomes on closed accounts: ≥50% of customers willing to take peer reference calls within 6 months of go‑live.
• Tangible contribution to the GTM motion: at least one durable artifact (pricing framework, qualification model, objection library, ROI calculator, or competitive playbook) shipped from your deal experience and adopted by the broader team.
• At least two product enhancements influenced by Tier‑1 deal cycles you ran, prioritized into the roadmap within 12–18 months.

What We’re Looking For

• Senior individual contributor, not a sales manager. You have personally carried a number and personally closed $25M+ ACV enterprise technology deals into Tier‑1 or large regional banks. References will validate that you, specifically, drove those wins.
• Demonstrated repeatable sales motion. You can walk through how you build pipeline from cold, how you qualify, how you advance, and how you close — with specifics, not slogans.
• You have closed meaningful deals into accounts where you had no pre‑existing relationship at the start of the cycle.
• End‑to‑end ownership through delivery. You have sold technical products into Tier‑1 banks and stayed engaged through implementation. You understand what gets a deal signed and what gets it deployed — and that those are different problems.
• Executive credibility in financial services. You have active, working relationships with senior decision‑makers at Tier‑1 banks (CIO, CTO, CRO, CDO, Heads of Data / Wealth / Risk / Transformation). You treat your network as an accelerant, not the whole strategy.
• Technical literacy. Comfortable engaging substantively on core banking infrastructure, cloud, data architecture, APIs, AI governance, and security/compliance frameworks. You can hold a technical conversation without a sales engineer in the room.
• Domain depth. Real working knowledge of banking infrastructure, regulatory regimes, InfoSec processes, and how procurement and risk actually work inside a Tier‑1 institution.
• Operator mindset. You are energized by ambiguity. You have sold at an early stage before — ideally where the deck, the pricing, and the case studies didn’t fully exist yet — and you helped build them. You write your own follow‑ups, run your own discovery, and don't wait for enablement to ship.
• Background. Likely an early or top‑performing enterprise seller at a company that sold infrastructure into banks (e.g., Palantir, Snowflake, Databricks, Bloomberg, Oracle Financial Services, FIS/Fiserv, Finastra, Temenos, MongoDB, Confluent, or a comparable financial‑services‑focused enterprise software business). The pattern we care about is what you closed and how, not the logo on your resume.
• Global fluency. Comfortable operating across major financial hubs (US, UK, Europe, Middle East). Willing and able to heavily travel internationally.
• Voice in the market. Willing and able to represent Monstro externally — executive briefings, industry events, selective public speaking — in a way that compounds pipeline.

How We Will Evaluate You

Our process is calibrated specifically to distinguish operator‑sellers from relationship‑only hires. You can expect to:

• Walk us through 2–3 specific deals end‑to‑end, including how you built pipeline, who the economic buyer was, what nearly killed the deal, and what your specific role was in saving it.
• Show how you would build a 90‑day plan for a named Tier‑1 bank where you have no pre‑existing relationships.
• Pressure‑test our current narrative and pricing posture and tell us what you would change.
• Talk through how you would build the repeatable motion alongside leadership — not just execute on a pre‑existing one.

Compensation

This is a senior individual contributor role with executive‑level total compensation, structured as a true closer's seat — 50/50 base/variable split, with uncapped accelerators designed so that top performers materially out‑earn OTE on the strength of closed deals.

On‑Target Variable: £200,000 – £240,000 (50% of OTE)

Realistic Top‑Performer Earnings: £1,200,000 – £2,000,000+ annually at sustained over‑attainment with one or more Tier‑1 transformational wins

Equity: 0.25% – 0.50% (pre‑Series‑A; subject to Board approval and standard four‑year vesting with a one‑year cliff)

Commission accelerates above 100% of plan and accelerates again above 150%, with no cap on annual earnings. Additional milestone kickers apply on first‑of‑kind Tier‑1 wins, multi‑year contract structures, and named marquee logos that establish reference accounts for the next wave of pursuits. The plan is built to reward closed ACV, not activity. A single transformational $50M–$100M+ ACV win, structured and closed, can drive earnings well into seven figures on its own.

Why Monstro?

• Ownership & Impact: Shape the future of AI‑powered finance—building a category‑defining product used by consumers and institutions around the world.
• Experienced Team: Join a team with leadership that has a track record of scaling companies from early stage to major exits.
• Principles‑Driven Culture: Work in a culture that values speed, ownership, and impact—what most companies achieve in 90 days, we do in 45.
• Comprehensive Compensation Package: Competitive salary, equity, and robust benefits package, including paid health, vision, dental, and disability coverage.