Institutional Sales

Kalshi
New York Office, US
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward experienced B2B financial-markets professionals comfortable with onboarding complex trading firms.

Best fit for

  • Experienced B2B financial professionals with a track record of building institutional relationships
    — “identify, develop and onboard new institutional trading teams onto Kalshi”
  • Candidates with technical integration experience in financial markets or derivatives
    — “Experience helping institutional customers through technical integrations or onboarding”
  • Individuals who thrive in a meritocratic, high-energy environment with a clear mission
    — “Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out”

Things to consider

  • In-person presence in New York is required despite the role's remote flexibility potential
    — “Willingness to work in person from our New York office”
  • High CRM management and pipeline oversight expectations are implied by the role's demands
    — “Strong organizational skills and comfort managing a high-volume CRM and sales pipeline”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to originate and develop new institutional relationships in your resume and interviews
    — “Demonstrated ability to originate and develop new commercial relationships”
  • Emphasize your experience with derivatives, margin, or clearing in your application materials
    — “Familiarity with futures, derivatives, margin or clearing”
  • Showcase your emotional intelligence and ability to build trust quickly with potential clients
    — “High EQ and an ability to build trust quickly with a wide range of customers”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • source and develop relationships with institutional trading firms
  • build and manage a large pipeline of institutional relationships
  • guide customers through onboarding and integration
  • provide exceptional ongoing service
Typical background
institutional sales experiencefinancial markets knowledgecustomer onboarding experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Institutional SalesOutbound ProspectingCustomer OnboardingSales Pipeline ManagementTechnical Integration

Preferred

NetworkingFinancial Markets KnowledgeTrading Firm RelationshipsProduct Knowledge

Stack & domain

Institutional SalesOutbound ProspectingCustomer Relationship ManagementSales ForecastingSales Pipeline ManagementProduct DemonstrationsRFP Responses

About the role

Original posting from Kalshi via Ashby

WHAT IS KALSHI?

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

  • Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
  • Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.

Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.

ROLE ROADMAP

As part of the Institutional Sales team at Kalshi, you'll identify, develop and onboard new institutional trading teams onto Kalshi. You'll guide them through integration and go-live, then own those relationships and provide the level of service sophisticated institutional customers expect. You'll be responsible for sourcing new trading firms, running institutional sales calls, managing a large pipeline, and working internally to solve onboarding and integration issues.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Source and develop relationships with institutional trading firms that could trade on Kalshi
  • Own outbound prospecting across your existing network, LinkedIn and other traditional institutional sales channels
  • Run introductory and follow-up conversations with prospective trading teams
  • Build and manage a large pipeline of institutional relationships from initial outreach through activation
  • Guide customers through onboarding, integration and go-live, coordinating closely with Kalshi's Liquidity, Product and Operations teams
  • Develop deep relationships with the trading teams you bring onto the platform and provide exceptional ongoing service
  • Help troubleshoot integration questions, product updates, errors and other issues for institutional customers
  • Re-engage firms that have stalled during onboarding and help move them toward activation
  • Monitor customer activity and hold regular check-ins to understand needs, identify issues and drive deeper engagement

WHAT YOU BRING

  • 2+ years of experience in institutional sales, financial services, brokerage, trading or another B2B financial-markets environment
  • Demonstrated ability to originate and develop new commercial relationships
  • Extremely strong professionalism and communication skills; you can credibly represent Kalshi with sophisticated institutional counterparties
  • High EQ and an ability to build trust quickly with a wide range of customers
  • Strong organizational skills and comfort managing a high-volume CRM and sales pipeline
  • Familiarity with financial markets and an ability to quickly learn derivatives and market structure
  • An existing network across proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, market makers, brokers or other institutional trading organizations
  • Experience helping institutional customers through technical integrations or onboarding
  • Familiarity with futures, derivatives, margin or clearing
  • Willingness to work in person from our New York office

PAY TRANSPARENCY DISCLOSURE

Salary Range: $130,000 - $200,000. This range reflects current market data for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and broad variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out - we're always happy to discuss.

OUR CULTURE

Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out. We dream big. We love our craft deeply and are proud of what we put out in the world. We are committed to our vision of building something big… but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.

Kalshians are Kalshi’s most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.

COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we’d love to hear from you.

Source: Kalshi careers (Ashby)

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