We are Vitesse – the treasury and payment partner of choice for insurance.
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About Us
At Vitesse, we're more than just a payments platform – we're the trusted financial infrastructure connecting the global insurance ecosystem. Tailor-made for insurers, brokers, MGAs, and TPAs, our unified platform optimises claims funds, enables real-time global payments, and delivers full financial control. Our impact is real: over $20 billion in payments across 200+ countries, hundreds of millions returned to insurers’ balance sheets, and counting. We’re licensed in the UK (FCA), Europe (DNB), and New York (NYDFS), with over 260 amazing colleagues worldwide. With $93 million recently raised in Series C funding from KKR, our journey is just beginning, and our ambitions are sky-high.
Headquartered in the heart of London and expanding across Europe and the US, Vitesse is where your ideas power tomorrow’s insurance solutions. Are you ready to make a difference? You're in the right place.
About the Role
Reporting into our Pre-Sales Lead, you will play a pivotal role in Vitesse’s sales and product development processes. You will partner with our sales, product, and engineering teams to deliver compelling, value-driven demonstrations and technical presentations. You will be responsible for understanding customer needs, positioning our solutions effectively, and driving engagement with prospects and partners. You will also collaborate closely with the product team to establish a continuous feedback loop, aligning current product functionality, upcoming feature releases, and customer requirements to drive product improvements.
This role requires a blend of technical expertise, consultative skills, and business acumen to help prospects and customers understand how our platform can solve their unique challenges.
Responsibilities:
Leading discovery sessions to gain a comprehensive understanding of our customers’ needs, business objectives, and internal operations.
Participating in all stages of the sales lifecycle, including leading pitches, product demonstrations and technical workshops
Establishing continuous collaboration and feedback loops with Product Owners to ensure alignment with customer needs and product improvements.
Working with each product team to ensure feature demos and product collateral support your needs
Leveraging your deep functional and technical understanding of our products and their benefits, along with knowledge of our customers, you must be able to:
Carefully choose which aspects or benefits of our product to highlight/downplay in each customer engagement, ensuring the message resonates, and the customer is not overwhelmed with complexity
Propose (in consultation with the Product team) creative uses, adaptations, and customizations of our products to better meet individual customer needs (with a view towards reusability for future customers as well, as much as possible)
Manage and deliver relevant customer feedback to Product Ownership teams to aid in roadmap planning
Work closely with senior stakeholders to define the business value proposition, target audience, and competitive landscape
Ensure communications and sales collateral clearly explain the Vitesse value proposition and drive the right level of understanding and performance.
Contribute to proposal development, working closely with sales and product teams to draft technical responses and customize solutions for potential clients.
Role requirements:
Experience working for a SaaS (Software as a Service) company is essential, having served the insurance industry is highly desirable
Ability to demonstrate deep functional and technical understanding of an existing SaaS platform operating in the treasury, claims management, business card or high-value payments markets
Experience delivering value-centric presentations (virtually and in-person) directly to key decision makers
Experience working closely with sales teams and participating in all aspects of the sales cycle
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and key decision makers
Ability to work cross-functionally with product, sales, senior leadership, success, and solutions teams
Meticulous attention to detail, especially when creating external collateral (e.g. presentations, partner decks)
Stellar organizational and time management skills
Experience attending networking events, expos and trade shows
Experience presenting to large audiences and acting as an ambassador for the company and its solutions
We understand that everyone has their own work rhythm and believe in a flexible working schedule - at Vitesse you’re expected to work 35 hours a week.
Our Values – or what we call “Vitesse at Our Best”
The Vitesse values are a true reflection of what it takes to thrive in our business, so it’s important to us that any employee who joins our business is aligned with these 3 attributes
Confident Humility
We believe the best ideas come from listening and learning. We leave ego at the door, ask for help when we need it, and celebrate collective success. When one of us wins, we all do.
Driven to Succeed
We’re ambitious about the opportunity ahead and committed to achieving it together. We hold ourselves to high standards, take pride in what we deliver, and push for meaningful outcomes for our customers, our partners, and each other.
Tenacious Responsibility
We take ownership of our work, our decisions, and our results. We face challenges with resilience, learn from setbacks, and see things through to completion. Because doing the right thing matters.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
We commit to creating an inclusive environment that enables everyone to perform at their best, where we recognise the rights of all individuals to mutual respect and where there is an unbiased acceptance of others. Our policies and practices aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly and with dignity and respect. If you require any interview adjustments please contact Clara Moretti-Parker on Find more English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow