We create a safe space for communities to thrive.

OpenWeb is on a mission to improve the quality of conversations online — and build an internet where content creators of every kind are empowered to truly own their audience relationships & thrive independently.

We build technologies that are rooted in healthy conversations, transparent first-party data relationships and mutual economic prosperity for all stakeholders. Wherever there is a content creator to empower, a conversation to protect or a community to host — OpenWeb will be there.

Today, OpenWeb partners with more than 1,000 top-tier publishers (including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, News Corp, Verizon Media, CBS, Fox News, Hearst, Refinery 29 and more) and hosts 100 million monthly active users.

Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 220 employees between New York City and Tel Aviv, Kiev, San Diego and Canada, and is backed by Insight Venture Partners, Georgian, Entrée Capital, AltaIR Capital, The New York Times, Samsung Next, Dentsu, Norma Investments, and ScaleUp

Together, we are empowering individuals to take action, and demand more from one another. We’re crafting technology that naturally brings people together and fosters healthy discussion—so they have more dinner-table talks and less shouting matches online. It starts with us. Let’s take the web back from the trolls - together. Are you in?

Our BD team is passionate about bringing new Publishers our innovative and useful products to help save the publishing Industry. We’re a collaborative and energetic business development team, focused on helping Publishers grow their business. You will be responsible for educating, consulting, and prospecting new Publishers. Your extraordinary communication skills help you connect with Publisher via email and phone - quickly establishing trust and rapport.

What You’ll Do:

• Cultivate and expand professional relationships with Tier-1 media publishers across the globe in order to sell OpenWeb's community engagement software platform and drive the partner’s revenue base
• Run the full sales life-cycle for your prospective deals from initial call, to product demo, through deal signing. We encourage our team to meet their prospective partners in person and to bring those partners to our office as well!
• Define target markets/verticals, partner with sales operations on lead generation processes and pipelines, and document interactions and follow-ups in Salesforce
• Partner with internal Product, Partner Management, and Monetization teams to develop and introduce new revenue opportunities into the market and pitch white-labeled solutions to prospective partners
• Help to co-define Business Development team processes, goals and KPI’s as our growing startup continues to scale

What'll You'll Bring:

• Demonstrated SaaS, ad-tech, or publisher sales experience and a proven track record of achieving annual business development revenue targets
• Ability to navigate complex sales organizations and build world-class business relationships with senior executives in order to execute partner deals
• A thorough knowledge of digital media, advertising technologies and SaaS business models is a major plus
• Solutions selling mindset and approach to relationship building -  we’re here to solve major industry problems with technical solutions
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, goal and target-oriented executor combined with a team-first mentality - our Business Development team regularly works together as a team to close deals for each other!

What You'll Get:

The compensation package for the VP, Business Development role includes an annual salary ranging between $175,000-$200,000 (based on candidate’s experience and skill set). Additionally, this role is eligible for quarterly commissions, equity and benefits including:

• Premium health benefits (subsidized in %100 for employees) including comprehensive vision, medical, dental through Aetna.
• 401k + matching up to 4%.
• Uncapped PTO policy!
• Phone reimbursement  
• Telehealth plan with 24/7 access to a dedicated team of physical and mental healthcare providers.
• Company sponsored Life and Accidental insurance.
• Team events, holiday parties and outings
• Career growth & ownership
• Amazing coworkers!

The OpenWeb Culture

We offer a dynamic and unconventional work environment that spans from NYC to Tel Aviv, bringing together a diverse group of world class and high-caliber techies, wordsmiths, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers. We empower every individual across our global team to be a catalyst for change and strive to create a work environment where you can have the utmost autonomy over your role and projects, from start to finish.  If you want to join an innovative tech company where you can challenge yourself, have the freedom to own your work, and make a lasting impact, then you have a spot within our growing community!

OpenWeb is committed to building diverse teams and upholding an equal employment workplace that is free from discrimination. We hire amazing individuals regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, medical conditions, genetic information, disability, or Veteran status.

Build your skills with us as you build a better web for everyone. Join us! Also, we care about your privacy! Please take a moment to review OpenWeb’s Privacy Practice