Advertising Sales Executive
LeafLink is seeking an experienced Advertising Sales Executive to join our fast growing team. In this role you will be responsible for communicating with and selling paid ads, paid emails, and sponsorship opportunities to the largest cannabis brands in the industry and creating a network effect across the LeafLink platform, setting a new standard on how the industry advertises. This role is highly collaborative, requires creative thinking, sales expertise, and an understanding of all product offerings and platform features on LeafLink with a focus on our advertising and sponsorship offerings. This role reports directly to our Vice President of Sales. You need to be a self-starter who is comfortable with change, enjoys a very fast pace, and can juggle many tasks and deadlines.
LeafLink is a SaaS marketplace platform that provides licensed cannabis dispensaries the ability to order from their favorite brands, as well as a suite of software tools for those brands to manage their operations and scale. With 2,500+ dispensaries and more than 700+ leading brands in Colorado, Washington, California, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, LeafLink is setting the industry standard for how cannabis brands and retailers work together. Our team, backed by funding from leading VC's, is poised to define the cannabis wholesale market. LeafLink was recently named one of FastCompany's 'Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise' for 2018, joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare and we are hungry for more!
What You’ll Do:
- Own all Services Marketplace and LeafLink Local Sponsorships KPI's
- Call clients across multiple markets to sell advertising opportunities
- Work with product team to constantly streamline our offerings
- Aggregate and analyze data to effectively strategize with C-Levels at cannabis brands and other LeafLink partners
- Create and recommend new sales processes and product/technology improvements to benefit the advertising team
Who You Are:
- Have 4+ years of advertising sales experience
- Have sold into SMB’s and Mid Market Companies
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high growth, rapidly changing environment that requires tenacity to exploit opportunities and a steady demeanor to handle challenges
- You are the poster child for startup hustle: change is your only constant, no challenge is too big, and no task is too small
- Self-motivated and excited by the potential to own what you do, you have the willingness to learn and adapt as needed
- You work well independently as well as with other members of the team, both in person and remotely
- You have excellent presentation and communication skills, are outgoing and sociable, and enjoy meeting new people
- You are a multi-tasker and connector, as well as an organized operator who executes on both internal and external responsibilities
- You have knowledge of key project management concepts including phases, plans, deliverables, scope, and tasks
- You have excellent verbal and written communications skills and are a proficient user of Google Cloud Offerings.