--- title: 'VP of Sales at Farsight AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/vp-of-sales-farsight-ai-new-york-9bgwsa6h5dzf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # VP of Sales at Farsight AI - **Company:** Farsight AI - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/farsight/1b7a79a0-b24b-4f83-9833-a5f8030fee51 ## Job description ## About Us Farsight is the agentic AI platform for financial services, currently helping investment banks and private equity firms fully automate entire, highly nuanced workflows. Today, institutions will spend 80% of their time gathering information for and creating first drafts of materials by hand before iterating on and refining their decks, models, and pitches. Farsight is partnered with S&P Global and has the opportunity to shape the future of financial services! Our team comes from Evercore, General Atlantic, Amazon, Hugging Face, founding engineers of other startups, and plenty more! ## The Role Farsight has strong product-market fit, real traction at the most demanding institutions in finance, and a distribution partnership with S&P Global that puts us inside the workflow of hundreds of thousands of investment banking and private equity professionals. What we need now is someone to build the sales motion that turns that momentum into a repeatable, scalable revenue machine. As VP of Sales, you will own Farsight's revenue. You will build and lead the sales team, define the go-to-market motion, and personally close the most strategic deals. You will work directly with our CEO, the Strategy & Ops team, and our GTM team to develop the pipeline, refine the pitch, and bring in the customers that define Farsight's next chapter. This is a founding sales leadership role. The person who takes this seat will shape how Farsight goes to market, builds its sales culture, and scales from double-digit customers to hundreds. ## What You'll Do - Own Farsight's revenue number and be accountable for hitting it - Build, hire, and lead a high-performing sales team from the ground up, starting with SDRs and AEs - Personally lead and close strategic enterprise deals at bulge bracket banks, elite boutiques, and top-tier PE firms - Define and refine Farsight's sales motion, playbook, and process from first contact to close - Partner closely with the StratOps team to ensure seamless handoff from sales to customer success - Work with product and engineering to translate customer feedback into roadmap input - Develop pricing and packaging strategy in partnership with leadership - Build relationships at the most senior levels of Farsight's target accounts - Represent Farsight at industry events and in market conversations that drive awareness and pipeline - Report directly to CEO with full visibility into company strategy and direction ## What We're Looking For - 8+ years of enterprise sales experience with at least 3 years in a sales leadership role - Proven track record closing complex, high-value enterprise deals in financial services, enterprise software, or AI - Deep understanding of investment banking and private equity workflows, either from selling into this market or from direct experience in it - Experience building and scaling a sales team from early stage through growth - Exceptional relationship builder who can earn the trust of senior bankers, partners, and CIOs - Strong commercial instincts around pricing, positioning, and deal structure - Comfortable operating at a fast-moving Series A startup where you are building the playbook, not following one - NYC-based and committed to in-person collaboration Above and Beyond Qualifications - Prior experience selling AI or data products into financial services - Existing relationships at major investment banks or PE firms - Experience navigating procurement and compliance at large financial institutions - Prior experience as a first sales hire or head of sales at a startup that scaled successfully ## Compensation - Base Salary: $175,000 to $225,000. Commensurate with experience - On-Target Earnings (OTE): $350,000 to $450,000 (60/40 base-to-variable split) - Variable Structure: - Commission tied to ARR closed - Accelerators for performance above quota - Renewal and expansion bonuses tied to net revenue retention - Equity: Meaningful early-stage package with standard vesting (4 year/1-year cliff) - Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance - Unlimited PTO ## About Farsight AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Farsight AI is an agentic AI platform that automates the creation of complex financial deliverables—such as slide decks, models, and memos—for top-tier investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and wealth managers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Samir Dutta (CEO), Noah Faro (CTO), Kunal Tangri (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered financial services software, Fintech, Enterprise AI - **Target customers**: B2B, exclusively serving high-performing financial institutions: Investment Banks, Private Equity firms, Hedge Funds, and Wealth & Asset Management firms. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To become the AI layer used by every top-tier financial institution, replacing manual work with AI workflows that automate deliverables, surface insights, and give teams back time to focus on strategy. ## Products & Services - **Farsight Platform (Agentic AI Workflows)**: An end-to-end AI system that automates the production of critical client-facing documents. It replicates a firm’s unique voice, formatting, and analytical style to produce complete deliverables like pitch decks, financial models, investment memos, and portfolio analyses. The platform offers proactive strategic suggestions based on CRM data and past deals. - **Freeform**: A natural language slide editor that allows users to generate precisely-formatted financial deliverables from a single prompt, grounded in deeper analysis and richer narrative. - **Deployment Options**: Offers flexible, high-security deployment including a Farsight-Hosted VPC, Customer-Cloud, and On-Premise options, with SOC-2 compliance and full end-to-end encryption. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$16.0M** (Series A, led by SignalFire, July 2025). The company reports that customers save **90%** of time on core deliverables and generate **$10M+** in new opportunities. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: SignalFire (lead, Series A), Intel Ignite (non-equity assistance). The company also acquired Presentable AI in August 2025. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+192.9% year-over-year** (to 31 employees). The company has **10 active job postings** (up +233.3% YoY). It acquired Presentable AI in August 2025 and launched a new product, Freeform, in May 2026. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-Specific AI**: Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Farsight is purpose-built for the nuanced, high-stakes workflows of finance, replicating a firm’s unique voice, formatting, and analytical style. - **End-to-End Automation**: The platform produces complete, client-ready documents (decks, models, memos) rather than fragments or text, dramatically reducing production time from weeks to minutes. - **Best-in-Class Security**: Offers SOC-2 compliance, full end-to-end encryption, and flexible deployment (VPC, Customer-Cloud, On-Premise) with a strict policy of no model training on customer data. - **Proactive Intelligence**: The system surfaces insights and generates strategic materials proactively based on CRM data and past deals, acting as a "sharpest team member." ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build out the "operating system for finance" with new features like Freeform and the integration of acquired Presentable AI. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, and operations to scale the team (currently 31 employees, growing rapidly). - **Market Penetration**: Deepening its footprint within top-tier financial institutions and expanding its suite of agentic workflows to cover more use cases across investment banking, private equity, and asset management. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Role**: Employees work on a platform that is redefining how the world’s top financial institutions generate insight and drive outcomes, directly impacting multi-million dollar deals. - **Culture & Team**: A cross-disciplinary team of builders with deep roots in finance, enterprise AI, and product-first thinking, spun out of MIT. The team includes alumni from Goldman Sachs, Amazon Web Services, and Hugging Face. - **Work Policy**: **Hybrid** – Employees work 4 days a week in the New York City office and work from home on Fridays. - **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a high-growth phase (nearly 200% headcount growth YoY) with significant funding and a clear product-market fit, offering strong career advancement opportunities. - **Technology Stack**: Engineers work with modern tools including TypeScript, Python, React, AWS, and Slack. ## Sources 1. [farsight-ai.com](https://farsight-ai.com/) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/farsight-ai) 3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/farsight) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/farsight-ai) 5. 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