Mediavine is seeking a Director, Programmatic Sales to join our Revenue team. As one of the top 20 largest publishers and climbing, we’re looking for a motivated professional to deliver large-scale advertising revenue growth.
About Mediavine
Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 10,000 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.
Mission & Culture
We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is to ensure your brand and business grow in every respect.
We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.
Diversity and inclusion aren't platitudes to us; we take them seriously. Have a look at our team and read through our blog posts to learn more about our values and to discover if Mediavine is the place for you!
Position Title & Summary
The Director, Programmatic Sales is a key sales point of contact responsible for programmatic revenue growth. The ideal candidate is a motivated, self- starter, who has an understanding of direct sales and the programmatic advertising landscape. Within this role, you must be comfortable with developing relationships internally and externally, and have a track record of meeting and exceeding sales goals.
Essential responsibilities
- Own the sales cycle from beginning to end; prospecting, identifying opportunities, establishing the right connections, creating sales proposals and presentations, and ideating custom opportunities
- Participate in programmatic sales efforts to identify existing and potential advertisers KPIs; aligning them with Mediavine’s offerings
- Proactively build, maintain, and expand on sales targets, advertiser relationships, and sales opportunities
- Collaborate with Mediavine stakeholders to properly strategize pre-sale activities, execute and close opportunities
- Increase the industry presence of a premiere portfolio totaling 30 billion impressions and 150 million unique visitors per month
- Effectively develop relationships with major advertisers and agencies to generate short and long-term revenue growth
- Utilize ad technologies, programmatic setups, and analytics tools to optimize ad sales
- Required travel on an as needed basis, up to once a month for industry events and internal company retreat(s)
Requirements
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