Business Insider is hiring a senior account executive in San Francisco
This is a great position for someone that is creative and passionate about storytelling, technology, and digital media. Success will be highly dependent upon the candidate's willingness to understand marketing strategies, navigate prospective accounts, and articulate the Business Insider value proposition to regional clients and agencies, and closing deals. Knowledge of both B2B and B2C markets as well programmatic is important for all candidates.
The ideal candidate for this job will be familiar with BI's content, audience, and the constantly changing digital sales landscape.
Responsibilities:
- Achieve revenue goals on a quarterly / annual basis
- Drive early stage opportunities through the sales cycle
- Seek out and develop relationships with clients; build deeper relationships with existing contacts
- Communicate effectively in writing and over the phone
- Accurately manage and forecast sales pipeline
Qualifications:
- Extensive digital media sales experience, including mobile, digital video, social, programmatic, and data
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Great attitude and interest in learning new skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to thrive in an innovative environment
- Deep network of advertiser and agency relationships with B2B and B2C clients
- Drive, determination, consistency, and passion
- Salesforce a plus
- 6 years of work experience and meeting quotas / sales goals each quarter
If this is the right gig for you, please apply online and tell us a bit about why you're a good fit with this role. Thanks in advance.