Sales Director - Energy Commodities Analytics

Vortexa • Houston, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Vortexa is the leading real-time energy and freight intelligence platform. We combine AI, satellite data, and proprietary vessel tracking to give the world’s most sophisticated trading and shipping teams a clearer view of global flows. We’re a venture-backed scale-up with offices in London, New York, Houston, Singapore, and beyond — and we’re growing fast.

We’re scaling fast across the Americas, and we’re hiring a Sales Director to take ownership of a defined territory — with a clear mandate to win new logos.

This is a hunter-weighted role: approximately 80% of your time will be spent originating and closing new business, with the remaining 20% spent managing a small, named book of existing accounts. You will not be a farmer with a hunting bullet point — you will be a hunter with a focused renewal/expansion responsibility.

A defining focus of this role is selling Vortexa’s API and MCP-based solutions into technical and front-office buying centers. Our SaaS platform remains the foundation of our business and you will sell it confidently — but API-led adoption is the fastest-growing part of our Americas opportunity, and we need someone who can lead with it.

Requirements

• Experience in B2B sales with a proven track record of closing new logo business in energy, commodities, financial services, or related data/SaaS markets.
• Demonstrable success selling complex, high-consideration products to sophisticated front-office buyers — traders, analysts, portfolio managers, chartering, or risk.
• Direct experience selling API, data, or developer-facing products — you’re comfortable in a discovery conversation that spans both a Head of Trading and a Head of Data Engineering.
• Track record of operating effectively with BDR and Marketing partners — you know how to brief, prioritize, and get the most from supporting functions.
• Strong commercial instincts across pipeline management, forecasting, qualification, and negotiation.
• Disciplined use of Salesforce and a structured approach to account planning.
• Excellent written and verbal English; ability to communicate clearly with both senior executives and technical end-users.

Nice To Haves

• Existing network in commodities trading, energy markets, or maritime/shipping.
• Experience selling into developer or technical buying centers (data engineering, quant research, integration teams).
• Familiarity with MCP, API monetization models, or modern data infrastructure sales motions.
• Background in vessel tracking, commodity fundamentals, or freight markets.

Responsibilities

• Originate, qualify, and close new logo opportunities across financial, energy, and shipping segments in your territory.
• Build and maintain a multi-quarter pipeline aligned to Vortexa’s Tier 1 / Tier 2 account strategy.
• Run disciplined account plans on named targets — mapping personas, identifying entry points, and orchestrating multi-threaded campaigns with your BDR, Marketing, and SA partners.
• Lead with API and MCP — identify and develop opportunities where our API and MCP server solutions are the entry point, particularly with data, quant, and engineering buying centers. This is a strategic priority for the territory.
• Sell the full Vortexa platform confidently — our SaaS product remains core to most deals, and the strongest reps will sell SaaS and API as complementary offerings, not alternatives.
• Own renewals and expansion across a small, designated set of existing accounts in partnership with Customer Success.
• Identify and convert expansion paths — new users, new use cases, new business units, API integrations — into measurable commercial outcomes.
• Manage contract risk proactively and forecast accurately.
• Maintain clean, current, and credible pipeline data in Salesforce.
• Forecast weekly with accuracy and conviction.
• Partner with Revenue Operations on territory planning, deal structuring, and pricing strategy.

Benefits

• Stock-options in a fast-growing, high-potential business
• A vibrant and diverse workplace
• An open, collaborative, and supportive working culture built on merit, which celebrates creative thinking and “getting things done.”
• The opportunity to work with AI-driven technology in a scale-up environment with commodity trading experts
• 401k with up to 2% contributions matched by Vortexa
• Private Health Insurance offered via Blue Cross Shield
• Dental and Vision cover offered via Guardian
• Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed