[Hiring] Solution Sales Executive - Financial Services @FICO

Role Description

FICO is seeking a dynamic and strategic sales professional to join our Global Platform Software Sales team. In this overlay sales role, you'll be at the forefront of evangelizing and selling the FICO® Platform—a cutting-edge decision intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to build, deploy, and scale smarter business decisions across the customer lifecycle. You'll work with a dedicated portfolio of enterprise accounts — both existing and new — to drive initial adoption ("Land") and expansion ("Expand") of the FICO Platform.

• Work with existing and potential customers to understand their key initiatives in Consumer Lending and Retail Banking across Marketing, Originations, Customer Management, Personalization, Collections, and Fraud.
• Share expertise and thought leadership in Decisioning, Analytics, & Optimization within Financial Services to help our clients leapfrog the competition, leveraging FICO’s cutting-edge Platform.
• Build relationships with senior client stakeholders in Business and Technology to gain insight into their most urgent decision management-related problems while articulating FICO’s platform capabilities.
• Research and shape potential solution opportunities through collaborative engagement with internal Key Account Managers, Pre-Sales Domain Experts, and Pre-Sales Architects to formulate and effectively position solution proposals.
• Ensure clients are delighted with solutions purchased to create win-win relationships that are long-term, expanding, and profitable.
• Collaborate with internal FICO teams, including Global Solution Architecture, Product Development, Finance, and Professional Services, to shape a cohesive sales effort that educates our customers on the tremendous business value the FICO Platform delivers.
• Work with the largest and most advanced Financial Institutions as well as a core set of leaders in other sectors.
• Manage sales to quarterly and annual targets, with significant earnings upside when targets are exceeded.

Qualifications

• Proven Senior-Level Experience: Demonstrated success in building and managing strategic relationships with senior executives, particularly within large financial institutions.
• Enterprise Solution Sales Expertise: A track record of structuring and closing complex, multi-million-dollar deals, including SaaS-based solutions that expand existing offerings or integrate into larger solution bundles.
• Industry Knowledge: Deep familiarity with banking, credit risk, fraud prevention, account management, or consumer lending. Experience in applying technologies such as machine learning, AI, decision management, and optimization is highly desirable.
• Strategic Vision and Execution: Ability to craft and execute joint business plans that align with client objectives and FICO’s strategic priorities.
• Technology Knowledge: Good level of familiarity and ability to speak about Architecture, Integration, Cloud, AI, Decisioning, Automation, Analytics, and Optimization to key stakeholders.
• Growth Mindset: A passion to learn and educate customers and FICO colleagues through presentations and conversations. Strong soft skills, a genuine interest in people, and a desire to help them be wildly successful.
• Resiliency: Able to maintain focus and effectiveness under pressure, adaptable to change, and recover quickly from setbacks.
• Collaborative Leadership: A team-oriented mindset that values collaboration and leverages the collective strengths of colleagues to deliver exceptional results.
• Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 50% to maintain a close partnership with the client and foster meaningful, face-to-face interactions.
• Educational Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent commercial experience.
• Highly Desired: Proven Sales and/or Senior Pre-sales experience for 3 or more years selling an enterprise software solution to the financial services/banking industry.

Benefits

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits, and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $112,000 to $176,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills, and experience.