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title: 'Account Executive, Banking at Knot'
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# Account Executive, Banking at Knot

- **Company:** Knot
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $160k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-11-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/knot/bdfbedb4-7567-4caa-ae69-66cb39bee43e

## Job description

## About the team

Knot’s mission is to empower consumers and businesses alike with connected merchant and banking experiences. Knot is like “Plaid for merchant connectivity.” We are building the platform connecting merchants to the many applications that consumers and businesses interact with everyday. Our flagship [CardSwitcher](https://www.knotapi.com/cardswitcher/) product allows consumers to instantly update & manage their cards on file with online merchant accounts (e.g. Netflix or PayPal), while newer products like [TransactionLink](https://www.knotapi.com/tx-link/) support the retrieval of receipt-level transaction data and [AgenticShopping](https://www.knotapi.com/agentic-shopping/) enables 1-click, native shopping experiences. Founded in 2021, Knot was founded by two brothers and Thiel Fellows - Rory and Kieran O’Reilly - and today powers connected online payment experiences for hundreds of thousands of consumers. Companies like American Express, PayPal, Current, BILT, Step, and more choose to embed Knot’s SDK in their apps to power best-in-class experiences for their customers. Knot is proudly backed by a select group of investors, including Nava Ventures, 8VC, American Express, Plaid, and co-founders & CEOs of prominent companies like Twitter, Warby Parker, Allbirds, Casper, Intercom, Deel, Italic, DraftKings, and many more.

## About the team

Knot is expanding across the digital banking ecosystem, and the Channel Sales function is a key part of that growth. This team drives new business through established technology platforms that serve community banks and credit unions. As a Account Executive, you will work directly with the GTM lead, CEO, and Product team to execute Knot’s channel sales strategy. This is a hands-on operator role focused on outbound execution and closing new business within a defined territory. You will sell to community banks and credit unions through the ecosystems of leading digital banking and infrastructure partners.

## What you’ll be doing

- Execute Knot’s channel sales playbook by prospecting, engaging, and closing community banks and credit unions
- Manage a defined list of target accounts and drive consistent, high-quality outbound outreach to key decision-makers
- Run the entire sales cycle from initial outreach through qualification, demo, contracting, and close
- Maintain organized, accurate tracking of all outreach, pipeline progress, and closed-won deals in internal systems
- Provide structured feedback from customer and partner interactions to help refine messaging and improve channel effectiveness
- Collaborate closely with the GTM lead, CEO, and Product team to ensure alignment on customer needs and technical capabilities
- Consistently achieve or exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue targets within your assigned accounts

## Who you are

- 2–5 years of experience in sales or business development, ideally within banking technology, SaaS, or payments
- Proven success selling into channel ecosystems such as digital banking providers, core processors, or issuer processors
- Experience selling to community banks and credit unions, with a clear understanding of how these institutions evaluate and adopt new technology
- Demonstrated ability to execute structured outbound campaigns and close new business, not just source leads
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple deals simultaneously
- Strong communicator who can translate Knot’s technical capabilities into tangible commercial value for financial institutions
- Motivated by precision, ownership, and the opportunity to directly influence revenue within a small, high-performing team

## What we offer

- Interesting and challenging work
- Competitive base salary (commensurate with experience) + up to 20% annual bonus + generous early employee equity
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents (U.S.)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Beautiful NYC office in the heart of Flatiron
- Herman Miller Aeron Desk Chair
- Food (snacks, frequent lunches, and often dinner for those working late)

## About Knot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Knot builds the first merchant connectivity platform, enabling cardholders to seamlessly update and manage payment methods on-file across hundreds of online merchants.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Rory O’Reilly (CEO) and Kieran O’Reilly (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Merchant connectivity / Fintech infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – major financial institutions, fintechs, and startups that embed Knot’s SDK to power card-on-file switching and merchant account connectivity.
- **Mission / Purpose**: Bridge the gap between consumers’ online accounts and the apps they use every day – “the first merchant connectivity layer for the internet.”

## Products & Services
- **CardSwitcher™**: A product that seamlessly updates payment methods on-file across the internet when a cardholder receives a new card or switches accounts. (API/SDK)
- **TransactionLink™**: A product that extends the merchant connectivity platform, linking transaction data from merchant accounts into the user’s financial app. (API/SDK)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding**: $13.0M across two rounds (Seed in 2021, Series A in 2024)
- **Notable Investors**: Nava Ventures (led Series A), 8VC, American Express, Plaid, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Reaches **200M+ consumer lives** through its financial brand partners; team of ~32 people with 80% in engineering; 13 active job postings as of mid-2025; expanding merchant coverage to power experiences for brands like Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, and DoorDash.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in merchant account connectivity** – most existing solutions only cover banking data.
- **Easy integration** – fits into existing tech stack with “just a few lines of code” and boasts best-in-class uptime.
- **Strong network effects** – each new merchant connection increases platform value for both card issuers and consumers.
- **Backed by industry incumbents** (American Express, Plaid) gives credibility and distribution channels.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the merchant connectivity platform by adding more merchants and enabling new use cases beyond card switching.
- Deepen relationships with financial institutions and expand into adjacent products (e.g., transaction enrichment, account linking).
- Continue building a “talent-dense,” in-person engineering team in NYC to maintain velocity and quality.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, tight-knit team (40 people) with high autonomy and ownership. Values include “extreme ownership,” “speak the truth,” and “level up.” Problems are approached from first principles.
- **In-person collaboration**: **5 days/week in NYC office** – intentional co-location for speed and culture.
- **Compensation**: Strong base salary, 20% performance bonus, and meaningful equity ownership.
- **Perks**: Stocked snacks, catered lunches, optional dinners, Herman Miller chairs, flexible time off (no accrual), and frequent team meals.
- **Engineering-driven**: 80% of the team is in engineering; “no handoffs, no blame, no excuses” – engineers own code from deployment to performance.
- **Hiring process**: Apply → initial coding/technical interview with tech lead → CTO chat → onsite (system design + cross-functional) → fast offer. “Wildcard” role available for versatile contributors.

## Sources
1. [knotapi.com](https://www.knotapi.com/)
2. [knotapi.com/careers](https://www.knotapi.com/careers/)
3. [knotapi.com/careers/engineering](https://www.knotapi.com/careers/engineering/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/knotapi](https://www.linkedin.com/company/knotapi)

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