Account Executive SLED (East)

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky ineffective and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster smarter and more accurate.

We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures Andreessen Horowitz NYCA and Max Levchin.

We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch CNBC Bloomberg Forbes Business Insider PYMNTS American Banker LendIt and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50. We have also been named a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner. Last but not least we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.

SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin San Francisco New York City Seattle Los Angeles and Chicago in the U.S. and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.

As a SLED Account Executive you will be responsible for selling SentiLink solutions to State Agencies Local Government and Higher Education. You’ll do this by helping them solve their fraud and identity problems using our products and developing long-term relationships with our partners. Because we are a startup we expect you to help build our company by wearing several hats as we scale.

This is a remote US-based role.

• Proactively reach out to prospective partners to discover SLED Agencies that we can serve in your geographic region

• Own the sales process by leading meetings building relationships marshaling SentiLink resources to deliver solutions preparing analytical business cases and closing legal agreements

• Navigate complex organizations and procurement cycles to align with decision makers and build champions within prospects and partners

• Continue to drive value to our partners post-close by owning relationships and helping our partners be successful with our solutions

• Represent SentiLink in accordance with our corporate values at all times

• 5+ years of successful experience in sales and business development

• Track record of successfully employing a top-down sales motion for complex technical products

• Experience selling into State Government Local Government and Higher Education

• Familiarity with identity verification or other fraud detection solutions (or a strong willingness to learn)

• Self-motivated detail-oriented with a big appetite for winning and a hustling mentality

• Experience in fraud identity verification or another analytical discipline in program integrity is a plus

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

• $300000-$350000/year OTE + equity + benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents

• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)

• Flexible paid time off

• Regular company-wide in-person events

• Home office stipend and more!

• Follow Through

• Deep Understanding

• Whatever It Takes

• Do Something Smart

What We Do

SentiLink is the leading fraud intelligence company providing financial institutions and fintechs with purpose-built solutions for identity verification and fraud prevention. Our products detect synthetic fraud identity theft and hard-to-detect first-party fraud in real time — helping partners stop losses before they happen while approving more legitimate customers.Founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld creators of the risk and fraud systems at Affirm SentiLink was built on a simple premise: to truly stop fraud you have to deeply understand it. That belief shapes everything from the expert human intelligence that feeds our models to the way we work with our partners. We don't call them clients or customers we call them partners because that's genuinely how we think of them.Today SentiLink processes 3M+ identity verifications per day for 500+ financial institutions including 13 of the top 15 U.S. banks and 50+ fintech unicorns. We've raised $85M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz Craft Ventures and NYCA Partners.

Why Work With Us

At SentiLink deep understanding isn't just a value it's a company-wide expectation. For example our Revenue Accounting Manager can walk you through SSN windows. That's not an exception; that's the norm. You'll collaborate closely move fast and do work that genuinely matters.

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