FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
Are you ready to take your sales career to the next level by leading one of FICO’s most critical client accounts? This role is your chance to lead a cornerstone account for a global leader in analytics and decisioning technology. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of a premier client’s business while achieving significant personal and professional growth. With over 60 years of consistent growth, FICO’s world-class solutions empower thousands of businesses worldwide to make smarter fraud, risk, and customer management decisions. As a senior member of our Sales organization, you will leverage your deep expertise, strategic acumen, and consultative-selling prowess to strengthen and expand a marquee client relationship. This is not just another sales role—it’s an opportunity to make a significant impact by partnering with a global financial institution to address their most urgent challenges with FICO’s advanced technologies. If you’re a results-driven, senior-level professional with a passion for delivering innovative solutions and driving exceptional outcomes, we want to hear from you.
What You’ll Contribute
Strategic Leadership: Build and nurture relationships with C-suite and senior client stakeholders to uncover and address their most critical business challenges, demonstrating the value of FICO’s solutions at every turn.
Solution Innovation: Collaborate with internal teams across sales, product, delivery, and marketing to design tailored, enterprise-grade solutions that align with client needs and long-term strategies.
Complex Deal Structuring: Lead high-stakes negotiations for multi-million-dollar contracts, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes that protect and expand FICO’s footprint within the account.
Client Advocacy: Serve as the voice of the client within FICO, influencing product roadmaps and solution strategies to address evolving market demands.
Business Growth: Develop and execute comprehensive business plans that drive account expansion and long-term profitability, while achieving quarterly and annual sales targets with significant upside potential.
Market Leadership: Represent FICO as a trusted advisor, staying ahead of industry trends and positioning the company as the go-to partner for advanced analytics and decisioning solutions.
What We’re Seeking
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.
Growth Mindset: A Passion to learn and educate customers and FICO colleagues through presentations, and conversations. Strong soft skills, and 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.
Our Offer to You
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: $80,500 to $126,500 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
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Why Make a Move to FICO?
At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.
FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:
• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
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FICO at a Glance
FICO’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries. The company provides analytics software and tools used across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations. Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption — such as the FICO® Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO solutions leverage open-source standards and cloud computing to maximize flexibility, speed deployment and reduce costs. The company also helps millions of people manage their personal credit health.
Founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions such as credit scoring that have made credit more widely available, not just in the United States but around the world. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind decision management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high–volume decisions.
A Global Presence
FICO has offices throughout the world serving industries including financial services, health care, insurance, automotive, public sector, retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, high tech and utilities.
Fortune 500 Clients
FICO clients include more than half of the top 100 banks in the world, more than 600 personal and commercial line insurers in North America and Europe including the top 10 US personal lines insurers, 400+ retailers and general merchandisers, including one-third of the top 100 U.S. retailers, 95 of the 100 largest financial institutions in the U.S., and all the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers and more.