Account Executive, Brand & Agency (Amplify, New York)
Account Executive, Brand & Agency (Amplify)
Outbrain is seeking a results-driven Account Executive for our New York City Brand & Agency team, ready to make a difference in digital marketing. Entrepreneurially-spirited, you will be responsible for driving revenue from major brands and advertising agencies in the New York area by leveraging tools from the industry’s leading content recommendations and native advertising company.
For this position, we are committed to finding a consultative dealmaker with the ability to manage existing advertisers, source new accounts and build a revenue pipeline, turning prospects into partners. If you want to join a sales and business development team of creative, passionate people who are pushing the evolution of content marketing and native advertising, then we want to talk with you.
We provide a casual, fun, fast-paced culture that is built on top performance. Candidates should be energetic self-starters who are prepared to create new business opportunities in a dynamic environment. Our team is made up of individuals who are resourceful, bright, and proactive, and who work well both independently and as part of a fast-growing team.
Responsibilities:
- Source, pursue and close deals with major advertising agencies that are in-line with the company’s goals and capabilities.
- Prospect new business, make in-person presentations to clients, build relationships and negotiate contracts
- Manage a growing pipeline and accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked
- Work closely with sales management to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals, as well as to identify emerging trends in the marketplace
- Liaise with Client Services Managers to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful campaigns and installations
- Travel as needed to attend industry events and meet with partners
- Provide key requirements to our technical and product management teams to continually increase our value proposition to partners
- Sell multiple solutions to a given customer without confusing overall product messaging
Qualifications:
- 2-4 years of experience in digital sales, digital growth, or an agency environment.
- Experience in programmatic, paid social or search is a plus!
- Strong contacts at top brands and agencies in the New York area
- Excellent in-person presentation skills and a background in relationship-building
- Ability to independently build a large pipeline of outbound leads, pursue and close
- Solid understanding of digital marketing trends and ability to explain product benefits in detail
- Experience in structuring and negotiating deals in the digital media space
- Strong analytical skills necessary to monitor and identify campaign performance trends in data and generated reports
- BA/BS degree
About Outbrain
Outbrain is the brains—and technology—behind those recommendations that can be seen throughout online articles, helping people digitally discover the content most interesting to them. Headquartered in New York City, with a global presence across 16 offices, Outbrain was founded to narrate the web. Top publishers—including CNN, Condé Nast and Time —utilize Outbrain's technology to redefine their digital landscapes, while top marketers utilize the platform to interact with untapped audiences. Outbrain currently serves more than 308 billion monthly recommendations to readers, and is paving the way in native advertising innovations.
The brainy culture that ignites the halls of Outbrain has even been industry-recognized and awarded ‘Best Tech Work Culture’ in 2018 by Tech In Motion.
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