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# Enterprise Account Executive — Financial Services AI at Kognitos

- **Company:** Kognitos
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kognitos/c2d4f40d-ca81-47ac-b57c-df56f1c4c913

## Job description

Enterprise Account Executive — Financial Services AI [Kognitos](https://www.kognitos.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com) Kognitos is redefining how enterprises automate work using AI. Instead of brittle workflows and traditional RPA, Kognitos enables businesses to automate operations using natural language and AI-powered reasoning. We help enterprises deploy intelligent automation that scales across finance, operations, compliance, and back-office workflows. We’re looking for an experienced enterprise seller who understands both AI and the financial services landscape. This role is ideal for someone excited about helping banks, fintechs, insurers, and finance teams adopt next-generation AI automation. This is an opportunity to join an early, fast-growing company and play a foundational role in building the GTM motion for AI within financial services.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the full enterprise sales cycle from outbound prospecting through close
- Build relationships with executives across finance, operations, technology, and transformation teams
- Educate prospects on how Kognitos uses AI and natural language automation to modernize enterprise workflows
- Identify high-value automation opportunities within financial organizations
- Navigate technical, compliance, and security conversations with enterprise stakeholders
- Partner closely with solutions engineering and product teams during evaluations and pilots
- Develop pipeline through strategic outbound, networking, partnerships, and industry events
- Provide feedback on messaging, positioning, and product-market fit within financial services

## What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience
- Experience selling into financial services organizations including banking, fintech, insurance, or investment firms
- Background selling AI, automation, workflow, infrastructure, data, or enterprise platform solutions
- Proven track record closing complex enterprise deals
- Strong consultative and executive communication skills
- Ability to translate technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment

## Nice to Have

- Existing relationships within financial services organizations
- Experience selling AI copilots, automation platforms, RPA, or workflow transformation tools
- Familiarity with enterprise AI adoption challenges including governance, compliance, and security
- Prior startup or founding sales experience
- Technical fluency around APIs, LLMs, or enterprise systems

## Why Kognitos

- Work at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption
- Help define how financial organizations operationalize AI
- Join a high-growth team shaping the future of intelligent automation
- Competitive compensation + equity
- Opportunity to make an outsized impact early

Final note You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

## Equal opportunities provider

Kognitos is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Kognitos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kognitos provides a hallucination-free, deterministic agentic AI automation platform that allows enterprises to automate mission-critical business processes using plain English, with full governance and auditability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Binny Gill (former CTO at Nutanix)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Enterprise AI automation, business process automation, agentic AI
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises (finance, supply chain, procurement, IT, healthcare) – B2B, Enterprise
- **Mission / Purpose**: Deliver the world’s most trusted AI automation platform – secure, auditable, and hallucination-free, empowering enterprises to automate critical operations with complete confidence.

## Products & Services
- **Kognitos Platform (Agentic AI Automation)**: A governed, production-ready platform where business users describe automation workflows in plain English. The patented neurosymbolic AI engine executes every rule deterministically (zero hallucinations), with real-time audit trails, exception handling that learns, and over 200 pre-built connectors to ERP, CRM, cloud, and legacy systems.
- **Core Modules**: Natural Language Builder (no-code automation via chats, apps, document processing, living SOPs), Agent Manager (orchestration of governed agents), Knowledge Engineering (captures business variance and builds institutional memory).
- **Deployment Options**: SaaS, customer VPC, or hybrid cloud.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly reported; backed by a strong syndicate of investors (see below). Customer results include a process generating **$5M/month in revenue** (up from $1.2M), **50,000+ monthly BoLs processed**, and **3,300 hours of manual work eliminated per year** for one client.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Clear Ventures, Fin Capital, Engineering Capital, plus strategic operators from Nutanix, Snowflake, and other enterprise companies. Partners include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce, Epic, and many more.
- **Growth Signals**: Named **ISG Buyers Guide Leader 2025**, **theCUBE Most Innovative AI Product 2026**, **HFS Hot Tech 2026**, **Gartner Hype Cycle Sample Vendor 2025**. Customer roster includes DISH Network, PepsiCo, Paysafe, Century Supply Chain, TTX, Norco, JBI, Builders FirstSource, and others. Headcount: ~100 employees (60 in product+tech) as per Built In.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hallucination-free by architecture**: Patented neurosymbolic AI executes deterministic business logic (not probabilistic guesses), critical for finance, healthcare, and compliance-heavy workflows.
- **Plain English as an executable interface**: Business users can describe processes without code or flowcharts, collapsing time-to-value from months to days.
- **Built-in governance and audit**: Every step is logged and auditable; SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001 compliant.
- **Exception learning**: When unexpected events occur, the system handles them, asks for approval, and remembers the fix – continuously improving operations.
- **Massive integration ecosystem**: 200+ pre-built connectors to major ERP/CRM/cloud platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening enterprise adoption in finance, procurement, supply chain, and IT operations.
- Scaling the platform’s ability to handle unstructured data (emails, PDFs, contracts) alongside structured records.
- Expanding the “Knowledge Engineering” capability to turn organizational variance into a competitive moat.
- Continuous investment in multi-model LLM support (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, BYOM) without vendor lock-in.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven, customer-obsessed, radical transparency, ownership mentality, and empathy. Every team member talks to customers. Emphasis on “Ship & Iterate” fast learning cycles.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model – typically 3 days in-office at Mountain View, CA (HQ) or Bengaluru, India; remote US and Costa Rica roles available. Flexible hours with trust-based management.
- **Perks & Values**: All employees own equity (“every person at Kognitos owns Kognitos”). Strong focus on integrity, humility, and passion. Teams are distributed across North America, Europe, and India.
- **Engineering Culture**: Tackling novel problems at the intersection of NLP, deterministic execution, and enterprise scale. Tech stack includes modern AI/ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and robust backend systems.

## Sources
1. [kognitos.com](https://www.kognitos.com/) – Product overview, integrations, customer results, compliance
2. [kognitos.com/careers](https://www.kognitos.com/careers/) – Open positions, culture description
3. [kognitos.com/about-us](https://www.kognitos.com/about-us/) – Mission, vision, founder story, investor list, values
4. [builtin.com/company/kognitos](https://builtin.com/company/kognitos) – Employee count (100 total, 60 product+tech), office locations, hybrid policy, technology stack
5. [linkedin.com/company/kognitos](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kognitos) – Headquarters, industry, employee count verification

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